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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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Building Smarter Ransomware
Matthew Green and students speculate on what truly well-designed ransomware system could look like: Most modern ransomware employs a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin...
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Howard Schmidt
Longtime Internet security-policy pioneer Howard Schmidt died on Friday. He will be missed....
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Uber Uses Ubiquitous Surveillance to Identify and Block Regulators
The New York Times reports that Uber developed apps that identified and blocked government regulators using the app to find evidence of illegal behavior: Yet using...
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Friday Squid Blogging: When Squid Evolved
Squid evolved during an "evolutionary war" -- the Mesozoic Marine Revolution -- about 100 million years ago. Research paper. As usual, you can also use this squid...
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Me at the RSA Conference
This is my talk at the RSA Conference last month. It's on regulation and the Internet of Things, along the lines of this essay. I am slowly meandering around this...
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Jumping Air Gaps with Blinking Lights and Drones
Researchers have demonstrated how a malicious piece of software in an air-gapped computer can communicate with a nearby drone using a blinking LED on the computer...
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Buzzword Watch: Prosilience
Summer Fowler at CMU has invented a new word: prosilience: I propose that we build operationally PROSILIENT organizations. If operational resilience, as we like...
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Botnets
Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were breaking into computers over the Internet and controlling them en masse from centralized...
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"Proof Mode" for your Smartphone Camera
ProofMode is an app for your smartphone that adds data to the photos you take to prove that they are real and unaltered: On the technical front, what the app is...
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EU Still Concerned about Windows 10 Privacy Settings
We all should be concerned about the privacy settings in Windows 10. And we should be glad that the EU has the regulatory authority to do something about it....
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Adm. Rogers Talks about Buying Cyberweapons
At a talk last week, the head of US Cyber Command and the NSA Mike Rogers talked about the US buying cyberweapons from arms manufacturers. "In the application of...
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A Survey of Propaganda
This is an excellent survey article on modern propaganda techniques, how they work, and how we might defend ourselves against them. Cory Doctorow summarizes the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Short Story
A short SF story in a tweet. 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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My TEDMED Talk on Medical Data Privacy
Last November, I gave a talk at the TEDMED Conference on health and medical data privacy. The talk is online...
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Palantir and the NSA
The Intercept has a long article on the relationship between Palantir Technologies and the NSA, based on the Snowden documents....
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SHA-1 Collision Found
The first collision in the SHA-1 hash function has been found. This is not a surprise. We've all expected this for over a decade, watching computing power increase...
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NSA Using Cyberattack for Defense
These days, it's rare that we learn something new from the Snowden documents. But Ben Buchanan found something interesting. The NSA penetrates enemy networks in...
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German Government Classifies Doll as Illegal Spyware
This is interesting: The My Friend Cayla doll, which is manufactured by the US company Genesis Toys and distributed in Europe by Guildford-based Vivid Toy Group...
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