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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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Eavesdropping Using Smart Phone Gyroscopes
The gyroscopes are sensitive enough to pick up acoustic vibrations. It's crude, but it works. Paper. Wired article. Hacker News thread....
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The Problems with PGP
Matthew Green has a good post on what's wrong with PGP and what should be done about it....
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People Are Not Very Good at Matching Photographs to People
We have an error rate of about 15%: Professor Mike Burton, Sixth Century Chair in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen said: "Psychologists identified around...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Boats Illuminate Bangkok from Space
Really: To attract the phytoplankton, fishermen suspend green lights from their boats to illuminate the sea. When the squid chase after their dinner, they're drawn...
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Chapter 137 of My Surreal Life
Someone wrote Sherlock-Schneier fan fiction. Not slash, thank heavens. (And no, that's not an invitation.)...
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Disguising Exfiltrated Data
There's an interesting article on a data exfiltration technique. What was unique about the attackers was how they disguised traffic between the malware and command...
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The Security of al Qaeda Encryption Software
The web intelligence firm Recorded Future has posted two stories about how al Qaeda is using new encryption software in response to the Snowden disclosures. NPR...
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US Air Force is Focusing on Cyber Deception
The US Air Force is focusing on cyber deception next year: Background: Deception is a deliberate act to conceal activity on our networks, create uncertainty and...
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QUANTUM Technology Sold by Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers
Last October, I broke the story about the NSA's top secret program to inject packets into the Internet backbone: QUANTUM. Specifically, I wrote about how QUANTUMINSERT...
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NSA/GCHQ/CESC Infecting Innocent Computers Worldwide
There's a new story on the c't magazin website about a 5-Eyes program to infect computers around the world for use as launching pads for attacks. These are not...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Te Papa Museum Gets a Second Colossal Squid
That's two more than I have. They're hoping it's a male. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Reverse-Engineering NSA Malware
Interesting articles reverse-engineering DEITYBOUNCE and BULLDOZER....
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New Snowden Interview in Wired
There's a new article on Edward Snowden in Wired. It's written by longtime NSA watcher James Bamford, who interviewed Snowden is Moscow. There's lots of interesting...
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Security as Interface Guarantees
This is a smart and interesting blog post: I prefer to think of security as a class of interface guarantee. In particular, security guarantees are a kind of correctness...
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Automatic Scanning for Highly Stressed Individuals
This borders on ridiculous: Chinese scientists are developing a mini-camera to scan crowds for highly stressed individuals, offering law-enforcement officers a...
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Irrational Fear of Risks Against Our Children
There's a horrible story of a South Carolina mother arrested for letting her 9-year-old daughter play alone at a park while she was at work. The article linked...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Proteins and the Brain-Computer Interface
There's a protein in squid that might be useful in getting biological circuits to talk to computer circuits. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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