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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 Full Story of Yahoo's Fight Against PRISM
In 2008 Yahoo fought the NSA to avoid becoming part of the PRISM program. They eventually lost their court battle, and at one point were threatened with a $250,000...
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Identifying Dread Pirate Roberts
According to court documents, Dread Pirate Roberts was identified because a CAPTCHA service used on the Silk Road login page leaked the users' true location....
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Tracking People From their Cellphones with an SS7 Vulnerability
What's interesting about this story is not that the cell phone system can track your location worldwide. That makes sense; the system has to know where you are....
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Two New Snowden Stories
New Zealand is spying on its citizens. Edward Snowden weighs in personally. The NSA and GCHQ are mapping the entire Internet, including hacking into Deutsche Telekom...
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Security of the SHA Family of Hash Functions
Good article on the insecurity of SHA-1 and the need to replace it sooner rather than later....
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Friday Squid Blogging: 200-Pound Squid Found in Gulf of Mexico
A 200-pound dead giant squid was found near the coast of Matagorda, Texas. This is only the third giant squid ever found in the Gulf of Mexico. As usual, you can...
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The Concerted Effort to Remove Data Collection Restrictions
Since the beginning, data privacy regulation focused on collection, storage, and use. You can see it in the OECD Privacy Framework from 1980 (see also this proposed...
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Tabnapping: A New Phishing Attack
Aza Raskin describes a new phishing attack: taking over a background tab on a browser to trick people into entering in their login credentials. Clever....
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WikiLeaks Spy Files
WikiLeaks has organized the trove of documents about corporations aiding government surveillance around the world. It's worth wandering around through all this...
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Safeplug Security Analysis
Good security analysis of Safeplug, which is basically Tor in a box. Short answer: not yet....
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Wi-Fi Jammer
A device called Cyborg Unplugged can be configured to prevent any Wi-Fi connection: Oliver notes on the product's website that its so-called "All Out Mode" -- which...
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iPhone Payment Security
Apple is including some sort of automatic credit-card payment system with the iPhone 6. They're using some security feature of the phone and system to negotiate...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Book by One Squid-Obsessed Person About Another
Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, by Matthew Gavin Frank. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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Security of Password Managers
At USENIX Security this year there were two papers studying the security of password managers: David Silver, Suman Jana, and Dan Boneh, "Password Managers: Attacks...
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JackPair Encrypted Phone Add-On
JackPair is a clever device encrypts your voice between your headset and the audio jack. The crypto looks competent, and the design looks well-thought-out. I'd...
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Pencil-and-Paper Codes Used by Central American Criminal Gangs
No mention of how good the codes are. My guess is not very....
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Squid Skin Inspires Eye-Like Photodetector
Squid are color-blind, but may detect color directly through their skin. A researcher is working on a system to detect colored light the way squid do....
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Cell Phone Kill Switches Mandatory in California
California passed a kill-switch law, meaning that all cell phones sold in California must have the capability to be remotely turned off. It was sold as an antitheft...
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