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NSA Patents
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NSA Patents

Details on the patents issued to the NSA....

Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid Recipe
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Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid Recipe

Delicious recipe of squid with cabbage, bean sprouts, and noodles. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...

I'm a Guest on "Adam Ruins Everything"
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I'm a Guest on "Adam Ruins Everything"

The show is about security theater. I am a disembodied head on a scooter. Here's a teaser. Here's the full episode (for pay, but cheap). The scooter idea was a...

SHA-1 Freestart Collision
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SHA-1 Freestart Collision

There's a new cryptanalysis result against the hash function SHA-1: Abstract: We present in this article a freestart collision example for SHA-1, i.e., a collision...

Information in Your Boarding Pass's Bar Code
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Information in Your Boarding Pass's Bar Code

There's a lot of information, including the ability to get even more information....

European Court of Justice Rules Against Safe Harbor
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European Court of Justice Rules Against Safe Harbor

The European Court of Justice ruled that sending personal data to the US violates their right to privacy: The ruling, by the European Court of Justice, said the...

Autonomous Vehicles as Bombs
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Autonomous Vehicles as Bombs

Good discussion of the issues. Now we need to think about solutions....

Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance
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Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance

ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but they'll soon be obsolete. You won't have to show your ID, because you'll be identified automatically...

Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Keeps Bacteria to Protect Its Eggs
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Keeps Bacteria to Protect Its Eggs

The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid deposits bacteria on its eggs to keep them safe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...

Resilient Systems News
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Resilient Systems News

Former Raytheon chief scientist Bill Swanson has joined our board of directors. For those who don't know, Resilient Systems is my company. I'm the CTO, and we sell...

Stealing Fingerprints
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Stealing Fingerprints

The news from the Office of Personnel Management hack keeps getting worse. In addition to the personal records of over 20 million US government employees, we've...

Existential Risk and Technological Advancement
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Existential Risk and Technological Advancement

AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point." Oh, how I wish I said that....

Identifying CIA Officers in the Field
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Identifying CIA Officers in the Field

During the Cold War, the KGB was very adept at identifying undercover CIA officers in foreign countries through what was basically big data analysis. (Yes, this...

Spoofing Fitness Trackers
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Spoofing Fitness Trackers

The website Unfitbits.com has a series of instructional videos on how to spoof fitness trackers, using such things as a metronome, pendulum, or power drill. With...

Volkswagen and Cheating Software
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Volkswagen and Cheating Software

For the past six years, Volkswagen has been cheating on the emissions testing for its diesel cars. The cars' computers were able to detect when they were being...

How GCHQ Tracks Internet Users
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How GCHQ Tracks Internet Users

The Intercept has a new story from the Snowden documents about The UK's GCHQ's surveillance of the Internet: The mass surveillance operation ­ code-named KARMA...

Good Article on the Sony Attack
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Good Article on the Sony Attack

Fortune has a three-part article on the Sony attack by North Korea. There's not a lot of tech here; it's mostly about Sony's internal politics regarding the movie...

Friday Squid Blogging: Disney's Minigame Squid Wars
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Friday Squid Blogging: Disney's Minigame Squid Wars

It looks like a Nintendo game. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

Anti-Alien Security
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Anti-Alien Security

You can wrap your house in tinfoil, but when you start shining bright lights to defend yourself against alien attack, you've gone too far. In general, society puts...

People Who Need to Pee Are Better at Lying
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People Who Need to Pee Are Better at Lying

No, really. Abstract: The Inhibitory-Spillover-Effect (ISE) on a deception task was investigated. The ISE occurs when performance in one self-control task facilitates...
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