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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
The 2013 Cryptologic History Symposium
The 2013 Cryptologic History Symposium, sponsored by the NSA, will be held at John Hopkins University this October.
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NSA Increasing Security by Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins
General Keith Alexander thinks he can improve security by automating sysadmin duties such that 90% of them can be fired: Using technology to automate much of the...
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Security at Sports Stadiums
Lots of sports stadiums have instituted Draconian new rules. Here are the rules for St. Louis Rams games: Fans will be able to carry the following style and size...
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Friday Squid Blog: Rickshaw Cart Woodblock Print
With a squid. 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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Lavabit E-Mail Service Shut Down
Lavabit, the more-secure e-mail service that Edward Snowden -- among others -- used, has abruptly shut down. From the message on their homepage: I have been forced...
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Latest Movie-Plot Threat: Explosive-Dipped Clothing
It's being reported, although there's no indication of where this rumor is coming from or what it's based on. ...the new tactic allows terrorists to dip ordinary...
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Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter just rolled out a pretty nice two-factor authentication system using your smart phone as the second factor: The new two-factor system works like this....
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Kip Hawley on Fixing the TSA
The further Kip Hawley has gotten from running the TSA, the more sense he has started to make. This is pretty good.
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Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
In July 2012, responding to allegations that the video-chat service Skype -- owned by Microsoft -- was changing its protocols to make it possible for the government...
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Has Tor Been Compromised?
There's speculation that the FBI is responsible for an exploit that compromised the Tor anonymity service. Note that Tor nodes installed or updated after June...
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NSA Surveillance and Mission Creep
Last month, I wrote about the potential for mass surveillance mission creep: the tendency for the vast NSA surveillance apparatus to be used for other, lesser,already...
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The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carryenormous...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Watch
I like watches with no numbers. 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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XKeyscore
The Guardian discusses a new secret NSA program: XKeyscore. It's the desktop system that allows NSA agents to spy on anyone over the Internet in real time. It...
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Cryptography Engineering Book Review
Good review of the strengths and weaknesses of Cryptography Engineering and Applied Cryptography. Best -- at least to me -- is the list of things missing, which...
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False Positives and Ubiquitous Surveillance
Searching on Google for a pressure cooker and backpacks got one family investigated by the police. More stories and comments. This seems not to be the NSA eavesdropping...
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Economist Cyberwar Debate
Richard Bejtlich and Thomas Rid (author of the excellent book Cyber War Will Not Take Place) debate the cyberwar threat on the Economist website.
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Scientists Banned from Revealing Details of Car-Security Hack
The UK has banned researchers from revealing details of security vulnerabilities in car locks. In 2008, Phillips brought a similar suit against researchers who...
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Brian Krebs Harassed
This is what happens when you're a security writer and you piss off the wrong people: they conspire to have heroin mailed to you, and then to tip off the police...
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