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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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Judge Demands that Apple Backdoor an iPhone
A judge has ordered that Apple bypass iPhone security in order for the FBI to attempt a brute-force password attack on an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino...
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Enabling Trust by Consensus
Trust is a complex social phenomenon, captured very poorly by the binary nature of Internet trust systems. This paper proposes a social consensus system of trust...
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Using Eagles to Intercept Drones
Both Dutch and UK police are training eagles to attack drones....
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Fear and Anxiety
More psychological research on our reaction to terrorism and mass violence: The researchers collected posts on Twitter made in response to the 2012 shooting attack...
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Survey of the Dark Web
Interesting paper on the dark web: Daniel Moore & Thomas Rid, "Cryptopolitik and the Darknet," Survival, 2016. (Technical annex here -- requires the Tor browser...
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Friday Squid Blogging : Pajama Squid
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a pajama squid. 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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Fitbit Data Reveals Pregnancy
A man learned his wife was pregnant from her Fitbit data. The details of the story are weird. The man posted the data to Reddit and asked for analysis help. But...
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Determining Physical Location on the Internet
Interesting research: "CPV: Delay-based Location Verification for the Internet": Abstract: The number of location-aware services over the Internet continues growing...
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Worldwide Encryption Products Survey
Today I released my worldwide survey of encryption products. The findings of this survey identified 619 entities that sell encryption products. Of those 412, or...
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Make Privacy a 2016 Election Issue
EPIC has just launched "Data Protection 2016" to try to make privacy an issue in this year's elections. You can buy swag....
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AT&T Does Not Care about Your Privacy
AT&T's CEO believes that the company should not offer robust security to its customers: But tech company leaders aren't all joining the fight against the deliberate...
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10,000-Year-Old Warfare
Evidence of primitive warfare from Kenya's Rift Valley....
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The 2016 National Threat Assessment
It's National Threat Assessment Day. Published annually by the Director of National Intelligence, the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community"...
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Large-Scale FBI Hacking
As part of a child pornography investigation, the FBI hacked into over 1,300 computers. But after Playpen was seized, it wasn't immediately closed down, unlike...
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Data and Goliath Published in Paperback
Today, Data and Goliath is being published in paperback. Everyone tells me that the paperback version sells better than the hardcover, even though it's a year later...
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Exploiting Google Maps for Fraud
The New York Times has a long article on fraudulent locksmiths. The scam is a basic one: quote a low price on the phone, but charge much more once you show up and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Knitting Pattern
Surprisingly realistic for a knitted stuffed animal....
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NSA Reorganizing
The NSA is undergoing a major reorganization, combining its attack and defense sides into a single organization: In place of the Signals Intelligence and Information...
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Tracking Anonymous Web Users
This research shows how to track e-commerce users better across multiple sessions, even when they do not provide unique identifiers such as user IDs or cookies....
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