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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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Fake Documents that Alarm if Opened
This sort of thing seems like a decent approach, but it has a lot of practical problems: In the wake of Wikileaks, the Department of Defense has stepped up its...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Star Trek IV, now with Squid
Someone edited Star Trek IV, removing the whales and replacing them with giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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Weaponized UAV Drones in the Hands of Local Police
Why does anyone think this is a good idea? The police in Montgomery County
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Journal Article on Cyberwar
From the Journal of Strategic Studies: "Cyber War Will Not Take Place" (full article is behind a paywall): Abstract: For almost two decades, experts and defense...
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Underage Children on Facebook
Interesting research on how parents help their children lie about their age to get onto Facebook. One reaction to our data might be that companies should not be...
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DARPA Cyber Colloquium
I note that the three "industry leaders" speaking at the DARPA Cyber Colloquium next week have about 75 years of government experience between them.
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Cell Phone Surveillance System
I was not surprised that police forces are buying this system, but at its capabilities. Britain's largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology...
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Another ATM Theft Tactic
This brazen tactic is from Malaysia. Robbers sabotage the machines, and then report the damage to the bank. When the banks send repair technicians to open and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Kid Eating Squid
It's hard to tell if he likes it. 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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Full Extent of the Attack that Compromised RSA in March
Brian Kerbs has done the analysis; it's something like 760 companies that were compromised. Among the more interesting names on the list are Abbott Labs, the Alabama...
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Secret Codes in Bacteria
Neat: Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. In addition to being useful...
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The Security of SSL
EFF reports on the security of SSL: The most interesting entry in that table is the "CA compromise" one, because those are incidents that could affect any or every...
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Cracking the Copiale Cipher
I don't follow historical cryptography, so all of this comes as a surprise to me. But something called the Copiale Cipher from the 18th Century has been cracked...
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Demands from Law Enforcement for Google Data
Google releases statistics: Google received more than 15,600 requests in the January-June period, 10 percent more than the final six months of last year. The requests...
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Twofish Mentioned in Thriller Novel
I've been told that the Twofish encryption algorithm is mentioned in the book Abuse of Power, in the first paragraph of Chapter 3. Did rhe terrorists use it?...
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NSA Acronyms
The second document in this file is the recently unclassified "Guide to Historical Cryptologic Acronyms and Abbreviations, 1940-1980," from the NSA Note that there...
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Blue Coat Products Enable Web Censorship in Syria
It's illegal for Blue Coat to sell its technology for this purpose, but there are lots of third-parties who are willing to act as middlemen: "Blue Coat does not...
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