WhatsApp in India
April 30 2024Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
Read moreWhale Song Code
April 29 2024During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song.
The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales,...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid
April 27 2024A cruise ship is searching for the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreLong Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
April 26 2024Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
Read moreThe Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
April 25 2024The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much...
Read moreDan Solove on Privacy Regulation
April 24 2024Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade,...
Read moreMicrosoft and Security Incentives
April 23 2024Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft:
Grotto told us Microsoft had to...
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Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
April 22 2024Interesting social-engineering attack vector:
McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
April 20 2024A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
Read moreOther Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
April 18 2024After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique:
The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious...
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