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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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Corporations Misusing Our Data
In the Internet age, we have no choice but to entrust our data with private companies: e-mail providers, service providers, retailers, and so on. We realize that...
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Olfactory Surveillance
The Denver police are using olfactometers to measure the concentration of cannabis in the air. I haven't found any technical information about these devices, their...
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Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm
This talk (and paper) describe a lattice-based public-key algorithm called Soliloquy developed by GCHQ, and a quantum-computer attack on it. News article....
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The Future of Auditory Surveillance
Interesting essay on the future of speech recognition, microphone miniaturization, and the future ubiquity of auditory surveillance....
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Putting NSA/GCHQ Spying Together
This is a really good analysis of how the NSA/GCHQ spying programs actually work. It's nice that we finally have enough documents public that we can start putting...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bikes
Squid Bikes is a California brand. Article from Velo News. 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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Economic Failures of HTTPS Encryption
Interesting paper: "Security Collapse of the HTTPS Market." From the conclusion: Recent breaches at CAs have exposed several systemic vulnerabilities and market...
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"Cooperating with the Future"
This is an interesting paper -- the full version is behind a paywall -- about how we as humans can motivate people to cooperate with future generations. Abstract...
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New Snowden Documents Show GCHQ Paying Cable & Wireless for Access
A new story based on the Snowden documents and published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung shows how the GCHQ worked with Cable & Wireless -- acquired...
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FBI Agents Pose as Repairmen to Bypass Warrant Process
This is a creepy story. The FBI wanted access to a hotel guest's room without a warrant. So agents broke his Internet connection, and then posed as Internet technicians...
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Regin: Another Military-Grade Malware
Regin is another military-grade surveillance malware (tech details from Symantec and Kaspersky). It seems to have been in operation between 2008 and 2011. The Intercept...
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The Security Underpinnnings of Cryptography
Nice article on some of the security assumptions we rely on in cryptographic algorithms....
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New Kryptos Clue
Jim Sanborn has given he world another clue to the fourth cyphertext in his Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters. Older posts on Kryptos....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Cognition
Tales of cephalopod behavior, including octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses. Cephalopod Cognition, published by Cambridge University Press, is currently...
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Pre-Snowden Debate About NSA Call-Records Collection Program
Reuters is reporting that in 2009, several senior NSA officials objected to the NSA call-records collection program. The now-retired NSA official, a longtime code...
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Citadel Malware Steals Password Manager Master Passwords
Citadel is the first piece of malware I know of that specifically steals master passwords from password managers. Note that my own Password Safe is a target....
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A New Free CA
Announcing Let's Encrypt, a new free certificate authority. This is a joint project of EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and the University of Michigan. This is an absolutely...
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Whatsapp Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
Whatapp is now offering end-to-end message encryption: Whatsapp will integrate the open-source software Textsecure, created by privacy-focused non-profit Open Whisper...
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Snarky 1992 NSA Report on Academic Cryptography
The NSA recently declassified a report on the Eurocrypt '92 conference. Honestly, I share some of the writer's opinions on the more theoretical stuff. I know it's...
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