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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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NSA Collects Hundreds of Millions of Text Messages Daily
No surprise here. Although we some new codenames: DISHFIRE: The NSA's program to collect text messages and text-message metadata. PREFER: The NSA's program to...
From Schneier on Security
SIERRAMONTANA: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: SIERRAMONTANA (TS//SI//REL) SIERRAMONTANA provides persistence for DNThere...
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Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
This morning I spent an hour in a closed room with six Members of Congress: Rep. Logfren, Rep. Sensenbrenner, Rep. Scott, Rep. Goodlate, Rep Thompson, and Rep....
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Cell Phone Tracking by Non-State Actors
This is interesting: Adding credence to the theory that Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark was kidnapped and murdered by professionals, a law enforcement source ...
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SCHOOLMONTANA: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: SCHOOLMONTANA (TS//SI//REL) SCHOOLMONTANA provides persistence for DNThere...
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The Changing Cost of Surveillance
From Ashkan Soltani's blog post: The Yale Law Journal Online (YLJO) just published an article that I co-authored with Kevin Bankston (first workshopped at the ...
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HEADWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HEADWATER (TS//SI//REL) HEADWATER is a Persistent Backdoor (PDB) software...
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Debunking the "NSA Mass Surveillance Could Have Stopped 9/11" Myth
It's something that we're hearing a lot, both from NSA Director General Keith Alexander and others: the NSA's mass surveillance programs could have stopped 9/11...
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SOUFFLETROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
One of the top secret NSA documents published by Der Spiegel is a 50-page catalog of "implants" from the NSA's Tailored Access Group. Because the individual implants...
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How the NSA Threatens National Security
Secret NSA eavesdropping is still in the news. Details about once secret programs continue to leak. The Director of National Intelligence has recently declassified...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid New Year
Happy squid new year. 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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1971 FBI Burglary
Interesting story: ...burglars took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with...
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JETPLOW: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: JETPLOW (TS//SI//REL) JETPLOW is a firmware persistence implant for Cisco...
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Security Risks of Embedded Systems
We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself -- as with the Internet of Things...
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HALLUXWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HALLUXWATER (TS//SI//REL) The HALLUXWATER Persistence Back Door implant...
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The Failure of Privacy Notices and Consumer Choice
Paper from First Monday: "Transaction costs, privacy, and trust: The laudable goals and ultimate failure of notice and choice to respect privacy." Abstract:...
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GOURMETTROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
Continuing our walk through the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GOURMETTROUGH (TS//SI//REL) GOURMETTROUGH is a user configurable...
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Matt Blaze on TAO's Methods
Matt Blaze makes a point that I have been saying for a while now: Don't get me wrong, as a security specialist, the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) scare...
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