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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Which Squid Can I Eat?
Interesting article listing the squid species that can still be ethically eaten. The problem, of course, is that on a restaurant menu it's just labeled "squid."...
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President Obama Talks About AI Risk, Cybersecurity, and More
Interesting interview: Obama: Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls. Increasingly, I find myself...
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Bypassing Intel's ASLR
Researchers discover a clever attack that bypasses the address space layout randomization (ALSR) on Intel's CPUs. Here's the paper. It discusses several possible...
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Security Lessons from a Power Saw
Lance Spitzner looks at the safety features of a power saw and tries to apply them to Internet security: By the way, here are some of the key safety features that...
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Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail
Former NSA attorneys John DeLong and Susan Hennessay have written a fascinating article describing a particular incident of oversight failure inside the NSA. Technically...
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Virtual Kidnapping
This is a harrowing story of a scam artist that convinced a mother that her daughter had been kidnapped. More stories are here. It's unclear if these virtual kidnappers...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Barramundi with Squid Ink Risotto
Squid ink risotto is a good accompaniment for any mild fish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration
On today's Internet, too much power is concentrated in too few hands. In the early days of the Internet, individuals were empowered. Now governments and corporations...
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Free Online Cybersecurity Economics Course
TU Delft is running a free online class in cybersecurity economics....
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The Psychological Impact of Doing Classified Intelligence Work
Richard Thieme gave a talk on the psychological impact of doing classified intelligence work. Summary here...
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Indiana's Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure
You can edit anyone's information you want: The question, boiled down, was haunting: Want to see how easy it would be to get into someone's voter registration and...
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Murder Is a Relatively Recent Evolutionary Strategy
Interesting research in Nature. The article is behind a paywall, but here are five summaries of the research....
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Security Economics of the Internet of Things
Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat. He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Are Colorblind
All cephalopods are colorblind. 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 Contractor Arrested for Stealing Classified Information
The NSA has another contractor who stole classified documents. It's a weird story: "But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether...
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Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA
News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don't believe those carefully worded statements about...
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Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures
This paper wins "best abstract" award: "Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures," by Shalev Ben David and Or Sattath: Abstract: The fisherman caught a quantum fish...
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