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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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Programming No-Fly Zones into Drones
DJI is programming no-fly zones into its drone software. Here's how it'll work. The update will add a list of GPS coordinates to the drone's computer that tells...
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Electronic Surveillance Failures Leading up to the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Long New York Times article based on "former American and Indian officials and classified documents disclosed by Edward J. Snowden" outlining the intelligence failures...
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Understanding NSA Malware
Here are two essays trying to understand NSA malware and how it works, in light of the enormous number of documents released by Speigel recently....
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National Academies Report on Bulk Intelligence Collection
In January, the National Academies of Science (NAS) released a report on the bulk collection of signals intelligence. Basically, a year previously President Obama...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How to Fish for Squid
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife explains how to fish for squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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NSA Using Hacker Research and Results
In the latest article based on the Snowden documents, the Intercept is reporting that the NSA and GCHQ are piggy-backing on the work of hackers: In some cases,...
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GPG Financial Difficulties
Werner Koch, who has been maintaining the GPG email encryption program since 1997, is going broke and considering quitting. Updates to the article say that, because...
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Tracking Bitcoin Scams
Interesting paper: "There's No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams," by Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. Abstract...
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Obama Says Terrorism Is Not an Existential Threat
In an interview this week, President Obama said that terrorism does not pose an existential threat: What I do insist on is that we maintain a proper perspective...
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Texas School Overreaction
Seems that a Texas school has suspended a 9-year-old for threatening another student with a replica One Ring. (Yes, that One Ring.) I've written about this sort...
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Hiding a Morse Code Message in a Pop Song
In Colombia: The team began experimenting with Morse code using various percussion instruments and a keyboard. They learned that operators skilled in Morse code...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Large Squid Washes up on Greek Beach
No mention of the species, but the photo is a depressing one. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Co3 Systems Is Expanding into Europe
This was supposed to be a secret until the middle of February, but we've been found out. We already have European customers; this is our European office. And, by...
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Operating a Fake Bank
Here's a story of a fake bank in China -- a real bank, not an online bank -- that stole $32m from depositors over a year. Pro tip: real banks never offer 2%/week...
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Canada Spies on Internet Downloads
Another story from the Snowden documents: According to the documents, the LEVITATION program can monitor downloads in several countries across Europe, the Middle...
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Subconscious Keys
I missed this paper when it was first published in 2012: "Neuroscience Meets Cryptography: Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks" Abstract...
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Police Using Radar that Sees Through Walls
In the latest example of a military technology that has secretly been used by the police, we have radar guns that can see through walls....
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The IDEA Encryption Algorithm with a 128-bit Block Length
Here's an IDEA-variant with a 128-bit block length. While I think it's a great idea to bring IDEA up to a modern block length, the paper has none of the cryptanalysis...
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Basaaly Moalin: The One "Terrorist" Caught by Section 215 Surveillance
Remember back in 2013 when the then-director of the NSA Keith Alexander claimed that Section 215 bulk telephone metadata surveillance stopped "fifty-four different...
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