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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
Security of Password Managers
At USENIX Security this year there were two papers studying the security of password managers: David Silver, Suman Jana, and Dan Boneh, "Password Managers: Attacks...
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JackPair Encrypted Phone Add-On
JackPair is a clever device encrypts your voice between your headset and the audio jack. The crypto looks competent, and the design looks well-thought-out. I'd...
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Pencil-and-Paper Codes Used by Central American Criminal Gangs
No mention of how good the codes are. My guess is not very....
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Squid Skin Inspires Eye-Like Photodetector
Squid are color-blind, but may detect color directly through their skin. A researcher is working on a system to detect colored light the way squid do....
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Cell Phone Kill Switches Mandatory in California
California passed a kill-switch law, meaning that all cell phones sold in California must have the capability to be remotely turned off. It was sold as an antitheft...
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ISIS Threatens US with Terrorism
They're openly mocking our profiling. But in several telephone conversations with a Reuters reporter over the past few months, Islamic State fighters had indicated...
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Hacking Traffic Lights
New paper: "Green Lights Forever: Analyzing the Security of Traffic Infrastructure," Branden Ghena, William Beyer, Allen Hillaker, Jonathan Pevarnek, and J. Alex...
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Security Flaws in Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners
Security researchers have finally gotten their hands on a Rapiscan backscatter full-body scanner. The results aren't very good. Website with paper and images. News...
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Security by Obscurity at Healthcare.gov Site
The White House is refusing to release details about the security of healthcare.gov because it might help hackers. What this really means is that the security details...
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Eavesdropping Using Smart Phone Gyroscopes
The gyroscopes are sensitive enough to pick up acoustic vibrations. It's crude, but it works. Paper. Wired article. Hacker News thread....
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The Problems with PGP
Matthew Green has a good post on what's wrong with PGP and what should be done about it....
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People Are Not Very Good at Matching Photographs to People
We have an error rate of about 15%: Professor Mike Burton, Sixth Century Chair in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen said: "Psychologists identified around...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Boats Illuminate Bangkok from Space
Really: To attract the phytoplankton, fishermen suspend green lights from their boats to illuminate the sea. When the squid chase after their dinner, they're drawn...
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Chapter 137 of My Surreal Life
Someone wrote Sherlock-Schneier fan fiction. Not slash, thank heavens. (And no, that's not an invitation.)...
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Disguising Exfiltrated Data
There's an interesting article on a data exfiltration technique. What was unique about the attackers was how they disguised traffic between the malware and command...
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The Security of al Qaeda Encryption Software
The web intelligence firm Recorded Future has posted two stories about how al Qaeda is using new encryption software in response to the Snowden disclosures. NPR...
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US Air Force is Focusing on Cyber Deception
The US Air Force is focusing on cyber deception next year: Background: Deception is a deliberate act to conceal activity on our networks, create uncertainty and...
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