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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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Password Security at Linode
Here's something good: We have implemented sophisticated brute force protection for Linode Manager user accounts that combines a time delay on failed attempts,...
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Stolen Phone Database
This article talks about a database of stolen cell phone IDs that will be used to deny service. While I think this is a good idea, I don't know how much it would...
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Forever-Day Bugs
That's a nice turn of phrase: Forever day is a play on "zero day," a phrase used to classify vulnerabilities that come under attack before the responsible manufacturer...
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Outliers in Intelligence Analysis
From the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence: "Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community." In war you will generally find that the...
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Hawley Channels His Inner Schneier
Kip Hawley wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal on airport security. In it, he says so many sensible things that people have been forwarding it to me with...
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How Information Warfare Changes Warfare
Really interesting paper on the moral and ethical implications of cyberwar, and the use of information technology in war (drones, for example): "Information Warfare...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fiction
Great short story in Nature. 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 at RSA 2012
This is not a video of my talk at the RSA Conference earlier this year. This is a 16-minute version of that talk -- TED-like -- that the conference filmed the...
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Disguising Tor Traffic as Skype Video Calls
One of the problems with Tor traffic is that it can de detected and blocked. Here's SkypeMorph, a clever system that disguises Tor traffic as Skype video traffic...
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Bomb Threats As a Denial-of-Service Attack
The University of Pittsburgh has been the recipient of 50 bomb threats in the past two months (over 30 during the last week). Each time, the university evacuates...
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Brian Snow on Cybersecurity
Interesting video of Brian Snow speaking from last November. (Brian used to be the Technical Director of NSA's Information Assurance Directorate.) About a year...
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"Raise the Crime Rate"
I read this a couple of months ago, and I'm still not sure what I think about it. It's definitely of the most thought-provoking essays I've read this year. According...
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A Heathrow Airport Story about Trousers
Usually I don't bother posting random stories about dumb or inconsistent airport security measures. But this one is particularly interesting: "Sir, your trousers...
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Teenagers and Privacy
Good article debunking the myth that young people don't care about privacy on the Intenet. Most kids are well aware of risks, and make "fairly sophisticated" decisions...
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Laptops and the TSA
The New York Times tries to make sense of the TSA's policies on computers. Why do you have to take your tiny laptop out of your bag, but not your iPad? Their...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Art
Happy Easter. 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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A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response
The National Academies Press has published Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response. When a nation or region prepares...
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James Randi on Magicians and the Security Mindset
Okay, so he doesn't use that term. But he explains how a magician's inherent ability to detect deception can be useful to science. We can't make magicians out...
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