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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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Intimidating Military Personnel by Targeting Their Families
This FBI alert is interesting: (U//FOUO) In May 2015, the wife of a US military member was approached in front of her home by two Middle-Eastern males. The men...
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Incenting Drug Dealers to Snitch on Each Other
Local police are trying to convince drug dealers to turn each other in by pointing out that it reduces competition. It's a comical tactic with serious results:...
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Detecting Betrayal in Diplomacy Games
Interesting research detecting betrayal in the game of Diplomacy by analyzing interplayer messages. One harbinger was a shift in politeness. Players who were excessively...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Divers Find Squid Eggs
Divers discover a large mass of Ommastrephes bartramii eggs: Earlier this month, a team of divers swimming off the coast of Turkey discovered something unexpected...
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Meerkats that Look like Bruce Schneier
Yet another example of my surreal life. (No, I have no idea who did this.)...
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The Outing of ECHELON
Before Edward Snowden told us so much about NSA surveillance, before Mark Klein told us a little, even before 9/11, Duncan Campbell broke the story of ECHELON....
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Security for the Rest of Us
Good fictional account of an average computer user and how people understand and view security. Related: "Real World Use Cases for High-Risk Users."...
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Nicholas Weaver on iPhone Security
Excellent essay: Yes, an iPhone configured with a proper password has enough protection that, turned off, I'd be willing to hand mine over to the DGSE, NSA, or...
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Face Recognition by Thermal Imaging
New research can identify a person by reading their thermal signature in complete darkness and then matching it with ordinary photographs. Research paper: Abstract...
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Shooting Down Drones
A Kentucky man shot down a drone that was hovering in his backyard: "It was just right there," he told Ars. "It was hovering, I would never have shot it if it was...
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Vulnerabilities in Brink's Smart Safe
Brink's sells an Internet-enabled smart safe called the CompuSafe Galileo. Despite being sold as a more secure safe, it's wildly insecure: Vulnerabilities found...
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Help with Mailing List Hosting
I could use some help finding a host for my monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram. My old setup just wasn't reliable enough. I had a move planned, but that fell through...
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John Mueller on the Overblown ISIS Threat
John Mueller has a good essay on how the ISIS threat is overblown....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Russian Sailors Video Colossal Squid
It tried to steal their catch. 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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Schneier Speaking Schedule
I'm speaking at an Infoedge event at Bali Hai Golf Club in Las Vegas, at 5 PM on August 5, 2015. I'm speaking at DefCon 23 on Friday, August 7, 2015. I'm speaking...
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HAMMERTOSS: New Russian Malware
Fireeye has a detailed report of a sophisticated piece of Russian malware: HAMMERTOSS. It uses some clever techniques to hide: The Hammertoss backdoor malware looks...
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Back Doors Won't Solve Comey's Going Dark Problem
At the Aspen Security Forum two weeks ago, James Comey (and others) explicitly talked about the "going dark" problem, describing the specific scenario they are...
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Comparing the Security Practices of Experts and Non-Experts
New paper: "'...no one can hack my mind': Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices," by Iulia Ion, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo. Abstract: The state...
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The NSA, Metadata, and the Failure of Stopping 9/11
It's common wisdom that the NSA was unable to intercept phone calls from Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego to Bin Ladin in Yemen because of legal restrictions. This...
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