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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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Phishing Has Gotten Very Good
This isn't phishing; it's not even spear phishing. It's laser-guided precision phishing: One of the leaked diplomatic cables referred to one attack via emailwrote...
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The Court of Public Opinion
Recently, Elon Musk and the New York Times took to Twitter and the Internet to argue the data -- and their grievances -- over a failed road test and car review....
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Brazen Physical Thefts
Three brazen robberies are in the news this week. The first was a theft at a small museum of gold nuggets worth $750,000: Police said the daring heist happened...
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Alan F. Westin Died
Obituary here. His 1967 book, Privacy and Freedom, almost single-handedly created modern privacy law.
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How Complex Systems Fail
Good summary list. It's not directly about security, but it's all fundamentally about security. Any real-world security system is inherently complex. I wrote...
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Security Lessons from the Battle of Hoth
Someone has analyzed the security mistakes in the Battle of Hoth, from the movie The Empire Strikes Back.
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House Hearing: How Well Is the TSA Doing?
I would have liked to participate in this hearing: Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency: "Assessing DHS 10 Years"...
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Me at the RSA Conference
I'll be speaking twice at the RSA Conference this year. I'm giving a solo talk Tuesday at 1:00, and participating in a debate about training Wednesday at noon....
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Another Essay about Liars and Outliers
The Montréal Review asked me to write an essay about my latest book. Not much that regular readers haven't seen before.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Land Squids
Funny. 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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I Was on Inventing the Future
I was a guest on Inventing the Future, for an episode on surveillance technology. The video is here.
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Hacking the Papal Election
As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, security people like me wonder about the process. How does it work, and just how hard would it be to hack...
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All Those Companies that Can't Afford Dedicated Security
This is interesting: In the security practice, we have our own version of no-man's land, and that's midsize companies. Wendy Nather refers to these folks as being...
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More on Chinese Cyberattacks
Wow, is this a crazy media frenzy. We should know better. These attacks happen all the time, and just because the media is reporting about them with greater frequency...
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Age Biases in Perceptions of Trust
Interesting research (full article is behind a paywall): Abstract: Older adults are disproportionately vulnerable to fraud, and federal agencies have speculated...
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Fixing Soccer Matches
How international soccer matches are fixed. Right now, Dan Tan's programmers are busy reverse-engineering the safeguards of online betting houses. About $3 billion...
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19th-Century Traffic Analysis
There's a nice example of traffic analysis in the book No Name, by Wilkie Collins (1862). The attacker, Captain Wragge, needs to know whether a letter has been...
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