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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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The Democratization of Cyberattack
The thing about infrastructure is that everyone uses it. If it's secure, it's secure for everyone. And if it's insecure, it's insecure for everyone. This forces...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communicate by Flashing Each Other
Scientists are attaching cameras to Humboldt squid to watch them communicate with each other. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Data and Goliath Book Tour
Over the next two weeks, I am speaking about my new book -- Data and Goliath, if you've missed it -- in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Seattle, San Francisco...
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Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not from Them
In December, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was interviewed at the CATO Institute Surveillance Conference. One of the things he said, after talking about...
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Snowden-Greenwald-Poitras AMA
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Edward Snowden did an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. Point out anything interesting in the comments. And note that Snowden mentioned...
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"Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems"
New paper: "Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems," by Bruce Schneier, Matthew Fredrikson, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Thomas Ristenpart. Abstract: Revelations...
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On Monday, I asked Adm. Rogers a question. EDITED TO ADD: The question....
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AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them
AT&T is charging a premium for gigabit Internet service without surveillance: The tracking and ad targeting associated with the gigabit service cannot be avoided...
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Cell Phones Leak Location Information through Power Usage
New research on tracking the location of smart phone users by monitoring power consumption: PowerSpy takes advantage of the fact that a phone's cellular transmissions...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Recode Their Genetic Makeup
This is freaky: A new study showcases the first example of an animal editing its own genetic makeup on-the-fly to modify most of its proteins, enabling adjustments...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Lenovo Computers
It's not just national intelligence agencies that break your https security through man-in-the-middle attacks. Corporations do it, too. For the past few months,...
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NSA/GCHQ Hacks SIM Card Database and Steals Billions of Keys
The Intercept has an extraordinary story: the NSA and/or GCHQ hacked into the Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto, stealing the encryption keys for billions of...
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Database of Ten Million Passwords
Earlier this month, Mark Burnett released a database of ten million usernames and passwords. He collected this data from already-public dumps from hackers who had...
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The Obsolescence of Submarines
Interesting article on the submarine arms race between remaining hidden and detection. It seems that it is much more expensive for a submarine to hide than it is...
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IRS Encourages Poor Cryptography
I'm not sure what to make of this, or even what it means. The IRS has a standard called IDES: International Data Exchange Service: "The International Data Exchange...
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The Equation Group's Sophisticated Hacking and Exploitation Tools
This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group -- almost certainly the NSA -- and its abilities to embed spyware deep...
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Co3 Systems Changes Its Name to Resilient Systems
Today my company, Co3 Systems, is changing its name to Resilient Systems. The new name better reflects who we are and what we do. Plus, the old name was kind of...
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Ford Proud that "Mustang" Is a Common Password
This is what happens when a PR person gets hold of information he really doesn't understand. "Mustang" is the 16th most common password on the Internet according...
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New Book: Data and Goliath
After a year of talking about it, my new book is finally published. This is the copy from the inside front flap: You are under surveillance right now. Your cell...
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