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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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Breaking Semantic Image CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: Suphannee Sivakorn, Iasonas Polakis and Angelos D. Keromytis, "I Am Robot: (Deep) Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs": Abstract: Since...
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Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering
This works: Khan was arrested in mid-July 2015. Undercover police officers posing as company managers arrived at his workplace and asked to check his driver and...
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IBM Officially Owns Resilient Systems
It's officially final; IBM has "completed the acquisition" of Resilient Systems, Inc. We are now "Resilient: an IBM Company." As I expected when I announced this...
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CONIKS
CONIKS is an new easy-to-use transparent key-management system: CONIKS is a key management system for end users capable of integration in end-to-end secure communication...
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WhatsApp is Now End-to-End Encrypted
WhatsApp is now end-to-end encrypted....
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Data and Goliath Sale
I have a bunch of extra copies of my book Data and Goliath, and I am selling them at a discount. Details here....
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Smart Essay on the Limitations of Anti-Terrorism Security
This is good: Threats constantly change, yet our political discourse suggests that our vulnerabilities are simply for lack of resources, commitment or competence...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Composite Materials Based on Squid Beaks
Squid-based research is yielding composites that are both strong and flexible. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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Reddit's Warrant Canary Just Died
Reddit has received a National Security Letter. I have long discounted warrant canaries. A gag order is serious, and this sort of high-school trick won't fool judges...
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Hacking Elections in Latin America
Long and interesting article about a fixer who hacked multiple elections in Latin America. This isn't election hacking as in manipulate the voting machines or the...
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ISIS Encryption Opsec
Tidbits from the New York Times: The final phase of Mr. Hame's training took place at an Internet cafe in Raqqa, where an Islamic State computer specialist handed...
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Lawful Hacking and Continuing Vulnerabilities
The FBI's legal battle with Apple is over, but the way it ended may not be good news for anyone. Federal agents had been seeking to compel Apple to break the security...
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Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions
Research paper: Elizabeth Stoycheff, "Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring": Abstract: Since...
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A 1976 Congressional Report on Surveillance
Here's a 1,300-page Congressional report on "surveillance technology" from 1976....
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Power on the Internet
Interesting paper: Yochai Benkler, "Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power," Daedelus, winter 2016: Abstract: The original Internet design combined technical,...
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Memphis Airport Inadvertently Gets Security Right
A local newspaper recently tested airport security at Memphis Airport: Our crew sat for 30 minutes in the passenger drop-off area Tuesday without a word from anyone...
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Interesting Lottery Terminal Hack
It was a manipulation of the terminals. The 5 Card Cash game was suspended in November after Connecticut Lottery and state Department of Consumer Protection officials...
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FBI vs. Apple: Who Is Helping the FBI?
On Monday, the FBI asked the court for a two-week delay in a scheduled hearing on the San Bernardino iPhone case, because some "third party" approached it with...
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