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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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Superhero Movies and Security Lessons
A paper I co-wrote was just published in Security Journal: "Superheroes on screen: real life lessons for security debates": Abstract: Superhero films and episodic...
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On Chinese "Spy Trains"
The trade war with China has reached a new industry: subway cars. Congress is considering legislation that would prevent the world's largest train maker, the Chinese...
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Ineffective Package Tracking Facilitates Fraud
This article discusses an e-commerce fraud technique in the UK. Because the Royal Mail only tracks packages to the postcode -- and not to the address - it's possible...
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Russians Hack FBI Comms System
Yahoo News reported that the Russians have successfully targeted an FBI communications system: American officials discovered that the Russians had dramatically...
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A Feminist Take on Information Privacy
Maria Farrell has a really interesting framing of information/device privacy: What our smartphones and relationship abusers share is that they both exert power...
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France Outlines Its Approach to Cyberwar
In a document published earlier this month (in French), France described the legal framework in which it will conduct cyberwar operations. Lukasz Olejnik explains...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Piglet Squid
Another piglet squid video. 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 posting...
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Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago
Earlier this month I made fun of a company called Crown-Sterling, for...for...for being a company that deserves being made fun of. This morning, the company announced...
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New Biometrics
This article discusses new types of biometrics under development, including gait, scent, heartbeat, microbiome, and butt shape (no, really)....
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Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
I previously blogged about a Black Hat talk that disclosed security vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787 software. Ben Rothke concludes that the vulnerabilities are...
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I'm Looking to Hire a Strategist to Help Figure Out Public-Interest Tech
I am in search of a strategic thought partner: a person who can work closely with me over the next 9 to 12 months in assessing what's needed to advance the practice...
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Cracking Forgotten Passwords
Expandpass is a string expansion program. It's "useful for cracking passwords you kinda-remember." You tell the program what you remember about the password and...
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Another Side Channel in Intel Chips
Not that serious, but interesting: In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at University College London on September 23, 2019. I'm speaking at World's Top 50...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How Scientists Captured the Giant Squid Video
In June, I blogged about a video of a live juvenile giant squid. Here's how that video was captured. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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When Biology Becomes Software
All of life is based on the coordinated action of genetic parts (genes and their controlling sequences) found in the genomes (the complete DNA sequence) of organisms...
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Smart Watches and Cheating on Tests
The Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice in the UK has recommended that all watches be banned from exam rooms, basically because it's becoming very...
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Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud
This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent...
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More on Law Enforcement Backdoor Demands
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy convened an Encryption Working Group to attempt...
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