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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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Another Scandal Resulting from E-mails Gone Public
A lot of Pennsylvania government officials are being hurt as a result of e-mails being made public. This is all the result of a political pressure to release the...
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PayPal Authentication Still Substandard
Brian Krebs has the story. Bottom line: PayPal has no excuse for this kind of stuff. I hope the public shaming incents them to offer better authentication for its...
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DMCA and the Internet of Things
In theory, the Internet of Things -- the connected network of tiny computers inside home appliances, household objects, even clothing -- promises to make your life...
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NSA/GCHQ Exploits Against Juniper Networking Equipment
The Intercept just published a 2011 GCHQ document outlining their exploit capabilities against Juniper networking equipment, including routers and NetScreen firewalls...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Christmas
Squid sighting in this Christmas cartoon. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. And...
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Burglary Footage Turned into Commercial
Earlier this month, a Las Vegas taco shop was robbed in the middle of the night. The restaurant took the surveillance-video footage and turned it into a combination...
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Police Dog Sniffs for Hard Drives
This weird story describes a "porn dog" that is trained to find hidden hard drives. It's used in child porn investigations. I suppose it's reasonable that computer...
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Using Law Against Technology
On Thursday, a Brazilian judge ordered the text messaging service WhatsApp shut down for 48 hours. It was a monumental action. WhatsApp is the most popular app...
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More Writings on the Second Crypto Wars
Two things to read: "Wanting It Bad Enough Won't Make It Work: Why Adding Backdoors and Weakening Encryption Threatens the Internet," by Meredith Whittaker and...
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"The Medieval Origins of Mass Surveillance"
This interesting article by medieval historian Amanda Power traces our culture's relationship with the concept of mass surveillance from the medieval characterization...
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Back Door in Juniper Firewalls
Juniper has warned about a malicious back door in their firewalls that automatically decrypts VPN traffic. It's been there for years. Hopefully details are forthcoming...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Penguins Fight over Squid
Watch this video of gentoo penguins fighting over a large squid. This underwater brawl was captured on a video camera taped to the back of the second penguin, revealing...
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GCHQ Holiday Puzzle
If you like puzzles, GCHQ has one for you. Just don't let it distract you from fighting the UK legislation giving the GCHQ new surveillance powers....
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25th Anniversary of the Landmark Unix Security Book
Gene Spafford writes about the history of Practical Unix Security....
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Catalog of Police Surveillance Equipment
The Intercept has "a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies."...
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User Errors Often Compromise Encryption
This should come as no surprise: users often compromise their own security by making mistakes setting up and using their encryption apps. Paper: "On the Security...
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DOS Attack Against Los Angeles Schools
Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles closed all of its schools -- over 1,000 schools -- because of a bomb threat. It was a hoax. LA officials defended the move, with...
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Attack Against DNS Root Servers
Has anyone been following the attack against the DNS root servers two weeks ago? Details. I can't precisely explain why, but this feels like someone testing an...
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