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Detaining David Miranda 27 Aug 2013 | 04:39 pm
Last Sunday, David Miranda was detained while changing planes at London Heathrow Airport by British authorities for nine hours under a controversial British law -- the maximum time allowable without m...
Protecting Against Leakers 26 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing has concentrated on government's sec...
"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act" 26 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
Orin Kerr envisions what the ECPA should look like today: Abstract: In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government access to Internet communications...
Friday Squid Blogging: New Research in How Squids Change Color 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Interesting: Structural colors rely exclusively on the density and shape of the material rather than its chemical properties. The latest research from the UCSB team shows that specialized cells in th...
How Security Becomes Banal 23 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Interesting paper: "The Banality of Security: The Curious Case of Surveillance Cameras," by Benjamin Goold, Ian Loader, and Angélica Thumala (full paper is behind a paywall). Abstract: Why do certain...
Hacking Consumer Devices 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Last weekend, a Texas couple apparently discovered that the electronic baby monitor in their children's bedroom had been hacked. According to a local TV station, the couple said they heard an unfamili...
Susan Landau Article on the Snowden Documents 22 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Really good article by Susan Landau on the Snowden documents and what they mean.
Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption 21 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
There have been a bunch of articles about an information theory paper with vaguely sensational headlines like "Encryption is less secure than we thought" and "Research shakes crypto foundations." It's...
Teens and Privacy 20 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
Not much surprising in this new survey. Many teens ages 12-17 report that they usually figure out how to manage content sharing and privacy settings on their own. Focus group interviews with teens su...
The Cryptopocalypse 19 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
There was a presentation at Black Hat last month warning us of a "factoring cryptopocalypse": a moment when factoring numbers and solving the discrete log problem become easy, and both RSA and DH brea...
