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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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Eavesdropping by the Foscam Security Camera
Brian Krebs has a really weird story about the build-in eavesdropping by the Chinese-made Foscam security camera: Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance...
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Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance
Interesting research: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Zhiewi Steven Wu, and Grigory Yaroslavtsev, "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search," PNAS...
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The Ads vs. Ad Blockers Arms Race
For the past month or so, Forbes has been blocking browsers with ad blockers. Today, I tried to access a Wired article and the site blocked me for the same reason...
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Practical TEMPEST Attack
Four researchers have demonstrated a TEMPEST attack against a laptop, recovering its keys by listening to its electrical emanations. The cost for the attack hardware...
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Decrypting an iPhone for the FBI
Earlier this week, a federal magistrate ordered Apple to assist the FBI in hacking into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple will fight...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Up Close and Personal with a Giant Squid
Fascinating story. 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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Security Implications of Cash
I saw two related stories today. The first is about high-denomination currency. The EU is considering dropping its 500-euro note, on the grounds that only criminals...
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Underage Hacker Is behind Attacks against US Government
It's a teenager: British police have arrested a teenager who allegedly was behind a series of audacious -- and, for senior U.S. national security officials, embarrassing...
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Judge Demands that Apple Backdoor an iPhone
A judge has ordered that Apple bypass iPhone security in order for the FBI to attempt a brute-force password attack on an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino...
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Enabling Trust by Consensus
Trust is a complex social phenomenon, captured very poorly by the binary nature of Internet trust systems. This paper proposes a social consensus system of trust...
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Using Eagles to Intercept Drones
Both Dutch and UK police are training eagles to attack drones....
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Fear and Anxiety
More psychological research on our reaction to terrorism and mass violence: The researchers collected posts on Twitter made in response to the 2012 shooting attack...
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Survey of the Dark Web
Interesting paper on the dark web: Daniel Moore & Thomas Rid, "Cryptopolitik and the Darknet," Survival, 2016. (Technical annex here -- requires the Tor browser...
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Friday Squid Blogging : Pajama Squid
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a pajama squid. 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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Fitbit Data Reveals Pregnancy
A man learned his wife was pregnant from her Fitbit data. The details of the story are weird. The man posted the data to Reddit and asked for analysis help. But...
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Determining Physical Location on the Internet
Interesting research: "CPV: Delay-based Location Verification for the Internet": Abstract: The number of location-aware services over the Internet continues growing...
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Worldwide Encryption Products Survey
Today I released my worldwide survey of encryption products. The findings of this survey identified 619 entities that sell encryption products. Of those 412, or...
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Make Privacy a 2016 Election Issue
EPIC has just launched "Data Protection 2016" to try to make privacy an issue in this year's elections. You can buy swag....
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