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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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Has Tor Been Compromised?
There's speculation that the FBI is responsible for an exploit that compromised the Tor anonymity service. Note that Tor nodes installed or updated after June...
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NSA Surveillance and Mission Creep
Last month, I wrote about the potential for mass surveillance mission creep: the tendency for the vast NSA surveillance apparatus to be used for other, lesser,already...
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The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carryenormous...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Watch
I like watches with no numbers. 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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XKeyscore
The Guardian discusses a new secret NSA program: XKeyscore. It's the desktop system that allows NSA agents to spy on anyone over the Internet in real time. It...
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Cryptography Engineering Book Review
Good review of the strengths and weaknesses of Cryptography Engineering and Applied Cryptography. Best -- at least to me -- is the list of things missing, which...
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False Positives and Ubiquitous Surveillance
Searching on Google for a pressure cooker and backpacks got one family investigated by the police. More stories and comments. This seems not to be the NSA eavesdropping...
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Economist Cyberwar Debate
Richard Bejtlich and Thomas Rid (author of the excellent book Cyber War Will Not Take Place) debate the cyberwar threat on the Economist website.
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Scientists Banned from Revealing Details of Car-Security Hack
The UK has banned researchers from revealing details of security vulnerabilities in car locks. In 2008, Phillips brought a similar suit against researchers who...
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Brian Krebs Harassed
This is what happens when you're a security writer and you piss off the wrong people: they conspire to have heroin mailed to you, and then to tip off the police...
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Neighborhood Security: Feeling vs. Reality
Research on why some neighborhoods feel safer: Salesses and collaborators Katja Schechtner and César A. Hidalgo built an online comparison tool using Google Street...
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Really Clever Bank Card Fraud
This is a really clever social engineering attack against a bank-card holder: It all started, according to the police, on the Saturday night where one of this...
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Obama's Continuing War Against Leakers
The Obama Administration has a comprehensive "insider threat" program to detect leakers from within government. This is pre-Snowden. Not surprisingly, the combination...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Song
It's "Sparky the Giant Squid." 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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NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA Did
We interrupt this blog for some important inter-agency rivalry. The fourth part is still uncracked, though. Older links.
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Secret Information Is More Trusted
This is an interesting, if slightly disturbing, result: In one experiment, we had subjects read two government policy papers from 1995, one from the State Department...
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Details on NSA/FBI Eavesdropping
We're starting to see Internet companies talk about the mechanics of how the US government spies on their users. Here, a Utah ISP owner describes his experiences...
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Poached Eggs
The story of people who poach and collect rare eggs, and the people who hunt them down. Securing wildlife against poachers is a difficult problem, especially when...
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Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing
Former NSA director Michael Hayden lists three effects of the Snowden documents: "...the undeniable operational effect of informing adversaries of American intelligence's...
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