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There has been an increase in squid poaching by North Korea out of Japanese territorial waters. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 5, 2014 at 05:47 PM
In the Internet age, we have no choice but to entrust our data with private companies: e-mail providers, service providers, retailers, and so on. We realize that...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 5, 2014 at 07:45 AM
The Denver police are using olfactometers to measure the concentration of cannabis in the air. I haven't found any technical information about these devices, their...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 4, 2014 at 04:43 PM
This talk (and paper) describe a lattice-based public-key algorithm called Soliloquy developed by GCHQ, and a quantum-computer attack on it. News article....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Interesting essay on the future of speech recognition, microphone miniaturization, and the future ubiquity of auditory surveillance....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 2, 2014 at 04:53 PM
This is a really good analysis of how the NSA/GCHQ spying programs actually work. It's nice that we finally have enough documents public that we can start putting...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 1, 2014 at 07:41 AM
Squid Bikes is a California brand. Article from Velo News. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 28, 2014 at 05:53 PM
Interesting paper: "Security Collapse of the HTTPS Market." From the conclusion: Recent breaches at CAs have exposed several systemic vulnerabilities and market...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 28, 2014 at 07:54 AM
This is an interesting paper -- the full version is behind a paywall -- about how we as humans can motivate people to cooperate with future generations. Abstract...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 27, 2014 at 09:32 AM
A new story based on the Snowden documents and published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung shows how the GCHQ worked with Cable & Wireless -- acquired...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 26, 2014 at 02:29 PM
This is a creepy story. The FBI wanted access to a hotel guest's room without a warrant. So agents broke his Internet connection, and then posed as Internet technicians...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 26, 2014 at 07:50 AM
Regin is another military-grade surveillance malware (tech details from Symantec and Kaspersky). It seems to have been in operation between 2008 and 2011. The Intercept...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 25, 2014 at 07:57 AM
Nice article on some of the security assumptions we rely on in cryptographic algorithms....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 24, 2014 at 03:45 PM
Jim Sanborn has given he world another clue to the fourth cyphertext in his Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters. Older posts on Kryptos....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 24, 2014 at 07:54 AM
Tales of cephalopod behavior, including octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses. Cephalopod Cognition, published by Cambridge University Press, is currently...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 21, 2014 at 05:52 PM
Reuters is reporting that in 2009, several senior NSA officials objected to the NSA call-records collection program. The now-retired NSA official, a longtime code...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 20, 2014 at 03:46 PM
Citadel is the first piece of malware I know of that specifically steals master passwords from password managers. Note that my own Password Safe is a target....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 20, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Announcing Let's Encrypt, a new free certificate authority. This is a joint project of EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and the University of Michigan. This is an absolutely...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 18, 2014 at 02:01 PM
Whatapp is now offering end-to-end message encryption: Whatsapp will integrate the open-source software Textsecure, created by privacy-focused non-profit Open Whisper...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 18, 2014 at 02:01 PM