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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
Zipcar Disruption
This isn't a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications...
From Schneier on Security
An Argument that Cybersecurity Is Basically Okay
Andrew Odlyzko's new essay is worth reading -- "Cybersecurity is not very important": Abstract: There is a rising tide of security breaches. There is an even faster...
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Triton
Good article on the Triton malware which targets industrial control systems....
From Schneier on Security
CAs Reissue Over One Million Weak Certificates
Turns out that the software a bunch of CAs used to generate public-key certificates was flawed: they created random serial numbers with only 63 bits instead of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: A Squid-Related Vacation Tour in Hawaii
You can hunt for the Hawaiian bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read...
From Schneier on Security
I Was Cited in a Court Decision
An article I co-wrote -- my first law journal article -- was cited by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court -- the state supreme court -- in a case on compelled...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm teaching a live online class called "Spotlight on Cloud: The Future of Internet Security with...
From Schneier on Security
Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System
Researchers have found a critical flaw in the Swiss Internet voting system. I was going to write an essay about how this demonstrates that Internet voting is a...
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DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System
This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design...
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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift
Facebook is making a new and stronger commitment to privacy. Last month, the company hired three of its most vociferous critics and installed them in senior technical...
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On Surveillance in the Workplace
Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance...
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Russia Is Testing Online Voting
This is a bad idea: A second innovation will allow "electronic absentee voting" within voters' home precincts. In other words, Russia is set to introduce its first...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Proteins Can Be an Alternative to Plastic
Is there anything squids aren't good for? Academic paper. 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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Videos and Links from the Public-Interest Technology Track at the RSA Conference
Yesterday at the RSA Conference, I gave a keynote talk about the role of public-interest technologists in cybersecurity. (Video here). I also hosted a one-day mini...
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Cybersecurity Insurance Not Paying for NotPetya Losses
This will complicate things: To complicate matters, having cyber insurance might not cover everyone's losses. Zurich American Insurance Company refused to pay out...
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Detecting Shoplifting Behavior
This system claims to detect suspicious behavior that indicates shoplifting: Vaak, a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that hunts...
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Letterlocking
Really good article on the now-lost art of letterlocking....
From Schneier on Security
Digital Signatures in PDFs Are Broken
Researchers have demonstrated spoofing of digital signatures in PDF files. This would matter more if PDF digital signatures were widely used. Still, the researchers...
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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest
The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices...
From Schneier on Security