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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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ISIS Encryption Opsec
Tidbits from the New York Times: The final phase of Mr. Hame's training took place at an Internet cafe in Raqqa, where an Islamic State computer specialist handed...
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Lawful Hacking and Continuing Vulnerabilities
The FBI's legal battle with Apple is over, but the way it ended may not be good news for anyone. Federal agents had been seeking to compel Apple to break the security...
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Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions
Research paper: Elizabeth Stoycheff, "Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring": Abstract: Since...
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A 1976 Congressional Report on Surveillance
Here's a 1,300-page Congressional report on "surveillance technology" from 1976....
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Power on the Internet
Interesting paper: Yochai Benkler, "Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power," Daedelus, winter 2016: Abstract: The original Internet design combined technical,...
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Memphis Airport Inadvertently Gets Security Right
A local newspaper recently tested airport security at Memphis Airport: Our crew sat for 30 minutes in the passenger drop-off area Tuesday without a word from anyone...
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Interesting Lottery Terminal Hack
It was a manipulation of the terminals. The 5 Card Cash game was suspended in November after Connecticut Lottery and state Department of Consumer Protection officials...
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FBI vs. Apple: Who Is Helping the FBI?
On Monday, the FBI asked the court for a two-week delay in a scheduled hearing on the San Bernardino iPhone case, because some "third party" approached it with...
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Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks
Writing a magazine column is always an exercise in time travel. I'm writing these words in early December. You're reading them in February. This means anything...
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FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List
The FBI just added two members of the Syrian Electronic Army to its cyber most-wanted list. I had no idea that the FBI had a cyber most-wanted list....
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1981 US Document on Encryption Policy
This was newly released under FOIA at my request: Victor C. Williams, Jr., Donn B. Parker, and Charles C. Wood, "Impacts of Federal Policy Options for Nonmilitary...
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Observations on the Surveillance that Resulted in the Capture of Salah Abdeslam
Interesting analysis from The Grugq: Bottom Line Up Front Intelligence agencies must cooperate more rapidly and proactively to counter ISIS' rapid and haphazard...
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iMessage Encryption Flaw Found and Fixed
Matthew Green and team found and reported a significant iMessage encryption flaw last year. Green suspected there might be a flaw in iMessage last year after he...
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Brennan Center Report on NSA Overseas Spying and Executive Order 12333
The Brennan Center has released a report on EO 12333, the executive order that regulates the NSA's overseas surveillance. Much of what the NSA does here is secret...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Braised Squid With Harissa and Olives
Recommended recipe. 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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I'm a Wall Street Journal Acrostic Answer
A quote from Data and Goliath is the answer to a Wall Street Journal acrostic. It's not the same as being a New York Times crossword puzzle answer, but it's close...
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Companies Handing Source Code Over to Governments
ZDNet has an article on US government pressure on software companies to hand over copies of their source code. There's no details because no one is talking on the...
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New NIST Encryption Guidelines
NIST has published a draft of their new standard for encryption use: "NIST Special Publication 800-175B, Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal...
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