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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
Explaining and Speculating About QUANTUM
Nicholas Weaver has a great essay explaining how the NSA's QUANTUM packet injection system works, what we know it does, what else it can possibly do, and how to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishermen Seen from Space
Cool photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Various Schneier Audio and Video Talks and Interviews
News articles about me (or with good quotes by me). My talk at the IETF Vancouver meeting on NSA and surveillance. I'm the first speaker after the administrivia...
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Security Tents
The US government sets up secure tents for the president and other officials to deal with classified material while traveling abroad. Even when Obama travels to...
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A Fraying of the Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
The public/private surveillance partnership between the NSA and corporate data collectors is starting to fray. The reason is sunlight. The publicity resulting from...
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Microsoft Retiring SHA-1 in 2016
I think this is a good move on Microsoft's part: Microsoft is recommending that customers and CA's stop using SHA-1 for cryptographic applications, including use...
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Another QUANTUMINSERT Attack Example
Der Speigel is reporting that the GCHQ used QUANTUMINSERT to direct users to fake LinkedIn and Slashdot pages run by -- this code name is not in the article --reacted...
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Cryptographic Blunders Revealed by Adobe's Password Leak
Adobe lost 150 million customer passwords. Even worse, they had a pretty dumb cryptographic hash system protecting those passwords.
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Bizarre Online Gambling Movie-Plot Threat
This article argues that online gambling is a strategic national threat because terrorists could use it to launder money. The Harper demonstration showed the technology...
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Dan Geer Explains the Government Surveillance Mentality
This talk by Dan Geer explains the NSA mindset of "collect everything": I previously worked for a data protection company. Our product was, and I believe still...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Tree Yarn-Bombed
This tree in San Mateo, CA, has been turned into a giant blue squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Schneier on Security
Another Snowden Lesson: People Are the Weak Security Link
There's a story that Edward Snowden successfully socially engineered other NSA employees into giving him their passwords.
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Why the Government Should Help Leakers
In the Information Age, it's easier than ever to steal and publish data. Corporations and governments have to adjust to their secrets being exposed, regularly. ...
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Risk-Based Authentication
I like this idea of giving each individual login attempt a risk score, based on the characteristics of the attempt: The risk score estimates the risk associated...
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Deception in Fruit Flies
The wings of the Goniurellia tridens fruit fly have images of an ant on them, to deceive predators: "When threatened, the fly flashes its wings to give the appearance...
From Schneier on Security
The Story of the Bomb Squad at the Boston Marathon
This is interesting reading, but I'm left wanting more. What are the lessons here? How can we do this better next time? Clearly we won't be able to anticipate...
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More NSA Revelations
This New York Times story on the NSA is very good, and contains lots of little tidbits of new information gleaned from the Snowden documents. The agency’s Dishfire...
From Schneier on Security
badBIOS
Good story of badBIOS, a really nasty piece of malware. The weirdest part is how it uses ultrasonic sound to jump air gaps. Ruiu said he arrived at the theory...
From Schneier on Security