Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Putin Requires Russian Bloggers to Register with the Government
This is not good news. Widely known as the "bloggers law," the new Russian measure specifies that any site with more than 3,000 visitors daily will be considered...
From Schneier on Security
Retelling of Stories Increases Bias
Interesting experiment shows that the retelling of stories increases conflict and bias. For their study, which featured 196 undergraduates, the researchers created...
From Schneier on Security
Correspondence Between the NSA and Google Leaked
Al Jazeera is reporting on leaked emails (not leaked by Snowden, but by someone else) detailing close ties between the NSA and Google. There are no smoking guns...
From Schneier on Security
Fearing Google
Mathias Dopfner writes an open letter explaining why he fears Google: We know of no alternative which could offer even partially comparable technological prerequisites...
From Schneier on Security
The Economics of Video Game Cheating
Interesting article on the business of selling enhancements that allow you to cheat in online video games....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Flying Squid Fly
Someone has finally proven how: How do these squid go from swimming to flying? Four phases of flight are described in the research: launching, jetting, gliding...
From Schneier on Security
Unusual Electronic Voting Machine Threat Model
Rats have destroyed dozens of electronic voting machines by eating the cables. It would have been a better story if the rats had zeroed out the machines after the...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of the FBI's Failure to Stop the Boston Marathon Bombings
Detailed response and analysis of the inspectors general report on the Boston Marathon bombings: Two opposite mistakes in an after-the-fact review of a terrorist...
From Schneier on Security
Really Weird Keith Alexander Interview
Comedian John Oliver interviewed now-retired NSA director General Keith Alexander. It's truly weird....
From Schneier on Security
The Federal Reserve System's Cyberdefense Force
Interesting article on the cybersecurity branch of the Federal Reserve System....
From Schneier on Security
Tracking People from Smartphone Accelerometers
It's been long known that individual analog devices have their own fingerprints. Decades ago, individual radio transmitters were identifiable and trackable. Now...
From Schneier on Security
The Quantified Toilet Hoax
Good essay on the Quantified Toilet hoax, and the difference between public surveillance and private self-surveillance....
From Schneier on Security
Details of Apple's Fingerprint Recognition
This is interesting: Touch ID takes a 88x88 500ppi scan of your finger and temporarily sends that data to a secure cache located near the RAM, after the data is...
From Schneier on Security
A New Pencil-and-Paper Encryption Algorithm
Handycipher is a new pencil-and-paper symmetric encryption algorithm. I'd bet a gazillion dollars that it's not secure, although I haven't done the cryptanalysis...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
It's called "Tentacles." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Is Google Too Big to Trust?
Interesting essay about how Google's lack of transparency is hurting their trust: The reality is that Google's business is and has always been about mining as much...
From Schneier on Security
Conversnitch
Surveillance is getting cheaper and easier: Two artists have revealed Conversnitch, a device they built for less than $100 that resembles a lightbulb or lamp and...
From Schneier on Security
The Security of Various Programming Languages
Interesting research on the security of code written in different programming languages. We don't know whether the security is a result of inherent properties of...
From Schneier on Security
Dan Geer on Heartbleed and Software Monocultures
Good essay: To repeat, Heartbleed is a common mode failure. We would not know about it were it not open source (Good). That it is open source has been shown to...
From Schneier on Security