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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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Own a Pair of Clipper Chips
The AT&T TSD was an early 1990s telephone encryption device. It was digital. Voice quality was okay. And it was the device that contained the infamous Clipper Chip...
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$7 Million Social Media Privacy Mistake
Forbes estimates that football player Laremy Tunsil lost $7 million in salary because of an ill-advised personal video made public....
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Credential Stealing as an Attack Vector
Traditional computer security concerns itself with vulnerabilities. We employ antivirus software to detect malware that exploits vulnerabilities. We have automatic...
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Fake Security Conferences
Turns out there are two different conferences with the title International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS 2016), one real and one fake. Richard Clayton has...
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Vulnerabilities in Samsung's SmartThings
Interesting research: Earlence Fernandes, Jaeyeon Jung, and Atul Prakash, "Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications": Abstract: Recently, several competing...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Global Squid Shortage
There's a squid shortage along the Pacific coast of the Americas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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I'm Writing a Book on Security
I'm writing a book on security in the highly connected Internet-of-Things World. Tentative title: Click Here to Kill Everything Peril and Promise in a Hyper-connected...
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Documenting the Chilling Effects of NSA Surveillance
In Data and Golliath, I talk about the self-censorship that comes along with broad surveillance. This interesting research documents this phenomenon in Wikipedia...
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Amazon Unlimited Fraud
Amazon Unlimited is a all-you-can-read service. You pay one price and can read anything that's in the program. Amazon pays authors out of a fixed pool, on the basis...
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Two Good Readings on the Encryption "Going Dark" Debate
Testimonies of Matt Blaze and Danny Weitzner, both on April 19th before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And the hearing....
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People Trust Robots, Even When They Don't Inspire Trust
Interesting research: In the study, sponsored in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the researchers recruited a group of 42 volunteers...
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Graffiti by Drone
Drones can graffiti walls that no person can reach. (Note that wired.com blocks ad blockers. My trick is to copy the page and then paste it into my text editor.)...
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BlackBerry's Global Encryption Key
Last week there was a big news story about the Blackberry encryption. The news was that all BlackBerry devices share a global encryption key, and that the Canadian...
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Friday Squid Blogging: My Little Cephalopod
I assume this is more amusing to people who know about My Little Pony. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Encryption Backdoor Cartoons
Dilbert has a series: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. SMBC. And three more that make it clear this is a security vs. surveillance debate. Also this....
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Cheating in Bicycle Races with Tiny Hidden Motors
If doping weren't enough, cyclists are cheating in races by hiding tiny motors in their bicycles. There are many detection techniques: For its report, Stade 2 positioned...
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How Hacking Team Got Hacked
The hacker who hacked Hacking Team posted a lengthy description of how he broke into the company and stole everything. Two articles. ETA: This post originally had...
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Helen Nissenbaum on Regulating Data Collection and Use
NYU Helen Nissenbaum gave an excellent lecture at Brown University last month, where she rebutted those who think that we should not regulate data collection, only...
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