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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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SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance...
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iPhone Sensor Surveillance
The new iPhone has a motion sensor chip, and that opens up new opportunities for surveillance: The M7 coprocessors introduce functionality that some may instinctively...
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NSA Harvesting Contact Lists
A new Snowden document shows that the NSA is harvesting contact lists -- e-mail address books, IM buddy lists, etc. -- from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook,...
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New Secure Smart Phone App
It's hard not to poke fun at this press release for Safeslinger, a new cell phone security app from Carnegie Mellon. "SafeSlinger provides you with the confidence...
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Massive MIMO Cryptosystem
New paper: "Physical-Layer Cryptography Through Massive MIMO." Abstract: We propose the new technique of physical-layer cryptography based on using a massive MIMO...
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Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random
New paper: "Security Analysis of Pseudo-Random Number Generators with Input: /dev/random is not Robust, by Yevgeniy Dodis, David Pointcheval, Sylvain Ruhault, Damien...
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Fingerprinting Burner Phones
In one of the documents recently released by the NSA as a result of an EFF lawsuit, there's discussion of a specific capability of a call records database to identify...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 30-Foot Giant Squid Washes Ashore
A 30-foot-long giant squid has washed ashore in Cantabria, Spain. It died at sea, with a broken tentacle. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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Stuff I Say
It's a Tumblr feed. Right now there are only six posts, all a year old. Presumably that will change soon. To clarify: I have nothing to do with the feed, and...
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New Low in Election Fraud
Azerbaijan achieves a new low in voter fraud. They government accidentally publishes the results of the election before the polls open. The mistake came whenanother...
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Air Gaps
Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor...
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Breaking Taiwan's Digital ID
There's a serious random-number generation flaw in the cryptographic systems used to protect the Taiwanese digital ID. Article and paper.
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A New Postal Privacy Product
The idea is basically to use indirection to hide physical addresses. You would get a random number to give to your correspondents, and the post office would use...
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The NSA's New Risk Analysis
As I recently reported in the Guardian, the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent...
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Me on Surveillance
This is a video of me talking about surveillance and privacy, both relating to the NSA and more generally.
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Why It's Important to Publish the NSA Programs
The Guardian recently reported on how the NSA targets Tor users, along with details of how it uses centrally placed servers on the Internet to attack individual...
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Silk Road Author Arrested Due to Bad Operational Security
Details of how the FBI found the administrator of Silk Road, a popular black market e-commerce site. Despite the elaborate technical underpinnings, however, the...
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How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID
The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities...
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