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Read moreBart Gellman on Snowden
May 20 2020Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, will finally be published in a couple of weeks....
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May 20 2020I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked bandits held up banks...
Read moreAI and Cybersecurity
May 19 2020Ben Buchanan has written "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence." It's really good -- well worth reading....
Read moreRamsey Malware
May 18 2020A new malware, called Ramsey, can jump air gaps: ESET said they've been able to track down three different versions of the Ramsay malware, one compiled in September 2019...
Read moreIt's beyond Beyond Meat. A Singapore company wants to make vegan "squid" -- and shrimp and crab -- from chickpeas. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
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