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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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The Further Democratization of Stingray
Stingray is the code name for an IMSI-catcher, which is basically a fake cell phone tower sold by Harris Corporation to various law enforcement agencies. (It's...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Unique Reproductive Habits of the Vampire Squid
Interesting: While most female squid and octopuses have just one reproductive cycle before they die, vampire squid go through dozens of egg-making cycles in their...
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Signed Copies of Data and Goliath
You can now order signed copies of Data and Goliath from my website....
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Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill on Obscurity
I think this is good: Obscurity means that personal information isn't readily available to just anyone. It doesn't mean that information is wiped out or even locked...
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The Further Democratization of QUANTUM
From Data and Goliath: ...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose...
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An Incredibly Insecure Voting Machine
Wow: The weak passwords -- which are hard-coded and can't be changed -- were only one item on a long list of critical defects uncovered by the review. The Wi-Fi...
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"Hinky" in Action
In Beyond Fear I wrote about trained officials recognizing "hinky" and how it differs from profiling: Ressam had to clear customs before boarding the ferry. He...
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Hacking Airplanes
Imagine this: A terrorist hacks into a commercial airplane from the ground, takes over the controls from the pilots and flies the plane into the ground. It sounds...
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Hacker Detained by FBI after Tweeting about Airplane Software Vulnerabilities
This is troubling: Chris Roberts was detained by FBI agents on Wednesday as he was deplaning his United flight, which had just flown from Denver to Syracuse, New...
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Counting the US Intelligence Community Leakers
It's getting hard to keep track of the US intelligence community leakers without a scorecard. So here's my attempt: Leaker #1: Chelsea Manning. Leaker #2: Edward...
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New Top Secret Information on the US's Drone Program
New operational information on the US's drone program, published by the Intercept and Der Speigel....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Hoodie
This is neat. 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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The No-Fly List and Due Process
The Congressional Research Service has released a report on the no-fly list and current litigation that it violates due process....
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How Many Vulnerabilities Are there in Software?
Dan Geer proposes some techniques for answering this question....
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Metal Detectors at Sports Stadiums
Fans attending Major League Baseball games are being greeted in a new way this year: with metal detectors at the ballparks. Touted as a counterterrorism measure...
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John Oliver Interviews Edward Snowden
Wow, what an amazing segment and interview....
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Two Thoughtful Essays on the Future of Privacy
Paul Krugman argues that we'll give up our privacy because we want to emulate the rich, who are surrounded by servants who know everything about them: Consider...
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China's Great Cannon
Citizen Lab has issued a report on China's "Great Cannon" attack tool, used in the recent DDoS attack against GitHub. We show that, while the attack infrastructure...
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