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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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Visiting a Website against the Owner's Wishes Is Now a Federal Crime
While we're on the subject of terrible 9th Circuit Court rulings: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the...
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Password Sharing Is Now a Crime
In a truly terrible ruling, the US 9th Circuit Court ruled that using someone else's password with their permission but without the permission of the site owner...
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Google's Post-Quantum Cryptography
News has been bubbling about an announcement by Google that it's starting to experiment with public-key cryptography that's resistant to cryptanalysis by a quantum...
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Report on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process
I have written before on the vulnerabilities equities process (VEP): the system by which the US government decides whether to disclose and fix a computer vulnerability...
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Anonymization and the Law
Interesting paper: "Anonymization and Risk," by Ira S. Rubinstein and Woodrow Hartzog: Abstract: Perfect anonymization of data sets has failed. But the process...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How Squids See Color Despite Black-and-White Vision
It's chromatic aberration. 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'm on an "Adam Ruins Everything" Podcast
Adam Conover interviewed me on his podcast. If you remember, I was featured on his "Adam Ruins Everything" TV episode on security....
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Researchers Discover Tor Nodes Designed to Spy on Hidden Services
Two researchers have discovered over 100 Tor nodes that are spying on hidden services. Cory Doctorow explains: These nodes -- ordinary nodes, not exit nodes --...
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Hijacking Someone's Facebook Account with a Fake Passport Copy
BBC has the story. The confusion is that a scan of a passport is much easier to forge than an actual passport. This is a truly hard problem: how do you give people...
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The Difficulty of Routing around Internet Surveillance States
Interesting research: "Characterizing and Avoiding Routing Detours Through Surveillance States," by Anne Edmundson, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster, and Jennifer Rexford...
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Good Article on Airport Security
The New York Times wrote a good piece comparing airport security around the world, and pointing out that moving the security perimeter doesn't make any difference...
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Intellectual Property as National Security
Interesting research: Debora Halbert, "Intellectual property theft and national security: Agendas and assumptions": Abstract: About a decade ago, intellectual property...
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"Dogs Raise Fireworks Threat Level to 'Gray'"
Funny: The Department of Canine Security urges dogs to remain on high alert and employ the tactic of See Something, Say Something. Remember to bark upon spotting...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Ink Cocktails
Here's a Corpse Reviver #2 variant with squid ink. 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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Interview with an NSA Hacker
Peter Maas interviewed the former NSA official who wrote the infamous "I Hunt Sysadmins" memo. It's interesting, but I wanted to hear less of Peter Maas -- I already...
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Security Analysis of TSA PreCheck
Interesting research: Mark G. Stewart and John Mueller, "Risk-based passenger screening: risk and economic assessment of TSA PreCheck increased security at reduced...
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Facebook Using Physical Location to Suggest Friends
This could go badly: "People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We show you people based on mutual friends...
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