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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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Syrian Electronic Army Cyberattacks
The Syrian Electronic Army attacked again this week, compromising the websites of the New York Times, Twitter, the Huffington Post, and others. Political hacking...
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Our Newfound Fear of Risk
We're afraid of risk. It's a normal part of life, but we're increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem...
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1983 Article on the NSA
The moral is that NSA surveillance overreach has been going on for a long, long time.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Photo
Pretty. 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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Opsec Details of Snowden Meeting with Greenwald and Poitras
I don't like stories about the personalities in the Snowden affair, because it detracts from the NSA and the policy issues. But I'm a sucker for operational security...
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More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet
If there's any confirmation that the U.S. government has commandeered the Internet for worldwide surveillance, it is what happened with Lavabit earlier this month...
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How Many Leakers Came Before Snowden?
Assume it's really true that the NSA has no idea what documents Snowden took, and that they wouldn't even know he'd taken anything if he hadn't gone public. The...
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The Federal Trade Commission and Privacy
New paper on the FTC and its actions to protect privacy: Abstract: One of the great ironies about information privacy law is that the primary regulation of privacy...
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Feds Target Polygraph-Beating Company
A company that teaches people how to beat lie detectors is under investigation.
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Evading Internet Censorship
This research project by Brandon Wiley -- the tool is called "Dust" -- looks really interesting. Here's the description of his Defcon talk: Abstract: The greatest...
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More on NSA Data Collection
There's an article from Wednesday's Wall Street Journal that gives more details about the NSA's data collection efforts. The system has the capacity to reach roughly...
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Detaining David Miranda
Last Sunday, David Miranda was detained while changing planes at London Heathrow Airport by British authorities for nine hours under a controversial British law...
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Protecting Against Leakers
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing...
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"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act"
Orin Kerr envisions what the ECPA should look like today: Abstract: In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Research in How Squids Change Color
Interesting: Structural colors rely exclusively on the density and shape of the material rather than its chemical properties. The latest research from the UCSB...
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How Security Becomes Banal
Interesting paper: "The Banality of Security: The Curious Case of Surveillance Cameras," by Benjamin Goold, Ian Loader, and Angélica Thumala (full paper is behind...
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Hacking Consumer Devices
Last weekend, a Texas couple apparently discovered that the electronic baby monitor in their children's bedroom had been hacked. According to a local TV station...
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Susan Landau Article on the Snowden Documents
Really good article by Susan Landau on the Snowden documents and what they mean.
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Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption
There have been a bunch of articles about an information theory paper with vaguely sensational headlines like "Encryption is less secure than we thought" and "Research...
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