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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Metaphors of Surveillance
There's a new study looking at the metaphors we use to describe surveillance. Over 62 days between December and February, we combed through 133 articles by 105...
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Overreacting to Risk
This is a crazy overreaction: A 19-year-old man was caught on camera urinating in a reservoir that holds Portland's drinking water Wednesday, according to city...
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Tails
Nice article on the Tails stateless operating system. I use it. Initially I would boot my regular computer with Tails on a USB stick, but I went out and bought...
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Book Title
I previously posted that I am writing a book on security and power. Here are some title suggestions: Permanent Record: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and...
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Schneier Speaking Schedule: April–May
Here's my upcoming speaking schedule for April and May: Stanford Law School on April 15. Brown University in Providence, RI -- two times -- on April 24. The Global...
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Schneier Talks and Interviews
Here are three articles about me from the last month. Also these three A/V links....
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Auditing TrueCrypt
Recently, Matthew Green has been leading an independent project to audit TrueCrypt. Phase I, a source code audit by iSEC Partners, is complete. Next up is Phase...
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GoGo Wireless Adds Surveillance Capabilities for Government
The important piece of this story is not that GoGo complies with the law, but that it goes above and beyond what is required by law. It has voluntarily decided...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bronze Giant Squid Sculpture
A little too big for my house....
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More on Heartbleed
This is an update to my earlier post. Cloudflare is reporting that its very difficult, if not practically impossible, to steal SSL private keys with this attack...
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Police Disabling Their own Voice Recorders
This is not a surprise: The Los Angeles Police Commission is investigating how half of the recording antennas in the Southeast Division went missing, seemingly...
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Heartbleed
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: "The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions...
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"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't
This headline is provocative: "Human biology inspires 'unbreakable' encryption." The article is similarly nonsensical: Researchers at Lancaster University, UK have...
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The Youngest Security Researcher
Five-year-old finds login vulnerability in Microsoft Xbox....
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Mass Surveillance by Eavesdropping on Web Cookies
Interesting research: Abstract: We investigate the ability of a passive network observer to leverage third-party HTTP tracking cookies for mass surveillance. If...
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Ephemeral Apps
Ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, Wickr and Frankly, all of which advertise that your photo, message or update will only be accessible for a short period...
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Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest
As you might expect, this year's contest has the NSA as the villain: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous surveillance...
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