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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 …
From Schneier on Security
License Plate Scanners Hidden in Fake Cactus
The city of Paradise Valley, AZ, is hiding license plate scanners in fake cactus plants....
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German Cryptanalysis of the M-209
This 1947 document describes a German machine to cryptanalyze the American M-209 mechanical encryption machine. I can't figure out anything about how it works.....
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Amateurs Produce Amateur Cryptography
Anyone can design a cipher that he himself cannot break. This is why you should uniformly distrust amateur cryptography, and why you should only use published algorithms...
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More on the NSA's Capabilities
Ross Anderson summarizes a meeting in Princeton where Edward Snowden was "present." Third, the leaks give us a clear view of an intelligence analyst's workflow....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chair
Squid chair. 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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Stealing a Billion
It helps if you own the banks: The report said Shor and his associates worked together in 2012 to buy a controlling stake in three Moldovan banks and then gradually...
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Online Dating Scams
Interesting research: We identified three types of scams happening on Jiayuan. The first one involves advertising of escort services or illicit goods, and is very...
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Another Example of Cell Phone Metadata Forensic Surveillance
Matthew Cole explains how the Italian police figured out how the CIA kidnapped Abu Omar in Milan. Interesting use of cell phone metadata, showing how valuable it...
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An Example of Cell Phone Metadata Forensic Surveillance
In this long article on the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in Beirut, there's a detailed section on what the investigators were able to learn from the cell...
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The NSA's Voice-to-Text Capabilities
New article from the Intercept based on the Snowden documents....
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Easily Cracking a Master Combination Lock
Impressive. Kamkar told Ars his Master Lock exploit started with a well-known vulnerability that allows Master Lock combinations to be cracked in 100 or fewer tries...
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Detecting QUANTUMINSERT
Fox-IT has a blog post (and has published Snort rules) on how to detect man-on-the-side Internet attacks like the NSA's QUANTUMINSERT. From a Wired article: But...
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Digital Privacy Public Service Announcement
I thought this was very well done....
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Ears as a Biometric
It's an obvious biometric for cell phones: Bodyprint recognizes users by their ears with 99.8% precision with a false rejection rate of only 1 out of 13. Grip,...
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Measuring the Expertise of Burglars
New research paper: "New methods for examining expertise in burglars in natural and simulated environments: preliminary findings": Expertise literature in mainstream...
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Protecting Against Google Phishing in Chrome
Google has a new Chrome extension called "Password Alert": To help keep your account safe, today we're launching Password Alert, a free, open-source Chrome extension...
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Remote Proctoring and Surveillance
Interesting article. There are a lot of surveillance and privacy issues at play here....
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