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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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Defense Against Doxing
A decade ago, I wrote about the death of ephemeral conversation. As computers were becoming ubiquitous, some unintended changes happened, too. Before computers,...
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Google Discloses Details of an Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability
Google's Project Zero is serious about releasing the details of security vulnerabilities 90 days after they alert the vendors, even if they're unpatched. It just...
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More on the CIA Document Leak
If I had to guess right now, I'd say the documents came from an outsider and not an insider. My reasoning: One, there is absolutely nothing illegal in the contents...
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The US Has Been Conducting Offensive Cyberattacks against North Korea
The New York Times is reporting that the US has been conducting offensive cyberattacks against North Korea, in an effort to delay its nuclear weapons program......
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WikiLeaks Releases CIA Hacking Tools
WikiLeaks just released a cache of 8,761 classified CIA documents from 2012 to 2016, including details of its offensive Internet operations. I have not read through...
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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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