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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
Deanonymizing Taxi Passenger and Fare Data
Interesting essay on the sorts of things you can learn from anonymized taxi passenger and fare data....
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Whisper Tracks Users
The Guardian has reported that the app Whisper tracks users, and then published a second article explaining what it knows after Whisper denied the story. Here's...
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More Crypto Wars II
FBI Director James Comey again called for an end to secure encryption by putting in a backdoor. Here's his speech: There is a misconception that building a lawful...
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How Did the Feds Identity Dread Pirate Roberts?
Last month, I wrote that the FBI identified Ross W. Ulbricht as the Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts through a leaky CAPTCHA. Seems that story doesn't hold water...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 1,057 Squid T-Shirts
That's a lot. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. And commenting was broken for a...
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Hacking a Video Poker Machine
Kevin Poulsen has written an interesting story about two people who successfully exploited a bug in a popular video poker machine....
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NSA Classification ECI = Exceptionally Controlled Information
ECI is a classification above Top Secret. It's for things that are so sensitive they're basically not written down, like the names of companies whose cryptography...
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DEA Sets Up Fake Facebook Page in Woman's Name
This is a creepy story. A woman has her phone seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency and gives them permission to look at her phone. Without her knowledge or consent...
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FOXACID Operations Manual
A few days ago, I saw this tweet: "Just a reminder that it is now *a full year* since Schneier cited it, and the FOXACID ops manual remains unpublished." It's true...
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Surveillance in Schools
This essay, "Grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance," talks about the general trends in student surveillance. Related: essay on the need for student privacy...
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How James Bamford Came to Write The Puzzle Palace
Interesting essay about James Bamford and his efforts to publish The Puzzle Palace over the NSA's objections. Required reading for those who think the NSA's excesses...
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NSA Has Undercover Operatives in Foreign Companies
The latest Intercept article on the Snowden NSA documents talks about their undercover operatives working in foreign companies. There are no specifics, although...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flash-Fried Squid Recipe
Recipe from Tom Douglas. 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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Online Activism and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Good essay by Molly Sauter: basically, there is no legal avenue for activism and protest on the Internet. Also note Sauter's new book, The Coming Swarm....
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Dynamic Encryption for Voice
This article reads like snake oil. But the company was founded by Lars Knudsen, so it can't possibly be. I'm curious....
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USB Cufflinks
Just the thing for smuggling data out of secure locations....
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BadUSB Code Has Been Published
In July, I wrote about an unpatchable USB vulnerability called BadUSB. Code for the vulnerability has been published....
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Data and Goliath Is Finished
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World is finished. I submitted it to my publisher, Norton, this morning. In a few weeks...
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iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars
Last week Apple announced that it is closing a serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. It used to be that the phone's encryption only protected a small amount...
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