Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Captured on Video
January 21 2023Here’s a new video of a giant squid, filmed in the Sea of Japan. I believe it’s injured. It’s so close to the surface, and not really moving very much. “We...
Read moreReal-World Steganography
January 20 2023From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his...
Read moreSecurity Analysis of Threema
January 19 2023A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema.
We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than...
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AI and Political Lobbying
January 18 2023Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing.
Created by...
Read moreThe FBI Identified a Tor User
January 17 2023No details, though:
According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May...
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Hacked Cellebrite and MSAB Software Released
January 16 2023Cellebrite is an cyberweapons arms manufacturer that sells smartphone forensic software to governments around the world. MSAB is a Swedish company that does the same thing. Someone has released...
Read moreBooklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
January 15 2023Booklist reviews A Hacker’s Mind:
Author and public-interest security technologist Schneier (Data and Goliath, 2015) defines a “hack” as an activity allowed by a system “that subverts the rules...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How to Buy Fresh or Frozen Squid
January 14 2023Good advice on buying squid. I like to buy whole fresh squid and clean it myself. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreThreats of Machine-Generated Text
January 13 2023With the release of ChatGPT, I’ve read many random articles about this or that threat from the technology. This paper is a good survey of the field:...
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