Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland
It’s the second in two months. Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
View ArticleUS Army Researching Bot Swarms
The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied research to extend the reach,...
View ArticleAlternatives to Government-Mandated Encryption Backdoors
Policy essay: “Encryption Substitutes,” by Andrew Keane Woods: In this short essay, I make a few simple assumptions that bear mentioning at the outset. First, I assume that governments have good and...
View ArticleRoombas will Spy on You
The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects. Some questions: What happens if a Roomba user consents to the data collection and later...
View ArticleFiring a Locked Smart Gun
The Armatix IP1 “smart gun” can only be fired by someone who is wearing a special watch. Unfortunately, this security measure is easily hackable.
View ArticleZero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the...
In April, the Shadow Brokers—presumably Russia—released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different Windows vulnerabilities. Given a...
View ArticleMe on Restaurant Surveillance Technology
I attended the National Restaurant Association exposition in Chicago earlier this year, and looked at all the ways modern restaurant IT is spying on people. But there’s also a fundamentally creepy...
View ArticleFriday Squid Blogging: Giant Squids Have Small Brains
New research: In this study, the optic lobe of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux, male, mantle length 89 cm), which was caught by local fishermen off the northeastern coast of Taiwan, was scanned using...
View ArticleMeasuring Vulnerability Rediscovery
New paper: “Taking Stock: Estimating Vulnerability Rediscovery,” by Trey Herr, Bruce Schneier, and Christopher Morris: Abstract: How often do multiple, independent, parties discover the same...
View ArticleRobot Safecracking
Robots can crack safes faster than humans—and differently: So Seidle started looking for shortcuts. First he found that, like many safes, his SentrySafe had some tolerance for error. If the combination...
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