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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
The Quantified Toilet Hoax
Good essay on the Quantified Toilet hoax, and the difference between public surveillance and private self-surveillance....
From Schneier on Security
Details of Apple's Fingerprint Recognition
This is interesting: Touch ID takes a 88x88 500ppi scan of your finger and temporarily sends that data to a secure cache located near the RAM, after the data is...
From Schneier on Security
A New Pencil-and-Paper Encryption Algorithm
Handycipher is a new pencil-and-paper symmetric encryption algorithm. I'd bet a gazillion dollars that it's not secure, although I haven't done the cryptanalysis...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
It's called "Tentacles." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Is Google Too Big to Trust?
Interesting essay about how Google's lack of transparency is hurting their trust: The reality is that Google's business is and has always been about mining as much...
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Conversnitch
Surveillance is getting cheaper and easier: Two artists have revealed Conversnitch, a device they built for less than $100 that resembles a lightbulb or lamp and...
From Schneier on Security
The Security of Various Programming Languages
Interesting research on the security of code written in different programming languages. We don't know whether the security is a result of inherent properties of...
From Schneier on Security
Dan Geer on Heartbleed and Software Monocultures
Good essay: To repeat, Heartbleed is a common mode failure. We would not know about it were it not open source (Good). That it is open source has been shown to...
From Schneier on Security
Info on Russian Bulk Surveillance
Good information: Russian law gives Russia’s security service, the FSB, the authority to use SORM (“System for Operative Investigative Activities”) to collect,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Jigging
Good news from Malaysia: The Terengganu International Squid Jigging Festival (TISJF) will be continued and become an annual event as one of the state's main tourism...
From Schneier on Security
Metaphors of Surveillance
There's a new study looking at the metaphors we use to describe surveillance. Over 62 days between December and February, we combed through 133 articles by 105...
From Schneier on Security
Overreacting to Risk
This is a crazy overreaction: A 19-year-old man was caught on camera urinating in a reservoir that holds Portland's drinking water Wednesday, according to city...
From Schneier on Security
Tails
Nice article on the Tails stateless operating system. I use it. Initially I would boot my regular computer with Tails on a USB stick, but I went out and bought...
From Schneier on Security
Book Title
I previously posted that I am writing a book on security and power. Here are some title suggestions: Permanent Record: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Speaking Schedule: April–May
Here's my upcoming speaking schedule for April and May: Stanford Law School on April 15. Brown University in Providence, RI -- two times -- on April 24. The Global...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Talks and Interviews
Here are three articles about me from the last month. Also these three A/V links....
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Auditing TrueCrypt
Recently, Matthew Green has been leading an independent project to audit TrueCrypt. Phase I, a source code audit by iSEC Partners, is complete. Next up is Phase...
From Schneier on Security
GoGo Wireless Adds Surveillance Capabilities for Government
The important piece of this story is not that GoGo complies with the law, but that it goes above and beyond what is required by law. It has voluntarily decided...
From Schneier on Security