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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Dynamic Biophotonics in Squid
Female squid exhibit sexually dimorphic tunable leucophores and iridocytes. Just so you know. Here's the story in more accessible language. As usual, you can...
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Book Review: Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Thomas Rid, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Oxford University Press, 2013. Cyber war is possibly the most dangerous buzzword of the Internet era. The fear-inducing...
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Cognitive Biases About Violence as a Negotiating Tactic
Interesting paper: Max Abrahms, "The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics," International Studies Quarterly, 2013: ...
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DARPA Contest for Fully-Automated Network Defense
DARPA is looking for a fully-automated network defense system: What if computers had a "check engine" light that could indicate new, novel security problems? What...
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Code Names for NSA Exploit Tools
This is from a Snowden document released by Le Monde: General Term Descriptions: HIGHLANDS: Collection from Implants VAGRANT: Collection of Computer Screens MAGNETIC...
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Dry Ice Bombs at LAX
The news story about the guy who left dry ice bombs in restricted areas of LAX is really weird. I can't get worked up over it, though. Dry ice bombs are a harmless...
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Can I Be Trusted?
SlashDot asks the question: I'm a big fan of Bruce Schneier, but just to play devil's advocate, let's say, hypothetically, that Schneier is actually in cahoots...
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Defending Against Crypto Backdoors
We already know the NSA wants to eavesdrop on the Internet. It has secret agreements with telcos to get direct access to bulk Internet traffic. It has massive systems...
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The Trajectories of Government and Corporate Surveillance
Historically, surveillance was difficult and expensive. Over the decades, as technology advanced, surveillance became easier and easier. Today, we find ourselves...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Fiona Apple Wears a Squid as a Hat in New Video
Even I think this is weird.
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D-Link Router Backdoor
Several versions of D-Link router firmware contain a backdoor. Just set the browser's user agent string to "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide," and you're in. (Hint...
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Identifying Cell Phones Through Sensor Imperfections
There seems to be a bunch of research into uniquely identifying cell phones through unique analog characteristics of the various embedded sensors. These sortsSlashdot...
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"A Court Order Is an Insider Attack"
Ed Felten makes a strong argument that a court order is exactly the same thing as an insider attack: To see why, consider two companies, which we'll call Lavabit...
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SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance...
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iPhone Sensor Surveillance
The new iPhone has a motion sensor chip, and that opens up new opportunities for surveillance: The M7 coprocessors introduce functionality that some may instinctively...
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NSA Harvesting Contact Lists
A new Snowden document shows that the NSA is harvesting contact lists -- e-mail address books, IM buddy lists, etc. -- from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook,...
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New Secure Smart Phone App
It's hard not to poke fun at this press release for Safeslinger, a new cell phone security app from Carnegie Mellon. "SafeSlinger provides you with the confidence...
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Massive MIMO Cryptosystem
New paper: "Physical-Layer Cryptography Through Massive MIMO." Abstract: We propose the new technique of physical-layer cryptography based on using a massive MIMO...
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Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random
New paper: "Security Analysis of Pseudo-Random Number Generators with Input: /dev/random is not Robust, by Yevgeniy Dodis, David Pointcheval, Sylvain Ruhault, Damien...
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