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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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Me on Restaurant Surveillance Technology
I attended the National Restaurant Association exposition in Chicago earlier this year, and looked at all the ways modern restaurant IT is spying on people. But...
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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the Shadow Brokers
In April, the Shadow Brokers -- presumably Russia -- released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different...
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Firing a Locked Smart Gun
The Armatix IP1 "smart gun" can only be fired by someone who is wearing a special watch. Unfortunately, this security measure is easily hackable....
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Roombas will Spy on You
The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects....
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Alternatives to Government-Mandated Encryption Backdoors
Policy essay: "Encryption Substitutes," by Andrew Keane Woods: In this short essay, I make a few simple assumptions that bear mentioning at the outset. First, I...
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US Army Researching Bot Swarms
The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland
It's the second in two months. Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my...
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Hacking a Segway
The Segway has a mobile app. It is hackable: While analyzing the communication between the app and the Segway scooter itself, Kilbride noticed that a user PIN number...
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Ethereum Hacks
The press is reporting a $32M theft of the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Like all such thefts, they're not a result of a cryptographic failure in the currencies, but...
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Password Masking
Slashdot asks if password masking -- replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them -- is on the way out. I don't know if that's true, but I would...
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Many of My E-Books for Cheap
Humble Bundle is selling a bunch of cybersecurity books very cheaply. You can get copies of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Cryptography Engineering...
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Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption
News from Australia: Under the law, internet companies would have the same obligations telephone companies do to help law enforcement agencies, Prime Minister Malcolm...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Eyeball Collector Wants a Giant-Squid Eyeball
They're rare: The one Dubielzig really wants is an eye from a giant squid, which has the biggest eye of any living animal -- it's the size of a dinner plate. "But...
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Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci
There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes...
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Forged Documents and Microsoft Fonts
A set of documents in Pakistan were detected as forgeries because their fonts were not in circulation at the time the documents were dated....
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Tomato-Plant Security
I have a soft spot for interesting biological security measures, especially by plants. I've used them as examples in several of my books. Here's a new one: when...
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More on the NSA's Use of Traffic Shaping
"Traffic shaping" -- the practice of tricking data to flow through a particular route on the Internet so it can be more easily surveiled -- is an NSA technique...
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Hacking Spotify
Some of the ways artists are hacking the music-streaming service Spotify....
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The Future of Forgeries
This article argues that AI technologies will make image, audio, and video forgeries much easier in the future. Combined, the trajectory of cheap, high-quality...
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