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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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More NSA Code Names
We don't know what they mean, but there are a bunch of NSA code names on LinkedIn profiles. ANCHORY, AMHS, NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF, ARCMAP, SIGNAV, COASTLINE, DISHFIRE...
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The NSA's Project SHAMROCK
Nice history of Project SHAMROCK, the NSA's illegal domestic surveillance program from the 1970s. It targeted telegrams.
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Musing on Secret Languages
This is really interesting. It starts by talking about a "cant" dictionary of 16th-century thieves' argot, and ends up talking about secret languages in general...
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The Effectiveness of Privacy Audits
This study concludes that there is a benefit to forcing companies to undergo privacy audits: "The results show that there are empirical regularities consistent...
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Another Perspective on the Value of Privacy
A philosophical perspective: But while Descartes's overall view has been rightly rejected, there is something profoundly right about the connection between privacy...
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Big Data Surveillance Results in Bad Policy
Evgeny Morozov makes a point about surveillance and big data: it just looks for useful correlations without worrying about causes, and leads people to implement...
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Protecting E-Mail from Eavesdropping
In the wake of the Snowden NSA documents, reporters have been asking me whether encryption can solve the problem. Leaving aside the fact that much of what theadvice...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Origami Squid
Giant origami squid photo found -- without explanation -- on Reddit. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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How Apple Continues to Make Security Invisible
Interesting article: Apple is famously focused on design and human experience as their top guiding principles. When it comes to security, that focus created a...
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Sixth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Sixth Mostly-Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: For this year's contest, I want a cyberwar movie-plot threat. (For those who don't know...
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Is Cryptography Engineering or Science?
Responding to a tweet by Thomas Ptacek saying, "If you're not learning crypto by coding attacks, you might not actually be learning crypto," Colin Percival published...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Defends NSA Surveillance Programs
Here's a transcript of a panel discussion about NSA surveillance. There's a lot worth reading here, but I want to quote Bob Litt's opening remarks. He's the General...
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Privacy Protests
Interesting law journal article: "Privacy Protests: Surveillance Evasion and Fourth Amendment Suspicion," by Elizabeth E. Joh. Abstract: The police tend to think...
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US Department of Defense Censors Snowden Story
The US Department of Defense is blocking sites that are reporting about the Snowden documents. I presume they're not censoring sites that are smearing him personally...
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Security Analysis of Children
This is a really good paper describing the unique threat model of children in the home, and the sorts of security philosophies that are effective in dealing with...
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NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
More Snowden documents analyzed by the Guardian -- two articles -- discuss how the NSA collected e-mails and data on Internet activity of both Americans and foreigners...
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How the NSA Eavesdrops on Americans
Two weeks ago, the Guardian published two new Snowden documents. These outline how the NSA's data-collection procedures allow it to collect lots of data on Americans...
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SIMON and SPECK: New NSA Encryption Algorithms
The NSA has published some new symmetric algorithms: Abstract: In this paper we propose two families of block ciphers, SIMON and SPECK, each of which comes in...
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