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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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NSA German Intercepts
On Friday, WikiLeaks published three summaries of NSA intercepts of German government communications. To me, the most interesting thing is not the intercept analyses...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in the Gulf of Thailand
Long article about a very lucrative squid-fishing industry that involves bribing the Cambodian Navy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Rabbit Beating Up Snake
It's the Internet, which means there must be cute animal videos on this blog. But this one is different. Watch a mother rabbit beat up a snake to protect her children...
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Clever System of Secure Distributed Computation
This is really clever: Enigma's technique -- what cryptographers call "secure multiparty computation" -- works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin's decentralized...
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Details of the NSA's XKEYSCORE
The Intercept has published a highly detailed two-part article on how the NSA's XKEYSCORE works, including a huge number of related documents from the Snowden archive...
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Office of Personnel Management Data Hack
I don't have much to say about the recent hack of the US Office of Personnel Management, which has been attributed to China (and seems to be getting worse all the...
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Twitter Followers: Please Use the Correct Feed
The official Twitter feed for my blog is @schneierblog. The account @Bruce_Schneier also mirrors my blog, but it is not mine. I have nothing to do with it, and...
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Tracking the Psychological Effects of the 9/11 Attacks
Interesting research from 2012: "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns, Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Representative...
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TEMPEST Attack
There's a new paper on a low-cost TEMPEST attack against PC cryptography: We demonstrate the extraction of secret decryption keys from laptop computers, by nonintrusively...
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Migrating from SHA-1 to SHA-2
Here's a comprehensive document on migrating from SHA-1 to SHA-2 in Active Directory certificates....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Classic Gary Larson Squid Cartoon
I have always liked this one. 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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Other GCHQ News from Snowden
There are two other Snowden stories this week about GCHQ: one about its hacking practices, and the other about its propaganda and psychology research. The second...
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NSA and GCHQ Attacked Antivirus Companies
On Monday, the Intercept published a new story from the Snowden documents: The spy agencies have reverse engineered software products, sometimes under questionable...
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Yet Another Leaker -- with the NSA's French Intercepts
Wikileaks has published some NSA SIGINT documents describing intercepted French government communications. This seems not be from the Snowden documents. It could...
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Baseball Hacking: Cardinals vs. Astros
I think this is the first case of one professional sports team hacking another. No idea if it was an official operation, or a couple of employees doing it on their...
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What is the DoD's Position on Backdoors in Security Systems?
In May, Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave an address at the Joint Service Academies Cyber Security Summit at West...
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Hayden Mocks NSA Reforms
Former NSA Director Michael recently mocked the NSA reforms in the recently passed USA Freedom Act: If somebody would come up to me and say, "Look, Hayden, here's...
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Why We Encrypt
Encryption protects our data. It protects our data when it's sitting on our computers and in data centers, and it protects it when it's being transmitted around...
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History of the First Crypto War
As we're all gearing up to fight the Second Crypto War over governments' demands to be able to back-door any cryptographic system, it pays for us to remember the...
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