New research: One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with…
Category: Schneier on Security
Tradecraft in the Information Age
Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Tradecraft in the Information Age
Using Signal Groups for Activism
Good tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Using Signal Groups for Activism
Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak
This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military bases.) This is ridiculous. Why do people continue to make their data public?…
Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections
A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted…
Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns
Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran. Well, that’s one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation campaigns. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original…
How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems
American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly. Some voters accept election results only when their side wins. The problem isn’t just political polarization—it’s…
Friday Squid Blogging: What to Do When You Find a Squid “Egg Mop”
Tips on what to do if you find a mop of squid eggs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. This article…
The Age of Integrity
We need to talk about data integrity. Narrowly, the term refers to ensuring that data isn’t tampered with, either in transit or in storage. Manipulating account balances in bank databases, removing entries from criminal records, and murder by removing notations…
White House Bans WhatsApp
Reuters is reporting that the White House has banned WhatsApp on all employee devices: The notice said the “Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user…