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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
Smart Billboards Recognize Cops
There are smart billboards in Russia that change what they display when cops are watching. Of course there are a gazillion ways this kind of thing will go wrong...
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TSA Not Detecting Weapons at Security Checkpoints
This isn't good: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports,...
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Fun NSA Surveillance Quizzes
Okay, maybe not so fun. Quiz 1: "Just How Kafkaesque is the Court that Oversees NSA Spying?" Quiz 2: "Can You Tell the Difference Between Bush and Obama on the...
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US Also Tried Stuxnet Against North Korea
According to a Reuters article, the US military tried to launch Stuxnet against North Korea in addition to Iran: According to one U.S. intelligence source, Stuxnet's...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Nutty Conspiracy Theory Involving Both the NSA and SQUID
It's almost as if they wrote it for me. These devices, which are known as super conducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDS for short), can be attached to NSA...
From Schneier on Security
UN Report on the Value of Encryption to Freedom World-Wide
United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner released a report on the value of encryption and anonymity to the world: Summary: In the present report, submitted...
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Ransomware as a Service
Tox is an outsourced ransomware platform that everyone can use....
From Schneier on Security
MOOC on Cybersecurity
The University of Adelaide is offering a new MOOC on "Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security." Here's a teaser video. I was interviewed for the class, and make a brief...
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Terrorist Risks by City, According to Actual Data
I don't know enough about the methodology to judge it, but it's interesting: In total, 64 cities are categorised as 'extreme risk' in Verisk Maplecroft's new Global...
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Race Condition Exploit in Starbucks Gift Cards
A researcher was able to steal money from Starbucks by exploiting a race condition in their gift-card value-transfer protocol. Basically, by initiating two identical...
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Stink Bombs for Riot Control
They're coming to the US: It's called Skunk, a type of "malodorant," or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting...
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Story of the ZooKeeper Poison-Packet Bug
Interesting story of a complex and deeply hidden bug -- with AES as a part of it....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Washes Up in New Zealand
The latest 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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USPS Tracking Queries to Its Package Tracking Website
A man was arrested for drug dealing based on the IP address he used while querying the USPS package tracking website....
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Why the Current Section 215 Reform Debate Doesn't Matter Much
The ACLU's Chris Soghoian explains (time 25:52-30:55) why the current debate over Section 215 of the Patriot Act is just a minor facet of a large and complex bulk...
From Schneier on Security
New Pew Research Report on Americans' Attitudes on Privacy, Security, and Surveillance
This is interesting: The surveys find that Americans feel privacy is important in their daily lives in a number of essential ways. Yet, they have a pervasive sense...
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The Logjam (and Another) Vulnerability against Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Logjam is a new attack against the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS. Basically: The Logjam attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade...
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Research on Patch Deployment
New research indicates that it's very hard to completely patch systems against vulnerabilities: It turns out that it may not be that easy to patch vulnerabilities...
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