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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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NSA and GCHQ Hacked Israeli Drone Feeds
The NSA and GCHQ have successfully hacked Israel's drones, according to the Snowden documents. The story is being reported by the Intercept and Der Spiegel. The...
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NSA's TAO Head on Internet Offense and Defense
Rob Joyce, the head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group -- basically the country's chief hacker -- spoke in public earlier this week. He talked...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Polynesian Squid Hook
From 1909, for squid fishing. 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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Integrity and Availability Threats
Cyberthreats are changing. We're worried about hackers crashing airplanes by hacking into computer networks. We're worried about hackers remotely disabling cars...
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Psychological Model of Selfishness
This is interesting: Game theory decision-making is based entirely on reason, but humans don't always behave rationally. David Rand, assistant professor of psychology...
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Horrible Story of Digital Harassment
This is just awful. Their troll -- or trolls, as the case may be -- have harassed Paul and Amy in nearly every way imaginable. Bomb threats have been made under...
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Shodan Lets Your Browse Insecure Webcams
There's a lot out there: The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back...
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Friday Squid Blogging: North Coast Squid
North Coast Squid is a local writing journal from Manzanita, Oregon. It's going to publish its fifth edition this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
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UK Government Promoting Backdoor-Enabled Voice Encryption Protocol
The UK government is pushing something called the MIKEY-SAKKE protocol to secure voice. Basically, it's an identity-based system that necessarily requires a trusted...
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Security Trade-offs in the Longbow vs. Crossbow Decision
Interesting research: Douglas W. Allen and Peter T. Leeson, "Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle," Journal of Law and...
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El Chapo's Opsec
I've already written about Sean Penn's opsec while communicating with El Chapo. Here's the technique of mirroring, explained: El chapo then switched to a complex...
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France Rejects Back Doors in Encryption Products
For the right reasons too: Axelle Lemaire, the Euro nation's digital affairs minister, shot down the amendment during the committee stage of the forthcoming omnibus...
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Reverse-Engineering a Zero-Day Exploit from the Hacking Team Data Dump
Last July, a still-anonymous hacker broke into the network belonging to the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team, and dumped an enormous amount of its proprietary...
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Counterfeit Theater Tickets in New York
Counterfeiters are makingtickets for the Broadway show "Hamilton." Counterfeiting is much easier when the person you're passing the fakes off to doesn't know what...
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Match Fixing in Tennis
The BBC and Buzzfeed are jointly reporting on match fixing in tennis. Their story is based partially on leaked documents and partly on data analysis. BuzzFeed News...
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Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives?
Jonathan Zittrain proposes a very interesting hypothetical: Suppose a laptop were found at the apartment of one of the perpetrators of last year's Paris attacks...
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Spamming Someone from PayPal
Troy Hunt has identified a new spam vector. PayPal allows someone to send someone else a $0 invoice. The spam is in the notes field. But it's a legitimate e-mail...
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