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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
How People Learn about Computer Security
Interesting research: "Identifying patterns in informal sources of security information," by Emilee Rader and Rick Wash, Journal of Cybersecurity, 1 Dec 2015. Abstract...
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Terrifying Technologies
I've written about the difference between risk perception and risk reality. I thought about that when reading this list of Americans' top technology fears: Cyberterrorism...
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How Israel Regulates Encryption
Interesting essay about how Israel regulates encryption: ...the Israeli encryption control mechanisms operate without directly legislating any form of encryption...
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Forced Authorization Attacks Against Chip-and-Pin Credit Card Terminals
Clever: The way forced authorisation fraud works is that the retailer sets up the terminal for a transaction by inserting the customer's card and entering the amount...
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Friday Squid Blogging: North Korean Squid Fisherman Found Dead in Boats
I don't know if you've been following the story of the boats full of corpses that have been found in Japanese waters: Over the past two months, at least 12 wooden...
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BlackBerry Leaves Pakistan Rather Than Provide a Government Backdoor
BlackBerry has chosen to shut down operations in Pakistan rather than provide the government with backdoor access to encrypted communications. Pakistan is a relatively...
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The Moral Dimension of Cryptography
Phil Rogaway has written an excellent paper titled "The Moral Character of Cryptography Work." In it, he exhorts cryptographers to consider the morality of their...
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Worldwide Cryptographic Products Survey: Edits and Additions Wanted
Back in September, I announced my intention to survey the world market of cryptographic products. The goal is to compile a list of both free and commercial encryption...
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Security vs. Business Flexibility
This article demonstrates that security is less important than functionality. When asked about their preference if they needed to choose between IT security and...
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Tracking Someone Using LifeLock
Someone opened a LifeLock account in his ex-wife's name, and used the service to track her bank accounts, credit cards, and other financial activities. The article...
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A History of Privacy
This New Yorker article traces the history of privacy from the mid 1800s to today: As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy...
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Cryptanalysis of Algebraic Eraser
Algebraic Eraser is a public-key key-agreement protocol that's patented and being pushed by a company for the Internet of Things, primarily because it is efficient...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Necklace
She's calling it an octopus, but it's a 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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Data and Goliath in German
The German edition of Data and Goliath has been published....
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Defending against Actual IT Threats
Roger Grimes has written an interesting paper: "Implementing a Data-Driven Computer Security Defense." His thesis is that most organizations don't match their defenses...
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NSA Lectures on Communications Security from 1973
Newly declassified: "A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II)," the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA), 1973. (The document...
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NSA Collected Americans' E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans' E-mails
In 2011, the Bush administration authorized -- almost certainly illegally -- the NSA to conduct bulk electronic surveillance on Americans: phone calls, e-mails,...
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Policy Repercussions of the Paris Terrorist Attacks
In 2013, in the early days of the Snowden leaks, Harvard Law School professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith reflected on the increase in...
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Voter Surveillance
There hasn't been that much written about surveillance and big data being used to manipulate voters. In Data and Goliath, I wrote: Unique harms can arise from the...
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