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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
NSA/GCHQ/CESC Infecting Innocent Computers Worldwide
There's a new story on the c't magazin website about a 5-Eyes program to infect computers around the world for use as launching pads for attacks. These are not...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Te Papa Museum Gets a Second Colossal Squid
That's two more than I have. They're hoping it's a male. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Reverse-Engineering NSA Malware
Interesting articles reverse-engineering DEITYBOUNCE and BULLDOZER....
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New Snowden Interview in Wired
There's a new article on Edward Snowden in Wired. It's written by longtime NSA watcher James Bamford, who interviewed Snowden is Moscow. There's lots of interesting...
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Security as Interface Guarantees
This is a smart and interesting blog post: I prefer to think of security as a class of interface guarantee. In particular, security guarantees are a kind of correctness...
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Automatic Scanning for Highly Stressed Individuals
This borders on ridiculous: Chinese scientists are developing a mini-camera to scan crowds for highly stressed individuals, offering law-enforcement officers a...
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Irrational Fear of Risks Against Our Children
There's a horrible story of a South Carolina mother arrested for letting her 9-year-old daughter play alone at a park while she was at work. The article linked...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Proteins and the Brain-Computer Interface
There's a protein in squid that might be useful in getting biological circuits to talk to computer circuits. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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Eavesdropping by Visual Vibrations
Researchers are able to recover sound through soundproof glass by recording the vibrations of a plastic bag. Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed...
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The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker
Ever since The Intercept published this story about the US government's Terrorist Screening Database, the press has been writing about a "second leaker": The Intercept...
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Over a Billion Passwords Stolen?
I've been doing way too many media interviews over this weird New York Times story that a Russian criminal gang has stolen over 1.2 billion passwords. As expected...
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SynoLocker Ransomware Demands Bitcoins
Network-attached storage devices made by Synology are being attacked, and their data encrypted, by ransomware that demands $350 in bitcoins (payable anonymously...
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Former NSA Director Patenting Computer Security Techniques
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander is patenting a variety of techniques to protect computer networks. We're supposed to believe that he developed these on his...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
A nebula that looks like a squid. 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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The NSA's Patents
Here are all the NSA's patents, in one searchable database. If you find something good, tell us all in the comments....
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The Fundamental Insecurity of USB
This is pretty impressive: Most of us learned long ago not to run executable files from sketchy USB sticks. But old-fashioned USB hygiene can't stop this newer...
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Debit Card Override Hack
Clever: Parrish allegedly visited Apple Stores and tried to buy products with four different debit cards, which were all closed by his respective financial institutions...
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