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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
How Traffic Shaping Can Help the NSA Evade Legal Oversight
New research paper on how the NSA can evade legal prohibitions against collecting Internet data and metadata on Americans by forcing domestic traffic to leave and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: WTF Evolution Features a Squid
I have always liked the "WTF, Evolution?" blog. Consistently funny, but no squid. But now they have a bit on the vampire squid. As usual, you can also use this...
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More on Hacking Team's Government Spying Software
Hacking Team is an Italian malware company that sells exploit tools to governments. Both Kaspersky Lab and Citizen Lab have published detailed reports on its capabilities...
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Pepper Spray Drones
Coming soon to a protest near you: drones that fire pepper spray bullets. Desert Wolf's website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity...
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Risks of Not Understanding a One-Way Function
New York City officials anonymized license plate data by hashing the individual plate numbers with MD5. (I know, they shouldn't have used MD5, but ignore that for...
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Could Keith Alexander's Advice Possibly Be Worth $600K a Month?
Ex-NSA director Keith Alexander has his own consulting company: IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. His advice does not come cheap: Alexander offered to provide advice to...
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Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
The second Quadrennial Homeland Security Review has been published by the Department of Homeland Security. At 100+ pages, I'm not going to be reading it, but I...
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Defending Against Algorithm Substitution Attacks
Interesting paper: M. Bellare, K. Paterson, and P. Rogaway, "Security of Symmetric Encryption against Mass Surveillance." Abstract: Motivated by revelations concerning...
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Building Retro Reflectors
A group of researchers have reverse-engineered the NSA's retro reflectors, and has recreated them using software-defined radio (SDR): An SDR Ossmann designed and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Ruth Reichl Cooks Squid
Quick and easy recipe. 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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Co3 Systems Is Hiring
At the beginning of the year, I announced that I'd joined Co3 Systems as its CTO. Co3 Systems makes coordination software -- what I hear called workflow management...
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More Details on NSA Tapping the Internet Backbone
Two new stories: one from Der Spiegel in Germany (also reported in the Intercept) and the other from Dagbladet in Denmark (again, also reported in the Intercept)...
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Paying People to Infect their Computers
Research paper: "It’s All About The Benjamins: An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice, by Nicolas Christin, Serge Egelman, Timothy...
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The Democratization of Surveillance
MarketWatch has a list of five apps for spying on your spouse....
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Story of a $10 Million Remote Scam
This is a bizarre story of an almost-happened $10 million scam. It reads like an obviously phony Nigerian 419 scam, but it actually fooled what seem to be smart...
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Use of Social Media by ISIS
Here are two articles about how effectively the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- the militant group that has just taken over half of Iraq -- is using social...
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The State of Cyberinsurance
Good essay on the current state of cyberinsurance. So where does that leave the growing cyber insurance industry as it tries to figure out what losses it should...
From Schneier on Security