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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
Your Personal Data is Already Stolen
In an excellent blog post, Brian Krebs makes clear something I have been saying for a while: Likewise for individuals, it pays to accept two unfortunate and harsh...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of Chatbots
Good essay on the security risks -- to democratic discourse -- of chatbots....
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Bad Consumer Security Advice
There are lots of articles about there telling people how to better secure their computers and online accounts. While I agree with some of it, this article contains...
From Schneier on Security
The DoJ's Secret Legal Arguments to Break Cryptography
Earlier this year, the US Department of Justice made a series of legal arguments as to why Facebook should be forced to help the government wiretap Facebook Messenger...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid-Fishing Towns in Decline
It's a problem: But now, fluctuations in ocean temperatures, years of overfishing and lax regulatory oversight have drastically depleted populations of the translucent...
From Schneier on Security
Click Here to Kill Everybody News
My latest book is doing well. And I've been giving lots of talks and interviews about it. (I can recommend three interviews: the Cyberlaw podcast with Stewart Baker...
From Schneier on Security
Three-Rotor Enigma Machine Up for Auction Today
Sotheby's is auctioning off a (working, I think) three-rotor Enigma machine today. They're expecting it to sell for about $200K. I have an Enigma, but it's without...
From Schneier on Security
That Bloomberg Supply-Chain-Hack Story
Back in October, Bloomberg reported that China has managed to install backdoors into server equipment that ended up in networks belonging to -- among others --...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Takes Down a Massive Advertising Fraud Ring
The FBI announced that it dismantled a large Internet advertising fraud network, and arrested eight people: A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in federal...
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Distributing Malware By Becoming an Admin on an Open-Source Project
The module "event-steam" was infected with malware by an anonymous someone who became an admin on the project. Cory Doctorow points out that this is a clever new...
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Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government
On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use...
From Schneier on Security
How Surveillance Inhibits Freedom of Expression
In my book Data and Goliath, I write about the value of privacy. I talk about how it is essential for political liberty and justice, and for commercial fairness...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Good Squid Fishing in the Exmouth Gulf
The conditions are ideal for squid fishing in the Exmouth Gulf in West Australia. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints
Researchers are able to create fake fingerprints that result in a 20% false-positive rate. The problem is that these sensors obtain only partial images of users'...
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Information Attacks against Democracies
Democracy is an information system. That's the starting place of our new paper: "Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy." In it, we look at democracy through the...
From Schneier on Security
The PCLOB Needs a Director
The US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is looking for a director. Among other things, this board has some oversight role over the NSA. More precisely...
From Schneier on Security
What Happened to Cyber 9/11?
A recent article in the Atlantic asks why we haven't seen a"cyber 9/11" in the past fifteen or so years. (I, too, remember the increasingly frantic and fearful...
From Schneier on Security
Worst-Case Thinking Breeds Fear and Irrationality
Here's a crazy story from the UK. Basically, someone sees a man and a little girl leaving a shopping center. Instead of thinking "it must be a father and daughter...
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Israeli Surveillance Gear
The Israeli Defense Force mounted a botched raid in Gaza. They were attempting to install surveillance gear, which they ended up leaving behind. (There are photos...
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