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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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How to Stop an Insider from Stealing All Your Secrets
This article from Communications of the ACM outlines some of the security measures the NSA could, and should, have had in place to stop someone like Snowden. Mostly...
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Forged SSL Certificates Pervasive on the Internet
About 0.2% of all SSL certificates are forged. This is the first time I've ever seen a number based on real data. News article: Of 3.45 million real-world connections...
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Is Antivirus Dead?
Symantec declared anti-virus dead, and Brian Krebs writes a good response. He's right: antivirus won't protect you from the ever-increasing percentage of malware...
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Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semifinalists
On April 1, I announced the Seventh Movie Plot Threat Contest: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous surveillance...
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Espionage vs. Surveillance
According to NSA documents published in Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide, we now know that the NSA spies on embassies and missions all over the world...
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New Al Qaeda Encryption Software
The Web intelligence company Recorded Future is reporting -- picked up by the Wall Street Journal -- that al Qaeda is using new encryption software in the wake...
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Computer Forensics in Fiction
New television show -- CSI: Cyber. I hope they have some good technical advisers, but I doubt they do....
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New NSA Snowden Documents
Glenn Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide, has been published today. There are about 100 pages of NSA documents on the book's website. I haven't gone through them...
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Steganography in Tweets
Clever, but make sure to heed the caveats in the final two paragraphs....
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Internet Subversion
In addition to turning the Internet into a worldwide surveillance platform, the NSA has surreptitiously weakened the products, protocols, and standards we all use...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Evolutionary Purpose of Pain
A new study shows that Doryteuthis pealei in pain -- or whatever passes for pain in that species -- has heightened sensory sensitivity and heightened reactions....
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Putin Requires Russian Bloggers to Register with the Government
This is not good news. Widely known as the "bloggers law," the new Russian measure specifies that any site with more than 3,000 visitors daily will be considered...
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Retelling of Stories Increases Bias
Interesting experiment shows that the retelling of stories increases conflict and bias. For their study, which featured 196 undergraduates, the researchers created...
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Correspondence Between the NSA and Google Leaked
Al Jazeera is reporting on leaked emails (not leaked by Snowden, but by someone else) detailing close ties between the NSA and Google. There are no smoking guns...
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Fearing Google
Mathias Dopfner writes an open letter explaining why he fears Google: We know of no alternative which could offer even partially comparable technological prerequisites...
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The Economics of Video Game Cheating
Interesting article on the business of selling enhancements that allow you to cheat in online video games....
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Friday Squid Blogging: How Flying Squid Fly
Someone has finally proven how: How do these squid go from swimming to flying? Four phases of flight are described in the research: launching, jetting, gliding...
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Unusual Electronic Voting Machine Threat Model
Rats have destroyed dozens of electronic voting machines by eating the cables. It would have been a better story if the rats had zeroed out the machines after the...
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Analysis of the FBI's Failure to Stop the Boston Marathon Bombings
Detailed response and analysis of the inspectors general report on the Boston Marathon bombings: Two opposite mistakes in an after-the-fact review of a terrorist...
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