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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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Gaming Google News
Turns out that it's surprisingly easy to game: It appears that news sites deemed legitimate by Google News are being modified by third parties. These sites are...
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Millennials and Secret Leaking
I hesitate to blog this, because it's an example of everything that's wrong with pop psychology. Malcolm Harris writes about millennials, and has a theory of why...
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Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism
This article argues that Britain's counterterrorism problem isn't lack of data, it's lack of analysis....
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Security Flaws in 4G VoLTE
Research paper: "Subscribers remote geolocation and tracking using 4G VoLTE enabled Android phone," by Patrick Ventuzelo, Olivier Le Moal, and Thomas Coudray. Abstract...
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Chelsea Manning Profiled in New York Times Magazine
Interesting reading....
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Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report
New US government report: "Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry." It's pretty scathing, but nothing in it will surprise regular readers...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Is Traumatic for the Female Dumpling Squid
The more they mate, the sooner they die. Academic paper (paywall). News article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls
This week brought new public evidence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. On Monday, the Intercept published a top-secret National Security Agency...
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Safety and Security and the Internet of Things
Ross Anderson blogged about his new paper on security and safety concerns about the Internet of Things. (See also this short video.) It's very much along the lines...
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Surveillance Intermediaries
Interesting law-journal article: "Surveillance Intermediaries," by Alan Z. Rozenshtein. Abstract:Apple's 2016 fight against a court order commanding it to help...
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Spear Phishing Attacks
Really interesting research: "Unpacking Spear Phishing Susceptibility," by Zinaida Benenson, Freya Gassmann, and Robert Landwirth. Abstract: We report the results...
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CIA's Pandemic Toolkit
WikiLeaks is still dumping CIA cyberweapons on the Internet. Its latest dump is something called "Pandemic": The Pandemic leak does not explain what the CIA's initial...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as Prey
There's lots of video of squid as undersea predators. This is one of the few instances of squid as prey (from a deep submersible in the Pacific): "We saw brittle...
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WannaCry and Vulnerabilities
There is plenty of blame to go around for the WannaCry ransomware that spread throughout the Internet earlier this month, disrupting work at hospitals, factories...
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Passwords at the Border
The password-manager 1Password has just implemented a travel mode that tries to protect users while crossing borders. It doesn't make much sense. To enable it,...
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Post-Quantum RSA
Interesting research on a version of RSA that is secure against a quantum computer: Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou, and Luke Valenta...
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Inmates Secretly Build and Network Computers while in Prison
This is kind of amazing: Inmates at a medium-security Ohio prison secretly assembled two functioning computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the...
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Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
In 2013, a mysterious group of hackers that calls itself the Shadow Brokers stole a few disks full of NSA secrets. Since last summer, they've been dumping these...
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