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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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Analysis of the FBI's Failure to Stop the Boston Marathon Bombings
Detailed response and analysis of the inspectors general report on the Boston Marathon bombings: Two opposite mistakes in an after-the-fact review of a terrorist...
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Really Weird Keith Alexander Interview
Comedian John Oliver interviewed now-retired NSA director General Keith Alexander. It's truly weird....
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The Federal Reserve System's Cyberdefense Force
Interesting article on the cybersecurity branch of the Federal Reserve System....
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Tracking People from Smartphone Accelerometers
It's been long known that individual analog devices have their own fingerprints. Decades ago, individual radio transmitters were identifiable and trackable. Now...
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The Quantified Toilet Hoax
Good essay on the Quantified Toilet hoax, and the difference between public surveillance and private self-surveillance....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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