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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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The NSA's Domestic Surveillance Centers
The Intercept has a long story about the NSA's domestic interception points. Includes some new Snowden documents....
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Beating Facial Recognition Software with Face Makeup
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don't work with Juggalo makeup....
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California Passes New Privacy Law
The California legislature unanimously passed the strongest data privacy law in the nation. This is great news, but I have a lot of reservations. The Internet tech...
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Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Fried Squid with Turmeric
Good-looking recipe. 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 guidelines...
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Conservation of Threat
Here's some interesting research about how we perceive threats. Basically, as the environment becomes safer we basically manufacture new threats. From an essay...
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Manipulative Social Media Practices
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published an excellent report on the deceptive practices tech companies use to trick people into giving up their privacy. From...
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IEEE Statement on Strong Encryption vs. Backdoors
The IEEE came out in favor of strong encryption: IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications...
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Bypassing Passcodes in iOS
Last week, a story was going around explaining how to brute-force an iOS password. Basically, the trick was to plug the phone into an external keyboard and trying...
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Secure Speculative Execution
We're starting to see research into designing speculative execution systems that avoid Spectre- and Meltdown-like security problems. Here's one. I don't know if...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Capturing the Giant Squid on Video
In this 2013 TED talk, oceanographer Edith Widder explains how her team captured the giant squid on video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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The Effects of Iran's Telegram Ban
The Center for Human Rights in Iran has released a report outlining the effect's of that country's ban on Telegram, a secure messaging app used by about half of...
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Domain Name Stealing at Gunpoint
I missed this story when it came around last year: someone tried to steal a domain name at gunpoint. He was just sentenced to 20 years in jail....
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Algeria Shut Down the Internet to Prevent Students from Cheating on Exams
Algeria shut the Internet down nationwide to prevent high-school students from cheating on their exams. The solution in New South Wales, Australia was to ban smartphones...
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Perverse Vulnerability from Interaction between 2-Factor Authentication and iOS AutoFill
Apple is rolling out an iOS security usability feature called Security code AutoFill. The basic idea is that the OS scans incoming SMS messages for security codes...
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Free Societies are at a Disadvantage in National Cybersecurity
Jack Goldsmith and Stuart Russell just published an interesting paper, making the case that free and democratic nations are at a structural disadvantage in nation...
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Ridiculously Insecure Smart Lock
Tapplock sells an "unbreakable" Internet-connected lock that you can open with your fingerprint. It turns out that: The lock broadcasts its Bluetooth MAC address...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Week on Science Friday
It's Cephalopod Week! "Three hearts, eight arms, can't lose." 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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Thomas Dullien on Complexity and Security
For many years, I have said that complexity is the worst enemy of security. At CyCon earlier this month, Thomas Dullien gave an excellent talk on the subject with...
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