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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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Trust in IT
Ignore the sensationalist headline. This article is a good summary of the need for trust in IT, and provides some ideas for how to enable more of it. Virtually...
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Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers
Yesterday, we learned that the NSA received all calling records from Verizon customers for a three-month period starting in April. That's everything except themetadata...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Comic
A squid comic about the importance of precise language in security warnings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Audio Interview with Me
In this podcast interview, I talk about security, power, and the various things I have been thinking about recently.
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A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62% -- in a few hours...
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The Cost of Terrorism in Pakistan
This study claims "terrorism has cost Pakistan around 33.02% of its real national income" between the years 1973 and 2008, or about 1% per year. The St. Louis$100...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013)
I'm at the Sixth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013). This year we're in Los Angeles, at USC -- hosted by CREATE. My description...
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The Problems with CALEA-II
The FBI wants a new law that will make it easier to wiretap the Internet. Although its claim is that the new law will only maintain the status quo, it's reallyeverything...
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The Security Risks of Unregulated Google Search
Someday I need to write an essay on the security risks of secret algorithms that become part of our infrastructure. This paper gives one example of that. Could...
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The Problems with Managing Privacy by Asking and Giving Consent
New paper from the Harvard Law Review by Daniel Solove: "Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma": Privacy self-management takes refuge in consent. It...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pronouns
The translated version of a Spanish menu contains the entry "squids in his (her, your) ink." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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The Rise of Amateurs Recording Events
Interesting article on a greatly increased aspect of surveillance: "the ordinary citizen who by chance finds himself in a position to record events of great public...
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Why We Lie
This, by Judge Kozinski, is from a Federal court ruling about false statements and First Amendment protection Saints may always tell the truth, but for mortals...
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Are We Finally Thinking Sensibly About Terrorism?
This article wonders if we are: Yet for pretty much the first time there has been a considerable amount of media commentary seeking to put terrorism in context...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Risk Perception
From his Facebook page: An illustration of how the news are largely created, bloated and magnified by journalists. I have been in Lebanon for the past 24h, and...
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The Politics of Security in a Democracy
Terrorism causes fear, and we overreact to that fear. Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Giant Squid
How does he know this? Chris Cosentino, the Bay Area’s "Offal Chef" at Incanto in San Francisco and PIGG at Umamicatessen in Los Angeles, opted for the most intimidating...
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