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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks
Writing a magazine column is always an exercise in time travel. I'm writing these words in early December. You're reading them in February. This means anything...
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FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List
The FBI just added two members of the Syrian Electronic Army to its cyber most-wanted list. I had no idea that the FBI had a cyber most-wanted list....
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1981 US Document on Encryption Policy
This was newly released under FOIA at my request: Victor C. Williams, Jr., Donn B. Parker, and Charles C. Wood, "Impacts of Federal Policy Options for Nonmilitary...
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Observations on the Surveillance that Resulted in the Capture of Salah Abdeslam
Interesting analysis from The Grugq: Bottom Line Up Front Intelligence agencies must cooperate more rapidly and proactively to counter ISIS' rapid and haphazard...
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iMessage Encryption Flaw Found and Fixed
Matthew Green and team found and reported a significant iMessage encryption flaw last year. Green suspected there might be a flaw in iMessage last year after he...
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Brennan Center Report on NSA Overseas Spying and Executive Order 12333
The Brennan Center has released a report on EO 12333, the executive order that regulates the NSA's overseas surveillance. Much of what the NSA does here is secret...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Braised Squid With Harissa and Olives
Recommended recipe. 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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I'm a Wall Street Journal Acrostic Answer
A quote from Data and Goliath is the answer to a Wall Street Journal acrostic. It's not the same as being a New York Times crossword puzzle answer, but it's close...
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Companies Handing Source Code Over to Governments
ZDNet has an article on US government pressure on software companies to hand over copies of their source code. There's no details because no one is talking on the...
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New NIST Encryption Guidelines
NIST has published a draft of their new standard for encryption use: "NIST Special Publication 800-175B, Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal...
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Another FBI Filing on the San Bernardino iPhone Case
The FBI's reply to Apple is more of a character assassination attempt than a legal argument. It's as if it only cares about public opinion at this point. Although...
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Financial Cryptography 2016
Ross Anderson liveblogged this year's Financial Cryptography conference....
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Possible Government Demand for WhatsApp Backdoor
The New York Times is reporting that WhatsApp, and its parent company Facebook, may be headed to court over encrypted chat data that the FBI can't decrypt. This...
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Punishment and Trust
Interesting research: "Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness, by Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom,and David G. Rand, Nature:...
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Analysis of Yemeni Cell Phone Metadata
This research shows the power of cell phone metadata. From an article by the author: Yemen has experienced an array of violent incidents and political turmoil in...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scientists on Tumblr
Really great Tumblr feed. 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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Leaked ISIS Documents
Looks like tens of thousands of ISIS documents have been leaked. Where did they come from? We don't know: Documents listing the names of Islamic State fighters...
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Espionage Tactics Against Tibetans
A Citizen Lab research study of Chinese attack and espionage tactics against Tibetan networks and users. This report describes the latest iteration in a long-running...
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Hidden Credit Card Skimmers
New credit card skimmers are hidden inside the card readers, making them impossible to spot....
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