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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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Apple's iMessage Encryption Seems to Be Pretty Good
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has complained (in a classified report, not publicly) that Apple's iMessage end-to-end encryption scheme can't be broken. On the...
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Skein Collision Competition
Xkcd had a Skein collision competition. The contest is over -- Carnegie Mellon University won, with 384 (out of 1024) mismatched bits -- but it's explained here...
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IT for Oppression
Whether it's Syria using Facebook to help identify and arrest dissidents or China using its "Great Firewall" to limit access to international news throughout the...
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Narratives of Secrecy
How people talked about the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan project.
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Sixth Movie-Plot Threat Contest
It's back, after a two-year hiatus. Terrorism is boring; cyberwar is in. Cyberwar, and its kin: cyber Pearl Harbor, cyber 9/11, cyber Armageddon. (Or make up...
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What I've Been Thinking About
I'm starting to think about my next book, which will be about power and the Internet -- from the perspective of security. My objective will be to describe current...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bomb Discovered in Squid at Market
Really: An unexploded bomb was found inside a squid when the fish was slaughtered at a fish market in Guangdong province. Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to be...
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The Dangers of Surveillance
Interesting article, "The Dangers of Surveillance," by Neil M. Richards, Harvard Law Review, 2013. From the abstract: ....We need a better account of the dangers...
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New RC4 Attack
This is a really clever attack on the RC4 encryption algorithm as used in TLS. We have found a new attack against TLS that allows an attacker to recover a limited...
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Unwitting Drug Smugglers
This is a story about a physicist who got taken in by an imaginary Internet girlfriend and ended up being arrested in Argentina for drug smuggling. Readers of...
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Security Awareness Training
Should companies spend money on security awareness training for their employees? It's a contentious topic, with respected experts on both sides of the debate.right...
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The NSA's Cryptolog
The NSA has published declassified versions of its Cryptolog newsletter. All the issues from Aug 1974 through Summer 1997 are on the web, although there are some...
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Identifying People from Mobile Phone Location Data
Turns out that it's pretty easy: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Catholic University of Louvain studied 15 months' worth...
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Our Internet Surveillance State
I'm going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. governmentaccessed...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Genetics
Despite looking very different from each other and being distributed across the world's oceans, all giant squid are the same species. There's also not a lot of...
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Changes to the Blog
I have made a few changes to my blog that I'd like to talk about. The first is the various buttons associated with each post: a Facebook Like button, a Retweet...
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FBI Secretly Spying on Cloud Computer Users
Both Google and recently ruled National Security Letters unconstitutional. Not that this changes anything yet.
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Text Message Retention Policies
The FBI wants cell phone carriers to store SMS messages for a long time, enabling them to conduct surveillance backwards in time. Nothing new there -- data retention...
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