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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Perfume
It's not perfume for squids. Nor is it perfume made from squids. It's a perfume called Squid, "inspired by life in the sea." As usual, you can also use this squid...
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Default Password for GPS Trackers
Many GPS trackers are shipped with the default password 123456. Many users don't change them. We just need to eliminate default passwords. This is an easy win.....
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The Doghouse: Crown Sterling
A decade ago, the Doghouse was a regular feature in both my email newsletter Crypto-Gram and my blog. In it, I would call out particularly egregious -- and amusing...
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Credit Card Privacy
Good article in the Washington Post on all the surveillance associated with credit card use....
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Massive iPhone Hack Targets Uyghurs
China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. This story broke in waves, the first wave being about the iPhone. Earlier...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Why Mexican Jumbo Squid Populations Have Declined
A group of scientists conclude that it's shifting weather patterns and ocean conditions. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave
Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy...
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AI Emotion-Detection Arms Race
Voice systems are increasingly using AI techniques to determine emotion. A new paper describes an AI-based countermeasure to mask emotion in spoken words. Their...
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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's...
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The Threat of Fake Academic Research
Interesting analysis of the possibility, feasibility, and efficacy of deliberately fake scientific research, something I had previously speculated about....
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Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There's now an app that can detect them: The team from the University of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vulnerabilities in Squid Server
It's always nice when I can combine squid and security: Multiple versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are currently...
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License Plate "NULL"
There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate "NULL." The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000. Although the initial...
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Modifying a Tesla to Become a Surveillance Platform
From DefCon: At the Defcon hacker conference today, security researcher Truman Kain debuted what he calls the Surveillance Detection Scout. The DIY computer fits...
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Google Finds 20-Year-Old Microsoft Windows Vulnerability
There's no indication that this vulnerability was ever used in the wild, but the code it was discovered in -- Microsoft's Text Services Framework -- has been around...
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Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is...
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Influence Operations Kill Chain
Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Robot Squid Propulsion
Interesting research: The squid robot is powered primarily by compressed air, which it stores in a cylinder in its nose (do squids have noses?). The fins and arms...
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