Friday Squid Blogging: Giggling Squid
June 24 2023Giggling Squid is a Thai chain in the UK. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreUPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks
June 23 2023I get UPS phishing spam on my phone all the time. I never click on it, because it’s so obviously spam. Turns out that hackers have been harvesting actual...
Read moreAI as Sensemaking for Public Comments
June 22 2023It’s become fashionable to think of artificial intelligence as an inherently dehumanizing technology, a ruthless force of automation that has unleashed legions of virtual skilled laborers in...
Read moreEthical Problems in Computer Security
June 22 2023Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh wrote excellent paper on ethical thinking within the computer security community: “Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversation“:
Abstract:...
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Power LED Side-Channel Attack
June 19 2023This is a clever new side-channel attack:
The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader—or...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their RNA
June 17 2023This is just crazy:
Scientists don’t yet know for sure why octopuses, and other shell-less cephalopods including squid and cuttlefish, are such prolific editors. Researchers are debating whether this...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
June 17 2023I’m just back from the sixteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop...
Read moreOn the Need for an AI Public Option
June 14 2023Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies?
Silicon...
Read moreIdentifying the Idaho Killer
June 13 2023The New York Times has a long article on the investigative techniques used to identify the person who stabbed and killed four University of Idaho students.
Pay attention to...
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