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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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Risks of Not Understanding a One-Way Function
New York City officials anonymized license plate data by hashing the individual plate numbers with MD5. (I know, they shouldn't have used MD5, but ignore that for...
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Could Keith Alexander's Advice Possibly Be Worth $600K a Month?
Ex-NSA director Keith Alexander has his own consulting company: IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. His advice does not come cheap: Alexander offered to provide advice to...
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Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
The second Quadrennial Homeland Security Review has been published by the Department of Homeland Security. At 100+ pages, I'm not going to be reading it, but I...
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Defending Against Algorithm Substitution Attacks
Interesting paper: M. Bellare, K. Paterson, and P. Rogaway, "Security of Symmetric Encryption against Mass Surveillance." Abstract: Motivated by revelations concerning...
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Building Retro Reflectors
A group of researchers have reverse-engineered the NSA's retro reflectors, and has recreated them using software-defined radio (SDR): An SDR Ossmann designed and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Ruth Reichl Cooks Squid
Quick and easy recipe. 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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Co3 Systems Is Hiring
At the beginning of the year, I announced that I'd joined Co3 Systems as its CTO. Co3 Systems makes coordination software -- what I hear called workflow management...
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More Details on NSA Tapping the Internet Backbone
Two new stories: one from Der Spiegel in Germany (also reported in the Intercept) and the other from Dagbladet in Denmark (again, also reported in the Intercept)...
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Paying People to Infect their Computers
Research paper: "It’s All About The Benjamins: An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice, by Nicolas Christin, Serge Egelman, Timothy...
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The Democratization of Surveillance
MarketWatch has a list of five apps for spying on your spouse....
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Story of a $10 Million Remote Scam
This is a bizarre story of an almost-happened $10 million scam. It reads like an obviously phony Nigerian 419 scam, but it actually fooled what seem to be smart...
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Use of Social Media by ISIS
Here are two articles about how effectively the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- the militant group that has just taken over half of Iraq -- is using social...
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The State of Cyberinsurance
Good essay on the current state of cyberinsurance. So where does that leave the growing cyber insurance industry as it tries to figure out what losses it should...
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Falsifying Evidence on a Smart Phone
Here's a way to plant false evidence -- call records, locations, etc -- on your smart phone. I have no idea how good this will be. Presumably it will be an arms...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Canadian Squid
This is not good news. 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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"Erotica Written By Someone With An Appropriate Sense of Privacy"
Funny....
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Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Seventh Mostly Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous...
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