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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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Alan Watts on the Harms of Surveillance
Biologist Alan Watts makes some good points: Mammals don’t respond well to surveillance. We consider it a threat. It makes us paranoid, and aggressive and vengeful...
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Disclosing vs Hoarding Vulnerabilities
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government -- specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Comman -- should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities...
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The NSA is Not Made of Magic
I am regularly asked what is the most surprising thing about the Snowden NSA documents. It's this: the NSA is not made of magic. Its tools are no different from...
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Government Policy on Cell Phone Interception Technology
New paper: "Your Secret Stingray's No Secret Anymore: The Vanishing Government Monopoly Over Cell Phone Surveillance and its Impact on National Security and Consumer...
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Preplay Attack on Chip and PIN
Interesting research paper on a bank card chip-and-PIN vulnerability. From the blog post: Our new paper shows that it is possible to create clone chip cards which...
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Advances in Solving the Discrete Log Problem
At Eurocrypt this year, researchers presented a paper that completely breaks the discrete log problem in any field with a small characteristic. It's nice work,...
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Pervasive Monitoring as Network Attack
New IETF RFC: "RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" that designers must mitigate. Slashdot thread....
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Abusing Power to Shut Down a Twitter Parody Account
This is a pretty horrible story of a small-town mayor abusing his authority -- warrants where there is no crime, police raids, incidental marijuana bust -- to identify...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Fossil Squid
Rare fossilized cephalopods. 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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How to Stop an Insider from Stealing All Your Secrets
This article from Communications of the ACM outlines some of the security measures the NSA could, and should, have had in place to stop someone like Snowden. Mostly...
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Forged SSL Certificates Pervasive on the Internet
About 0.2% of all SSL certificates are forged. This is the first time I've ever seen a number based on real data. News article: Of 3.45 million real-world connections...
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Is Antivirus Dead?
Symantec declared anti-virus dead, and Brian Krebs writes a good response. He's right: antivirus won't protect you from the ever-increasing percentage of malware...
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Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semifinalists
On April 1, I announced the Seventh Movie Plot Threat Contest: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous surveillance...
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Espionage vs. Surveillance
According to NSA documents published in Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide, we now know that the NSA spies on embassies and missions all over the world...
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New Al Qaeda Encryption Software
The Web intelligence company Recorded Future is reporting -- picked up by the Wall Street Journal -- that al Qaeda is using new encryption software in the wake...
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Computer Forensics in Fiction
New television show -- CSI: Cyber. I hope they have some good technical advisers, but I doubt they do....
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New NSA Snowden Documents
Glenn Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide, has been published today. There are about 100 pages of NSA documents on the book's website. I haven't gone through them...
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Steganography in Tweets
Clever, but make sure to heed the caveats in the final two paragraphs....
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Internet Subversion
In addition to turning the Internet into a worldwide surveillance platform, the NSA has surreptitiously weakened the products, protocols, and standards we all use...
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