Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game
July 13 2024I didn’t know:
In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps built into its...
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The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
July 12 2024The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing...
Read moreApple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
July 11 2024Not a lot of details: Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second...
Read moreRADIUS Vulnerability
July 10 2024New attack against the RADIUS authentication protocol:
The Blast-RADIUS attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker between the RADIUS client and server to forge a valid protocol accept message in response...
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Reverse-Engineering Ticketmaster’s Barcode System
July 10 2024Interesting: By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch...
Read moreProPublica has a long investigative article on how the Cyber Safety Review Board failed to investigate the SolarWinds attack, and specifically Microsoft’s culpability, even though they were directed by...
Read moreA new vampire squid species was discovered in the South China Sea. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreNew Open SSH Vulnerability
July 3 2024It’s a serious one:
The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root on glibc-based Linux systems;...
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Public Surveillance of Bars
July 2 2024This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.
Read moreUpcoming Book on AI and Democracy
July 2 2024If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce...
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