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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Capabilities of the Barbie Typewriter
They're not much, but they do exist....
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An SQL Injection Attack Is a Legal Company Name in the UK
Someone just registered their company name as ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD. Reddit thread. Obligatory xkcd comic....
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Are We Becoming More Moral Faster Than We're Becoming More Dangerous?
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker convincingly makes the point that by pretty much every measure you can think of, violence has declined on our...
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Class Breaks
There's a concept from computer security known as a class break. It's a particular security vulnerability that breaks not just one system, but an entire class of...
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Photocopier Security
A modern photocopier is basically a computer with a scanner and printer attached. This computer has a hard drive, and scans of images are regularly stored on that...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Will Fish and Chips Become Squid and Chips?
BBC.com reports that squid are proliferating around the North Sea, and speculates that they will become an increasingly common British dinner. As usual, you can...
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Effects of the 2011 DigiNotar Attack
Nice article on the 2011 DigiNotar attack and how it changed security practices in the CA industry....
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How Signal Is Evading Censorship
Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's...
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Security Risks of TSA PreCheck
Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA's PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squidmas Cards
Merry Squidmas. 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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Russian Military Using Smart Phones to Track Troop Movements
Crowdstrike has an interesting blog post about how the Russian military is tracking Ukranian field artillery units by compromising soldiers' smart phones and tracking...
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NIST is Continuing to Work on Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards
NIST is accepting proposals for public-key algorithms immune to quantum computing techniques. Details here. Deadline is the end of November 2017. I applaud NIST...
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The Future of Faking Audio and Video
This Verge article isn't great, but we are certainly moving into a future where audio and video will be easy to fake, and easier to fake undetectably. This is going...
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The Pro-PGP Position
A few days ago I blogged an excellent essay by Filippo Valsorda on why he's giving up on PGP. Neal Walkfield wrote a good rebuttal. I am on Valsorda's side. I don't...
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Encryption Working Group Annual Report from the US House of Representatives
The Encryption Working Group of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released its annual report. Observation #1: Any measure...
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Google Releases Crypto Test Suite
Google has released Project Wycheproof a test suite designed to test cryptographic libraries against a series of known attacks. From a blog post: In cryptography...
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Smartphone Spying as Art
A film student put spyware on a smartphone and then allowed it to be stolen. He made a movie of the results....
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UN Considering Killer Robot Ban
This would be a good idea, although I can't imagine countries like the US, China, and Russia going along with it -- at least not right now....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Woman Throws Squid at Her Boyfriend
This is what passes for news these days. 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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