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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
Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator
Telepathwords is a pretty clever research project that tries to evaluate password strength. It's different from normal strength meters, and I think better. Telepathwords...
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Heartwave Biometric
Here's a new biometric I know nothing about: The wristband relies on authenticating identity by matching the overall shape of the user's heartwave (captured via...
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The Problem with EULAs
Some apps are being distributed with secret Bitcoin-mining software embedded in them. Coins found are sent back to the app owners, of course. And to make it legal...
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Evading Airport Security
The news is reporting about Evan Booth, who builds weaponry out of items you can buy after airport security. It's clever stuff. It's not new, though. Peopleexplained...
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Keeping Track of All the Snowden Documents
As more and more media outlets from all over the world continue to report on the Snowden documents, it's harder and harder to keep track of what has been released...
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The TQP Patent
One of the things I do is expert witness work in patent litigations. Often, it's defending companies against patent trolls. One of the patents I have worked on...
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How Antivirus Companies Handle State-Sponsored Malware
Since we learned that the NSA has surreptitiously weakened Internet security so it could more easily eavesdrop, we've been wondering if it's done anything to antivirus...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Worm Discovered
This squid-like worm -- Teuthidodrilus samae -- is new to science. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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More on Stuxnet
Ralph Langer has written the definitive analysis of Stuxnet: short, popular version, and long, technical version. Stuxnet is not really one weapon, but two. The...
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Tor Appliance
Safeplug is an easy-to-use Tor appliance. I like that it can also act as a Tor exit node.
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The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
This is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA. It carries out its own signals intelligence...
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US Working to Kill UN Resolutions to Limit International Surveillance
This story should get more publicity than it has.
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Surveillance as a Business Model
Google recently announced that it would start including individual users' names and photos in some ads. This means that if you rate some product positively, your...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Magnapinna Squid Photo
Neat photo. Video, too. 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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Rerouting Internet Traffic by Attacking BGP
Renesys is reporting that Internet traffic is being manipulatively rerouted, presumably for eavesdropping purposes. The attacks exploit flaws in the Border Gateway...
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How to Avoid Getting Arrested
The tips are more psychological than security.
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Fokirtor
Fokirtor is a Linux Trojan that exfiltrates traffic by inserting it into SSH connections. It looks very well-designed and -constructed.
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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...
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