It’s pretty devastating:
Today, Ian Carroll, Lennert Wouters, and a team of other security researchers are revealing a hotel keycard hacking technique they call Unsaflok. The technique is...
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On Secure Voting Systems
March 26 2024Andrew Appel shepherded a public comment—signed by twenty election cybersecurity experts, including myself—on best practices for ballot marking devices and vote tabulation. It was written for the Pennsylvania...
Read moreLicensing AI Engineers
March 25 2024The debate over professionalizing software engineers is decades old. (The basic idea is that, like lawyers and architects, there should be some professional licensing requirement for software engineers.) Here’s...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: New Species of Squid Discovered
March 23 2024A new species of squid was discovered, along with about a hundred other species. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
Read moreGoogle Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023
March 22 2024BleepingComputer has the details. It’s $2M less than in 2022, but it’s still a lot.
The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total...
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Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI
March 21 2024This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. It’s nothing I haven’t said here before, but for anyone...
Read moreAI and the Evolution of Social Media
March 19 2024Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed...
Read moreDrones and the US Air Force
March 18 2024Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change.
The F-35A certainly remains...
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