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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 …
From Schneier on Security
The Future of Drone Warfare
Ukraine is using $400 drones to destroy tanks: Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Scandinavian Alcohol Tax
The islands of Åland are an important tax hack: Although Åland is part of the Republic of Finland, it has its own autonomous parliament. In areas where Åland has...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On the Ugliness of Squid Fishing
And seafood in general: A squid ship is a bustling, bright, messy place. The scene on deck looks like a mechanic’s garage where an oil change has gone terribly...
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Messaging Service Wiretap Discovered through Expired TLS Cert
Fascinating story of a covert wiretap that was discovered because of an expired TLS certificate: The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the...
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New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public...
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Microsoft is Soft-Launching Security Copilot
Microsoft has announced an early access program for its LLM-based security chatbot assistant: Security Copilot. I am curious whether this thing is actually useful...
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Child Exploitation and the Crypto Wars
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE)...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Why There Are No Giant Squid in Aquariums
They’re too big and we can’t recreate their habitat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
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AI and US Election Rules
If an AI breaks the rules for you, does that count as breaking the rules? This is the essential question being taken up by the Federal Election Commission thisAI...
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Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction
Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach...
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Coin Flips Are Biased
Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence
Article about squid intelligence. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog...
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Hacking the High School Grading System
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that...
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Model Extraction Attack on Neural Networks
Adi Shamir et al. have a new model extraction attack on neural networks: Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models Abstract: Billions of...
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AI Risks
There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines...
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Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia
Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election: Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake...
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Political Disinformation and AI
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other...
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Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth
Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take...
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