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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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Unlocking iPhones with Dead People's Fingerprints
It's routine for US police to unlock iPhones with the fingerprints of dead people. It seems only to work with recently dead people....
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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data...
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Another Branch Prediction Attack
When Spectre and Meltdown were first announced earlier this year, pretty much everyone predicted that there would be many more attacks targeting branch prediction...
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Breaking the Anonymity in the Cryptocurrency Monero
Researchers have exploited a flaw in the cryptocurrency Monero to break the anonymity of transactions. Research paper. BoingBoing post....
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Tracing Stolen Bitcoin
Ross Anderson has a really interesting paper on tracing stolen bitcoin. From a blog post: Previous attempts to track tainted coins had used either the "poison"...
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Fooling Face Recognition with Infrared Light
Yet another development in the arms race between facial recognition systems and facial-recognition-system foolers. BoingBoing post....
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Adding Backdoors at the Chip Level
Interesting research into undetectably adding backdoors into computer chips during manufacture: "Stealthy dopant-level hardware Trojans: extended version," also...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Stealing Food from Each Other
An interesting hunting strategy: Off of northern Spain, giant squid often feed on schools of fish called blue whiting. The schools swim 400 meters or less below...
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Zeynep Tufekci on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Zeynep Tufekci is particularly cogent about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Several news outlets asked me to write about this issue. I didn't, because 1) my book...
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GreyKey iPhone Unlocker
Some details about the iPhone unlocker from the US company Greyshift, with photos. Little is known about Grayshift or its sales model at this point. We don't know...
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Reverse Engineering the Cuban Sonic Weapon
Interesting analysis and speculation....
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Hijacking Computers for Cryptocurrency Mining
Interesting paper "A first look at browser-based cryptojacking": Abstract: In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies...
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Dan Geer on the Dangers of Computer-Only Systems
A good warning, delivered in classic Dan Geer style....
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Israeli Security Attacks AMD by Publishing Zero-Day Exploits
Last week, the Israeli security company CTS Labs published a series of exploits against AMD chips. The publication came with the flashy website, detailed whitepaper...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered in Australia
A new species of pygmy squid was discovered in Western Australia. It's pretty cute. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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Interesting Article on Marcus Hutchins
This is a good article on the complicated story of hacker Marcus Hutchins....
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Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance
Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the...
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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With
One of the effects of GDPR -- the new EU General Data Protection Regulation -- is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and...
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E-Mailing Private HTTPS Keys
I don't know what to make of this story: The email was sent on Tuesday by the CEO of Trustico, a UK-based reseller of TLS certificates issued by the browser-trusted...
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