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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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Security vs. Business Flexibility
This article demonstrates that security is less important than functionality. When asked about their preference if they needed to choose between IT security and...
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Tracking Someone Using LifeLock
Someone opened a LifeLock account in his ex-wife's name, and used the service to track her bank accounts, credit cards, and other financial activities. The article...
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A History of Privacy
This New Yorker article traces the history of privacy from the mid 1800s to today: As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy...
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Cryptanalysis of Algebraic Eraser
Algebraic Eraser is a public-key key-agreement protocol that's patented and being pushed by a company for the Internet of Things, primarily because it is efficient...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Necklace
She's calling it an octopus, but it's a 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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Data and Goliath in German
The German edition of Data and Goliath has been published....
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Defending against Actual IT Threats
Roger Grimes has written an interesting paper: "Implementing a Data-Driven Computer Security Defense." His thesis is that most organizations don't match their defenses...
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NSA Lectures on Communications Security from 1973
Newly declassified: "A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II)," the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA), 1973. (The document...
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NSA Collected Americans' E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans' E-mails
In 2011, the Bush administration authorized -- almost certainly illegally -- the NSA to conduct bulk electronic surveillance on Americans: phone calls, e-mails,...
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Policy Repercussions of the Paris Terrorist Attacks
In 2013, in the early days of the Snowden leaks, Harvard Law School professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith reflected on the increase in...
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Voter Surveillance
There hasn't been that much written about surveillance and big data being used to manipulate voters. In Data and Goliath, I wrote: Unique harms can arise from the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Spawning in South Australian Waters
Divers are counting them: Squid gather and mate with as many partners as possible, then die, in an annual ritual off Rapid Head on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south...
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Reputation in the Information Age
Reputation is a social mechanism by which we come to trust one another, in all aspects of our society. I see it as a security mechanism. The promise and threat...
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RFID-Shielded, Ultra-Strong Duffel Bags
They're for carrying cash through dangerous territory: SDR Traveller caters to people who, for one reason or another, need to haul huge amounts of cash money through...
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Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption
That is, no encryption at all. The Intercept has the story: "Yet news emerging from Paris -- as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January -- suggests...
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Ads Surreptitiously Using Sound to Communicate Across Devices
This is creepy and disturbing: Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track...
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On CISA
I have avoided writing about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), largely because the details kept changing. (For those not following closely, similar...
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Refuse to Be Terrorized
Paul Krugman has written a really good update of my 2006 esssay. Krugman: So what can we say about how to respond to terrorism? Before the atrocities in Paris,...
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Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden
Well, that didn't take long: As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that have claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame for the carnage is being directed toward American...
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