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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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Did Kaspersky Fake Malware?
Two former Kaspersky employees have accused the company of faking malware to harm rival antivirus products. They would falsely classify legitimate files as malicious...
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More on Mail Cover
I've previously written about mail cover -- the practice of recording the data on mail envelopes. Sai has been covering the issue in more detail, and recently received...
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Data and Goliath Confiscated from Chelsea Manning
One of the books confiscated from Chelsea Manning was a copy of Data and Goliath....
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Oracle CSO Rant Against Security Experts
Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson wrote a blog post ranting against security experts finding vulnerabilities in her company's products. The blog post has been taken...
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NSA's Partnership with AT&T
There's a new article, published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica, aboutNSA's longstanding relationship with AT&T. It's based on the Snowden documents...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid
I think it's a very pretty creature with some impressive adaptations. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Cryptography from the 13th Century
The British Museum wants help breaking a code on a 13th-century sword....
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Cosa Nostra Dead Drops
Good operational security is hard, and often uses manual technologies: Investigators described how Messina Denaro, 53, disdains telecommunications and relies on...
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Another Salvo in the Second Crypto War (of Words)
Prosecutors from New York, London, Paris, and Madrid wrote an op-ed in yesterday's New York Times in favor of backdoors in cell phone encryption. There are a number...
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Intimidating Military Personnel by Targeting Their Families
This FBI alert is interesting: (U//FOUO) In May 2015, the wife of a US military member was approached in front of her home by two Middle-Eastern males. The men...
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Incenting Drug Dealers to Snitch on Each Other
Local police are trying to convince drug dealers to turn each other in by pointing out that it reduces competition. It's a comical tactic with serious results:...
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Detecting Betrayal in Diplomacy Games
Interesting research detecting betrayal in the game of Diplomacy by analyzing interplayer messages. One harbinger was a shift in politeness. Players who were excessively...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Divers Find Squid Eggs
Divers discover a large mass of Ommastrephes bartramii eggs: Earlier this month, a team of divers swimming off the coast of Turkey discovered something unexpected...
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Meerkats that Look like Bruce Schneier
Yet another example of my surreal life. (No, I have no idea who did this.)...
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The Outing of ECHELON
Before Edward Snowden told us so much about NSA surveillance, before Mark Klein told us a little, even before 9/11, Duncan Campbell broke the story of ECHELON....
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Security for the Rest of Us
Good fictional account of an average computer user and how people understand and view security. Related: "Real World Use Cases for High-Risk Users."...
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Nicholas Weaver on iPhone Security
Excellent essay: Yes, an iPhone configured with a proper password has enough protection that, turned off, I'd be willing to hand mine over to the DGSE, NSA, or...
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Face Recognition by Thermal Imaging
New research can identify a person by reading their thermal signature in complete darkness and then matching it with ordinary photographs. Research paper: Abstract...
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