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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
Security Analysis of Children
This is a really good paper describing the unique threat model of children in the home, and the sorts of security philosophies that are effective in dealing with...
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NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
More Snowden documents analyzed by the Guardian -- two articles -- discuss how the NSA collected e-mails and data on Internet activity of both Americans and foreigners...
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How the NSA Eavesdrops on Americans
Two weeks ago, the Guardian published two new Snowden documents. These outline how the NSA's data-collection procedures allow it to collect lots of data on Americans...
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SIMON and SPECK: New NSA Encryption Algorithms
The NSA has published some new symmetric algorithms: Abstract: In this paper we propose two families of block ciphers, SIMON and SPECK, each of which comes in...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Man Pulled Under by Squids
Video story on Animal Planet. 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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Me on EconTalk
Another audio interview; this one is mostly about security and power.
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My Talk at Google
Last week, I gave a talk at Google. It's another talk about power and security, my continually evolving topic-of-the-moment that could very well become my next...
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Preventing Cell Phone Theft through Benefit Denial
Adding a remote kill switch to cell phones would deter theft. Here we can see how the rise of the surveillance state permeates everything about computer security...
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Malware that Foils Two-Factor Authentication
This is an interesting article about a new breed of malware that also hijack's the victim's phone text messaging system, to intercept one-time passwords sent via...
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Pre-9/11 NSA Thinking
This quote is from the Spring 1997 issue of CRYPTOLOG, the internal NSA newsletter. The writer is William J. Black, Jr., the Director's Special Assistant for Information...
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Lessons from Biological Security
Nice essay: The biological world is also open source in the sense that threats are always present, largely unpredictable, and always changing. Because of this,...
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Secrecy and Privacy
Interesting article on the history of, and the relationship between, secrecy and privacy As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and...
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MAD in Cyberspace
Ron Beckstrom gives a talk (video and transcript) about "Mutually Assured Destruction," "Mutually Assured Disruption," and "Mutually Assured Dependence."
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Spear Phishing Attack Against the Financial Times
Interesting story with a lot of details.
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The Future of Satellite Surveillance
Pretty scary -- and cool. Remember, it's not any one thing that's worrisome; it's everything together.
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Friday Squid Blogging: How the Acidification of the Oceans Affects Squid
It's not good. 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