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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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Hacking Ukraine's Power Grid
This is an excellent article on the December hack of Ukraine's power grid....
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Pirates Hack into Shipping Company's Database
A group of pirates -- the real kind -- determined which cargo to steal by hacking into a shipping company's database. Here's the report....
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Cheating at Professional Bridge
Interesting article on detecting cheaters in professional bridge using big-data analysis. Basically, a big part of the game is the communication of information...
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Interesting Research on the Economics of Privacy
New paper: "The Economics of Privacy, by Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor, and Liad Wagman: Abstract: This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Whale Mistaken for Squid
A purported giant squid that washed up on the shore in Norfolk, England, is actually a minke whale. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Sabotaging Bicycle Racks
This is the first time I've heard of this clever hack. Bicycle thieves saw through a bicycle rack and then tape it back together, so unsuspecting people chain their...
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Data Is a Toxic Asset
Thefts of personal information aren't unusual. Every week, thieves break into networks and steal data about people, often tens of millions at a time. Most of the...
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DROWN Attack
Earlier this week, we learned of yet another attack against SSL/TLS where an attacker can force people to use insecure algorithms. It's called DROWN. Here's a good...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Keyboards
Many wireless keyboards have a security vulnerability that allow someone to hack the computer using the keyboard-computer link. (Technical details here.) An attacker...
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The Mathematics of Conspiracy
This interesting study tries to build a mathematical model for the continued secrecy of conspiracies, and tries to predict how long before they will be revealed...
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Company Tracks Iowa Caucusgoers by their Cell Phones
It's not just governments. Companies like Dstillery are doing this too: "We watched each of the caucus locations for each party and we collected mobile device ID's...
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WikiLeaks Publishes NSA Target List
As part of an ongoing series of classified NSA target list and raw intercepts, WikiLeaks published details of the NSA's spying on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon...
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Lots More Writing about the FBI vs. Apple
I have written two posts on the case, and at the bottom of those essays are lots of links to other essays written by other people. Here are more links. If you read...
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Resilient Systems News: IBM to Buy Resilient Systems
Today, IBM announced its intention to purchase my company, Resilient Systems. (Yes, the rumors were basically true.) I think this is a great development for Resilient...
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More on the "Data as Exhaust" Metaphor
Research paper: Gavin J.D. Smith, "Surveillance, Data and Embodiment: On the Work of Being Watched," Body and Society, January 2016. Abstract: Today's bodies are...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Energy Converter Inspired by Squid
Engineers have invented a wave energy converter that works in the same way that squid propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid...
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Notice and Consent
New Research: Rebecca Lipman, "Online Privacy and the Invisible Market for Our Data." The paper argues that notice and consent doesn't work, and suggests how is...
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Thinking about Intimate Surveillance
Law Professor Karen Levy writes about the rise of surveillance in our most intimate activities -- love, sex, romance -- and how it affects those activities. This...
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Simultaneous Discovery of Vulnerabilities
In the conversation about zero-day vulnerabilities and whether "good" governments should disclose or hoard vulnerabilities, one of the critical variables is independent...
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