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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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Evading Internet Censorship
This research project by Brandon Wiley -- the tool is called "Dust" -- looks really interesting. Here's the description of his Defcon talk: Abstract: The greatest...
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More on NSA Data Collection
There's an article from Wednesday's Wall Street Journal that gives more details about the NSA's data collection efforts. The system has the capacity to reach roughly...
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Detaining David Miranda
Last Sunday, David Miranda was detained while changing planes at London Heathrow Airport by British authorities for nine hours under a controversial British law...
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Protecting Against Leakers
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing...
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"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act"
Orin Kerr envisions what the ECPA should look like today: Abstract: In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Research in How Squids Change Color
Interesting: Structural colors rely exclusively on the density and shape of the material rather than its chemical properties. The latest research from the UCSB...
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How Security Becomes Banal
Interesting paper: "The Banality of Security: The Curious Case of Surveillance Cameras," by Benjamin Goold, Ian Loader, and Angélica Thumala (full paper is behind...
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Hacking Consumer Devices
Last weekend, a Texas couple apparently discovered that the electronic baby monitor in their children's bedroom had been hacked. According to a local TV station...
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Susan Landau Article on the Snowden Documents
Really good article by Susan Landau on the Snowden documents and what they mean.
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Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption
There have been a bunch of articles about an information theory paper with vaguely sensational headlines like "Encryption is less secure than we thought" and "Research...
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Teens and Privacy
Not much surprising in this new survey. Many teens ages 12-17 report that they usually figure out how to manage content sharing and privacy settings on their own...
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The Cryptopocalypse
There was a presentation at Black Hat last month warning us of a "factoring cryptopocalypse": a moment when factoring numbers and solving the discrete log problem...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink as Food Coloring
Alton Brown suggests it for ice cream. 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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Wired Names "Schneier on Security" to Best Blog List
I made the list of Wired's best "Government and Security" blogs.
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Management Issues in Terrorist Organizations
Terrorist organizations have the same management problems as other organizations, and new ones besides: Terrorist leaders also face a stubborn human resources...
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The NSA is Commandeering the Internet
It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the...
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Time Magazine Names "Schneier on Security" to Best Blog List
My blog as made the Time magazine "The 25 Best Bloggers 2013 Edition" list. I can't believe this was published ten days ago, and I'm only just finding out about...
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Stories from MI5
This essay is filled historical MI5 stories -- often bizarre, sometimes amusing. My favorite: It was recently revealed that back in the 1970s -- at the height...
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Circumventing Communications Blackouts
Rangzen looks like a really interesting ad hoc mesh networking system to circumvent government-imposed communications blackouts. I am particularly interested in...
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