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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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Backdoor Built into Android Firmware
In 2017, some Android phones came with a backdoor pre-installed: Criminals in 2017 managed to get an advanced backdoor preinstalled on Android devices before they...
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Fake News and Pandemics
When the next pandemic strikes, we'll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure...
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How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works
Matthew Green intelligently speculates about how Apple's new "Find My" feature works. If you haven't already been inspired by the description above, let me phrase...
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Hacking Hardware Security Modules
Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module (HSM) talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technical presentation...
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Risks of Password Managers
Stuart Schechter writes about the security risks of using a password manager. It's a good piece, and nicely discusses the trade-offs around password managers: which...
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Maciej Cegłowski on Privacy in the Information Age
Maciej Cegłowski has a really good essay explaining how to think about privacy today: For the purposes of this essay, I'll call it "ambient privacy" -- the understanding...
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Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race
According to foreign policy experts and the defense establishment, the United States is caught in an artificial intelligence arms race with China -- one with serious...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Climate Change Could be Good for Squid
Basically, they thrive in a high CO2 environment, because it doesn't bother them and makes their prey weaker. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at Oxford University on Monday...
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Computers and Video Surveillance
It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched...
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Video Surveillance by Computer
The ACLU's Jay Stanley has just published a fantastic report: "The Dawn of Robot Surveillance" (blog post here) Basically, it lays out a future of ubiquitous video...
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Report on the Stalkerware Industry
Citizen Lab just published an excellent report on the stalkerware industry....
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Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot
How in the world did I not know about this for three years? Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that always wins at rock-paper-scissors...
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Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
Last week, I hosted the eighteenth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Harvard. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks....
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Employment Scam
Interesting story of an old-school remote-deposit capture fraud scam, wrapped up in a fake employment scam. Slashdot thread....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Possible New Squid Species
NOAA video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
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iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police
"Hey Siri; I'm getting pulled over" can be a shortcut: Once the shortcut is installed and configured, you just have to say, for example, "Hey Siri, I'm getting...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2019
Today is the second day of the twelfth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, which I am hosting at Harvard University. SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop...
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Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS
Citing security concerns, the Chinese military wants to replace Windows with its own custom operating system: Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and Vault7...
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