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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Kim Jong Un Tours Frozen Squid Factory
Frozen squid makes him happy. 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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Operation Vula
"Talking to Vula" is the story of a 1980s secret communications channel between black South African leaders and others living in exile in the UK. The system used...
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Report on Syrian Malware
Fascinating report from Citizen Lab on the use of malware in the current Syrian conflict (EFF summary and Wired article).
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NSA Spying: Who Do You Believe?
On Friday, Reuters reported that RSA entered a secret contract to make DUAL_EC_PRNG the default random number generator in the BSAFE toolkit. DUA_EC_PRNG is now...
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Friday Squid Blogging: "What Does the Squid Say?"
Minecraft parody. 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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Yes, I'm Leaving BT
The Register reported that I am leaving BT at the end of the year. It quoted BT as saying: We hired Bruce because of his thought leadership in security and as...
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Eben Moglen and I Talk about the NSA
Last week, Eben Moglen and I had a conversation about NSA surveillance. Audio and video are online.
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Acoustic Cryptanalysis
This is neat: Here, we describe a new acoustic cryptanalysis key extraction attack, applicable to GnuPG's current implementation of RSA. The attack can extract...
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Tor User Identified by FBI
Eldo Kim sent an e-mail bomb threat to Harvard so he could skip a final exam. (It's just a coincidence that I was on the Harvard campus that day.) Even though...
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Security Vulnerabilities of Legacy Code
An interesting research paper documents a "honeymoon effect" when it comes to software and vulnerabilities: attackers are more likely to find vulnerabilities in...
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Attacking Online Poker Players
This story is about how at least two professional online poker players had their hotel rooms broken into and their computers infected with malware. I agree with...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bow Tie
Snappy-looking bow tie. 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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President Obama and the Intelligence Community
Really good article from the New Yorker.
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World War II Anecdote about Trust and Security
This is an interesting story from World War II about trust: Jones notes that the Germans doubted their system because they knew the British could radio false orders...
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How the NSA Tracks Mobile Phone Data
Last week the Washington Post reported on how the NSA tracks mobile phones world-wide, and this week they followed up with source documents and more detail. Barton...
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NSA Tracks People Using Google Cookies
The Washington Post has a detailed article on how the NSA uses cookie data to track individuals. The EFF also has a good post on this. I have been writing and...
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NSA Spying on Online Gaming Worlds
The NSA is spying on chats in World of Warcraft and other games. There's lots of information -- and a good source document. While it's fun to joke about the NSA...
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Bitcoin Explanation
This is the best explanation of the Bitcoin protocol that I have read.
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