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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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ACLU on the GCHQ Backdoor Proposal
Back in January, two senior GCHQ officials proposed a specific backdoor for communications systems. It was universally derided as unworkable -- by me, as well....
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Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery
Eli Sugarman of the Hewlettt Foundation laments about the sorry state of cybersecurity imagery: The state of cybersecurity imagery is, in a word, abysmal. A simple...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid in Mexico is Getting Smaller
The Humbolt squid are getting smaller: Rawley and the other researchers found a flurry of factors that drove the jumbo squid's demise. The Gulf of California historically...
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Insider Logic Bombs
Add to the "not very smart criminals" file: According to court documents, Tinley provided software services for Siemens' Monroeville, PA offices for nearly ten...
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Software Developers and Security
According to a survey: "68% of the security professionals surveyed believe it's a programmer's job to write secure code, but they also think less than half of developers...
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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Speaking at Fordham University in New...
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Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats
The French army is going to put together a team of science fiction writers to help imagine future threats. Leaving aside the question of whether science fiction...
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Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects
More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Mural
Large squid mural in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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John Paul Stevens Was a Cryptographer
I didn't know that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens "was also a cryptographer for the Navy during World War II." He was a proponent of individual privacy...
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Identity Theft on the Job Market
Identity theft is getting more subtle: "My job application was withdrawn by someone pretending to be me": When Mr Fearn applied for a job at the company he didn't...
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Zoom Vulnerability
The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer's camera. It's a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact...
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Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
Motherboard got its hands on Palantir's Gotham user's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police...
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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 Black Hat USA 2019 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, August 7 and Thurdsay, August 8,...
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Friday Squid Blogging: When the Octopus and Squid Lost Their Shells
Cephalopod ancestors once had shells. When did they lose them? With the molecular clock technique, which allowed him to use DNA to map out the evolutionary history...
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Clickable Endnotes to Click Here to Kill Everybody
In Click Here to Kill Everybody, I promised clickable endnotes. They're finally available....
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Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Has Quantum Encryption Policy
At least one presidential candidate has a policy about quantum computing and encryption. It has two basic planks. One: fund quantum-resistant encryption standards...
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Resetting Your GE Smart Light Bulb
If you need to reset the software in your GE smart light bulb -- firmware version 2.8 or later -- just follow these easy instructions: Start with your bulb off...
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