Facebook to throw out face recognition, delete all template data
November 3 2021Publicity stunt? Or privacy progress?
Read moreHow the FBI Gets Location Information
October 27 2021Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.
Read moreS3 Ep55: Live malware, global encryption, dating scams, and secret emanations [Podcasts]
October 21 2021Latest episode - listen now! (And sign up for our forthcoming Live Malware Demo at the same time.)
Read moreUsing Machine Learning to Guess PINs from Video
October 19 2021Researchers trained a machine-learning system on videos of people typing their PINs into ATMs: By using three tries, which is typically the maximum allowed number of attempts before the card...
Read moreRecovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System
October 14 2021New paper: “This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces.
Abstract: Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved stunning realism, fooling even human observers. Indeed, the...
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Serious Security: How to make sure you don’t miss bug reports!
September 13 2021Hey, let's create a text file that lists our security contacts! We'll call it... security DOT txt.
Read moreDesigning Contact-Tracing Apps
September 13 2021Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps. Also see her excellent book on the topic.
Read moreProtonMail Now Keeps IP Logs
September 10 2021After being compelled by a Swiss court to monitor IP logs for a particular user, ProtonMail no longer claims that “we do not keep any IP logs.”
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