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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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On Surveillance in the Workplace
Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance...
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Russia Is Testing Online Voting
This is a bad idea: A second innovation will allow "electronic absentee voting" within voters' home precincts. In other words, Russia is set to introduce its first...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Proteins Can Be an Alternative to Plastic
Is there anything squids aren't good for? Academic paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Videos and Links from the Public-Interest Technology Track at the RSA Conference
Yesterday at the RSA Conference, I gave a keynote talk about the role of public-interest technologists in cybersecurity. (Video here). I also hosted a one-day mini...
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Cybersecurity Insurance Not Paying for NotPetya Losses
This will complicate things: To complicate matters, having cyber insurance might not cover everyone's losses. Zurich American Insurance Company refused to pay out...
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Detecting Shoplifting Behavior
This system claims to detect suspicious behavior that indicates shoplifting: Vaak, a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that hunts...
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Letterlocking
Really good article on the now-lost art of letterlocking....
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Digital Signatures in PDFs Are Broken
Researchers have demonstrated spoofing of digital signatures in PDF files. This would matter more if PDF digital signatures were widely used. Still, the researchers...
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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest
The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices...
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The Latest in Creepy Spyware
The Nest home alarm system shipped with a secret microphone, which -- according to the company -- was only an accidental secret: On Tuesday, a Google spokesperson...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid-Processing Facility
China is building the largest squid processing center in the world. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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Data Leakage from Encrypted Databases
Matthew Green has a super-interesting blog post about information leakage from encrypted databases. It describes the recent work by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharit...
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Can Everybody Read the US Terrorist Watch List?
After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1...
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"Insider Threat" Detection Software
Notice this bit from an article on the arrest of Christopher Hasson: It was only after Hasson's arrest last Friday at his workplace that the chilling plans prosecutors...
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Attacking Soldiers on Social Media
A research group at NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise -- we don't know what country...
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On the Security of Password Managers
There's new research on the security of password managers, speficially 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage...
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Friday Squid Blogging: A Tracking Device for Squid
Really: After years of "making do" with the available technology for his squid studies, Mooney created a versatile tag that allows him to research squid behavior...
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Gen. Nakasone on US CyberCommand
Really interesting article by and interview with Paul M. Nakasone (Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of the Central...
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Reverse Location Search Warrants
The police are increasingly getting search warrants for information about all cellphones in a certain location at a certain time: Police departments across the...
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