Serious Security: Why learning to touch-type could protect you from audio snooping
August 9 2023Fast, quiet, smooth, consistent and low impact... why true hacker-grade touch-typing might keep you more secure.
Read moreAI and Microdirectives
July 21 2023Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.
All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by...
Read moreThe French police are getting new surveillance powers:
French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and...
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Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
July 12 2023No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years:
Research and development: Google uses...
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Privacy of Printing Services
July 11 2023The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing:
Ideally,...
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S3 Ep142: Putting the X in X-Ops
July 7 2023How to get all your corporate "Ops" teams working together, with cybersecurity correctness as a guiding light.
Read morePolice are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:
While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement...
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S3 Ep141: What was Steve Jobs’s first job?
June 30 2023Latest episode - listen now! (Full transcript inside.)
Read moreDoes swapping your password regularly make it a better password?
Read moreSnowden Ten Years Later
June 6 2023In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as...
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