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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
Data and Goliath's Big Idea
Data and Goliath is a book about surveillance, both government and corporate. It's an exploration in three parts: what's happening, why it matters, and what to...
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FREAK: Security Rollback Attack Against SSL
This week we learned about an attack called "FREAK" -- "Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys" -- that can break the encryption of many websites. Basically, some...
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The TSA's FAST Personality Screening Program Violates the Fourth Amendment
New law journal article: "A Slow March Towards Thought Crime: How the Department of Homeland Security's FAST Program Violates the Fourth Amendment," by Christopher...
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Now Corporate Drones are Spying on Cell Phones
The marketing firm Adnear is using drones to track cell phone users: The capture does not involve conversations or personally identifiable information, according...
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Tom Ridge Can Find Terrorists Anywhere
One of the problems with our current discourse about terrorism and terrorist policies is that the people entrusted with counterterrorism -- those whose job it is...
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Data and Goliath: Reviews and Excerpts
On the net right now, there are excerpts from the Introduction on Scientific American, Chapter 5 on the Atlantic, Chapter 6 on the Blaze, Chapter 8 on Ars Technica...
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Google Backs Away from Default Lollipop Encryption
Lillipop encryption by default is still in the future. No conspiracy here; it seems like they don't have the appropriate drivers yet. But while relaxing the requirement...
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The Democratization of Cyberattack
The thing about infrastructure is that everyone uses it. If it's secure, it's secure for everyone. And if it's insecure, it's insecure for everyone. This forces...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communicate by Flashing Each Other
Scientists are attaching cameras to Humboldt squid to watch them communicate with each other. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Data and Goliath Book Tour
Over the next two weeks, I am speaking about my new book -- Data and Goliath, if you've missed it -- in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Seattle, San Francisco...
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Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not from Them
In December, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was interviewed at the CATO Institute Surveillance Conference. One of the things he said, after talking about...
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Snowden-Greenwald-Poitras AMA
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Edward Snowden did an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. Point out anything interesting in the comments. And note that Snowden mentioned...
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"Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems"
New paper: "Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems," by Bruce Schneier, Matthew Fredrikson, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Thomas Ristenpart. Abstract: Revelations...
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On Monday, I asked Adm. Rogers a question. EDITED TO ADD: The question....
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AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them
AT&T is charging a premium for gigabit Internet service without surveillance: The tracking and ad targeting associated with the gigabit service cannot be avoided...
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Cell Phones Leak Location Information through Power Usage
New research on tracking the location of smart phone users by monitoring power consumption: PowerSpy takes advantage of the fact that a phone's cellular transmissions...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Recode Their Genetic Makeup
This is freaky: A new study showcases the first example of an animal editing its own genetic makeup on-the-fly to modify most of its proteins, enabling adjustments...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Lenovo Computers
It's not just national intelligence agencies that break your https security through man-in-the-middle attacks. Corporations do it, too. For the past few months,...
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NSA/GCHQ Hacks SIM Card Database and Steals Billions of Keys
The Intercept has an extraordinary story: the NSA and/or GCHQ hacked into the Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto, stealing the encryption keys for billions of...
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