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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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Security Risks from Remote Controlled Smart Devices
We're starting to see a proliferation of smart devices that can be controlled from your phone. The security risk is, of course, that anyone can control them from...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2014)
I'm at SHB 2014: the Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. This is a small invitational gathering of people studying various...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
Rhymes with Orange. 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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GCHQ Intercept Sites in Oman
Last June, the Guardian published a story about GCHQ tapping fiber-optic Internet cables around the globe, part of a program codenamed TEMPURA. One of the facts...
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Edward Snowden Wins EPIC "Champion of Freedom" Award
On Monday I had the honor of presenting Edward Snowden with a "Champion of Freedom" award at the EPIC dinner. Snowden couldn't be there in person -- his father...
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The Human Side of Heartbleed
The announcement on April 7 was alarming. A new Internet vulnerability called Heartbleed could allow hackers to steal your logins and passwords. It affected a piece...
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Chinese Hacking of the US
Chinese hacking of American computer networks is old news. For years we've known about their attacks against U.S. government and corporate targets. We've seen detailed...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped Pancakes
Here are pictures of squid-shaped pancakes. 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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Vulnerabilities Found in Law Enforcement Surveillance System
SEC Consult has published an advisory warning people not to use a government eavesdropping product called Recording eXpress, sold by the Israeli company Nice Systems...
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TrueCrypt WTF
I have no idea what's going on with TrueCrypt. Good summary of story is a ArsTechnica, and SlashDot, Hacker News, and Reddit all have long comment threads. See...
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Eben Moglen on Snowden and Surveillance
This is well worth reading. It's based on a series of talks he gave last fall....
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The Economics of Bulk Surveillance
Ross Anderson has an important new paper on the economics that drive government-on-population bulk surveillance: My first big point is that all the three factors...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink Cocktail
Del Campo, a restaurant in Washington DC, has a Bloody Mary made with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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Alan Watts on the Harms of Surveillance
Biologist Alan Watts makes some good points: Mammals don’t respond well to surveillance. We consider it a threat. It makes us paranoid, and aggressive and vengeful...
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Disclosing vs Hoarding Vulnerabilities
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government -- specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Comman -- should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities...
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The NSA is Not Made of Magic
I am regularly asked what is the most surprising thing about the Snowden NSA documents. It's this: the NSA is not made of magic. Its tools are no different from...
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Government Policy on Cell Phone Interception Technology
New paper: "Your Secret Stingray's No Secret Anymore: The Vanishing Government Monopoly Over Cell Phone Surveillance and its Impact on National Security and Consumer...
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Preplay Attack on Chip and PIN
Interesting research paper on a bank card chip-and-PIN vulnerability. From the blog post: Our new paper shows that it is possible to create clone chip cards which...
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Advances in Solving the Discrete Log Problem
At Eurocrypt this year, researchers presented a paper that completely breaks the discrete log problem in any field with a small characteristic. It's nice work,...
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