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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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High-tech Cheating on Exams
India is cracking down on people who use technology to cheat on exams: Candidates have been told to wear light clothes with half-sleeves, and shirts that do not...
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Organizational Doxing
Recently, WikiLeaks began publishing over half a million previously secret cables and other documents from the Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia. It's a huge trove...
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The Risks of Mandating Back Doors in Encryption Products
Monday a group of cryptographers and security experts released a major paper outlining the risks of government-mandated back-doors in encryption products: Keys...
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Amazon Is Analyzing the Personal Relationships of Its Reviewers
This is an interesting story of a reviewer who had her reviewer deleted because Amazon believed she knew the author personally. Leaving completely aside the ethics...
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More on Hacking Team
Read this: Hacking Team asked its customers to shut down operations, but according to one of the leaked files, as part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it...
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More about the NSA's XKEYSCORE
I've been reading through the 48 classified documents about the NSA's XKEYSCORE system released by the Intercept last week. From the article: The NSA's XKEYSCORE...
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Hacking Team Is Hacked
Someone hacked the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team and posted 400 GB of internal company data. Hacking Team is a pretty sleazy company, selling surveillance...
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NSA German Intercepts
On Friday, WikiLeaks published three summaries of NSA intercepts of German government communications. To me, the most interesting thing is not the intercept analyses...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in the Gulf of Thailand
Long article about a very lucrative squid-fishing industry that involves bribing the Cambodian Navy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Rabbit Beating Up Snake
It's the Internet, which means there must be cute animal videos on this blog. But this one is different. Watch a mother rabbit beat up a snake to protect her children...
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Clever System of Secure Distributed Computation
This is really clever: Enigma's technique -- what cryptographers call "secure multiparty computation" -- works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin's decentralized...
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Details of the NSA's XKEYSCORE
The Intercept has published a highly detailed two-part article on how the NSA's XKEYSCORE works, including a huge number of related documents from the Snowden archive...
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Office of Personnel Management Data Hack
I don't have much to say about the recent hack of the US Office of Personnel Management, which has been attributed to China (and seems to be getting worse all the...
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Twitter Followers: Please Use the Correct Feed
The official Twitter feed for my blog is @schneierblog. The account @Bruce_Schneier also mirrors my blog, but it is not mine. I have nothing to do with it, and...
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Tracking the Psychological Effects of the 9/11 Attacks
Interesting research from 2012: "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns, Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Representative...
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TEMPEST Attack
There's a new paper on a low-cost TEMPEST attack against PC cryptography: We demonstrate the extraction of secret decryption keys from laptop computers, by nonintrusively...
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Migrating from SHA-1 to SHA-2
Here's a comprehensive document on migrating from SHA-1 to SHA-2 in Active Directory certificates....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Classic Gary Larson Squid Cartoon
I have always liked this one. 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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Other GCHQ News from Snowden
There are two other Snowden stories this week about GCHQ: one about its hacking practices, and the other about its propaganda and psychology research. The second...
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