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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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How an Amazon Worker Stole iPads
A worker in Amazon's packaging department figured out how to deliver electronics to himself: Since he was employed with the packaging department, he had easy access...
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Remotely Hacking a Car While It's Driving
This is a big deal. Hackers can remotely hack the Uconnect system in cars just by knowing the car's IP address. They can disable the brakes, turn on the AC, blast...
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Organizational Doxing of Ashley Madison
The -- depending on who is doing the reporting -- cheating, affair, adultery, or infidelity site Ashley Madison has been hacked. The hackers are threatening to...
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Malcolm Gladwell on Competing Security Models
In this essay/review of a book on UK intelligence officer and Soviet spy Kim Philby, Malcolm Gladwell makes this interesting observation: Here we have two very...
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Google's Unguessable URLs
Google secures photos using public but unguessable URLs: So why is that public URL more secure than it looks? The short answer is that the URL is working as a password...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Giving Birth
I may have posted this short video before, but if I did, I can't find it. It's four years old, but still pretty to watch. As usual, you can also use this squid...
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Using Secure Chat
Micah Lee has a good tutorial on installing and using secure chat. To recap: We have installed Orbot and connected to the Tor network on Android, and we have installed...
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ProxyHam Canceled
The ProxyHam project (and associated Def Con talk) has been canceled under mysterious circumstances. No one seems to know anything, and conspiracy theories abound...
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Crypto-Gram Is Moving
If you subscribe to my monthly e-mail newsletter, Crypto-Gram, you need to read this. Sometime between now and the August issue, the Crypto-Gram mailing list will...
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Human and Technology Failures in Nuclear Facilities
This is interesting: We can learn a lot about the potential for safety failures at US nuclear plants from the July 29, 2012, incident in which three religious activists...
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NSA Antennas
Interesting article on the NSA's use of multi-beam antennas for surveillance. Certainly smart technology; it can eavesdrop on multiple targets per antenna. I'm...
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Friday Squid Blogging: My Little Cephalopod
A cute series of knitted plushies. 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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High-tech Cheating on Exams
India is cracking down on people who use technology to cheat on exams: Candidates have been told to wear light clothes with half-sleeves, and shirts that do not...
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Organizational Doxing
Recently, WikiLeaks began publishing over half a million previously secret cables and other documents from the Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia. It's a huge trove...
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The Risks of Mandating Back Doors in Encryption Products
Monday a group of cryptographers and security experts released a major paper outlining the risks of government-mandated back-doors in encryption products: Keys...
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Amazon Is Analyzing the Personal Relationships of Its Reviewers
This is an interesting story of a reviewer who had her reviewer deleted because Amazon believed she knew the author personally. Leaving completely aside the ethics...
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More on Hacking Team
Read this: Hacking Team asked its customers to shut down operations, but according to one of the leaked files, as part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it...
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More about the NSA's XKEYSCORE
I've been reading through the 48 classified documents about the NSA's XKEYSCORE system released by the Intercept last week. From the article: The NSA's XKEYSCORE...
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