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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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Poached Eggs
The story of people who poach and collect rare eggs, and the people who hunt them down. Securing wildlife against poachers is a difficult problem, especially when...
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Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing
Former NSA director Michael Hayden lists three effects of the Snowden documents: "...the undeniable operational effect of informing adversaries of American intelligence's...
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NSA Implements Two-Man Control for Sysadmins
In an effort to lock the barn door after the horse has escaped, the NSA is implementing two-man control for sysadmins: NSA chief Keith Alexander said his agency...
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How the FISA Court Undermines Trust
This is a succinct explanation of how the secrecy of the FISA court undermines trust. Surveillance types make a distinction between secrecy of laws, secrecy of...
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Marc Rotenberg on the NSA Supreme Court Suit
Marc Rotenberg of EPIC explains why he is suing the NSA in the Supreme Court. And USA Today has a back and forth on the topic.
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Prosecuting Snowden
I generally don't like stories about Snowden as a person, because they distract from the real story of the NSA surveillance programs, but this article on the costs...
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Violence as a Source of Trust in Criminal Societies
This is interesting: If I know that you have committed a violent act, and you know that I have committed a violent act, we each have information on each otherAbstract...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Paul Burke Giant Squid Sculpture
The wood sculpture is part of an art exhibit at the VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver.
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TSA Considering Implementing Randomized Security
For a change, here's a good idea by the TSA: TSA has just issued a Request for Information (RFI) to prospective vendors who could develop and supply such randomizers...
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Counterterrorism Mission Creep
One of the assurances I keep hearing about the U.S. government's spying on American citizens is that it's only used in cases of terrorism. Terrorism is, of course...
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PRISM Q&A
Mikko Hypponen and I answered questions about PRISM on the TED website.
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Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
Edward Snowden has set up a dead man's switch. He's distributed encrypted copies of his document trove to various people, and has set up some sort of automatic...
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DHS Puts its Head in the Sand
On the subject of the recent Washington Post Snowden document, the DHS sent this e-mail out to at least some of its employees: From: xxxxx Sent: Thursday, July...
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Tapping Undersea Cables
Good article on the longstanding practice of secretly tapping undersea cables. This is news right now because of a new Snowden document.
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The Value of Breaking the Law
Interesting essay on the impossibility of being entirely lawful all the time, the balance that results from the difficulty of law enforcement, and the societalwithout...
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A Problem with the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
I haven't heard much about the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. They recently held hearings regarding the Snowden documents. This particular comment...
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Walls Around Nations
A political history of walls: Roman walls such as Hadrian's Wall, the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the wall between Mexico and the U.S. Moral: they...
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My Fellowship at the Berkman Center
I have been awarded a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, for the 2013–2014 academic year. I'm excited about this;...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid–Bacteria Symbiotic Relationships
This is really interesting research. 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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