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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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Ugly Mail: Gmail Extension to Expose E-mail Tracking
Nice idea, but I would like it to work for other browsers and other e-mail programs....
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The Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest
It's April 1, and time for another Movie-Plot Threat Contest. This year, the theme is Crypto Wars II. Strong encryption is evil, because it prevents the police...
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Survey of Americans' Privacy Habits Post-Snowden
Pew Research has a new survey on Americans' privacy habits in a post-Snowden world. The 87% of those who had heard at least something about the programs were asked...
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Chinese CA Issuing Fraudulent Certificates
There's a Chinese CA that's issuing fraudulent Google certificates. Yet another example of why the CA model is so broken....
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Australia Outlaws Warrant Canaries
In the US, certain types of warrants can come with gag orders preventing the recipient from disclosing the existence of warrant to anyone else. A warrant canary...
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Brute-Forcing iPhone PINs
This is a clever attack, using a black box that attaches to the iPhone via USB: As you know, an iPhone keeps a count of how many wrong PINs have been entered, in...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Using Squid Proteins for Commercial Camouflage Products
More research. 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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Yet Another Computer Side Channel
Researchers have managed to get two computers to communicate using heat and thermal sensors. It's not really viable communication -- the bit rate is eight per hour...
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New Zealand's XKEYSCORE Use
The Intercept and the New Zealand Herald have reported that New Zealand spied on communications about the World Trade Organization director-general candidates....
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Capabilities of Canada's Communications Security Establishment
There's a new story about the hacking capabilities of Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE), based on the Snowden documents....
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Reforming the FISA Court
The Brennan Center has a long report on what's wrong with the FISA Court and how to fix it. At the time of its creation, many lawmakers saw constitutional problems...
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BIOS Hacking
We've learned a lot about the NSA's abilities to hack a computer's BIOS so that the hack survives reinstalling the OS. Now we have a research presentation about...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pen
Neat. 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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New Paper on Digital Intelligence
David Omand -- GCHQ director from 1996-1997, and the UK's security and intelligence coordinator from 2000-2005 -- has just published a new paper: "Understanding...
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Cisco Shipping Equipment to Fake Addresses to Foil NSA Interception
Last May, we learned that the NSA intercepts equipment being shipped around the world and installs eavesdropping implants. There were photos of NSA employees opening...
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More Data and Goliath News
Right now, the book is #6 on the New York Times best-seller list in hardcover nonfiction, and #13 in combined print and e-book nonfiction. This is the March 22...
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Understanding the Organizational Failures of Terrorist Organizations
New research: Max Abrahms and Philip B.K. Potter, "Explaining Terrorism: Leadership Deficits and Militant Group Tactics," International Organizations. Abstract:...
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How We Become Habituated to Security Warnings on Computers
New research: "How Polymorphic Warnings Reduce Habituation in the Brain - Insights from an fMRI Study." Abstract: Research on security warnings consistently points...
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