secrecy
ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US: When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely think of the ...
Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age
Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Wired has an excerpt: In short, data volume and accessibility are revolutionizing sensemaking. The intelligence ...
Self-teaching a little security thinking
There’s a particular mindset we call security thinking. I’ve also seen it called ‘reasoned paranoia.’ The National Security Agency (NSA) recently published a survey of Internet conferencing products that’s interesting for its ...
This photo should not exist
pin.it/fnnc4j6fjamugy Once we get past the creep factor of Nazi army uniforms, we see a communications team sending a secret message. They are using the legendary Enigma machine to encrypt the message ...
WPA3
Everyone is writing about the new WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, and how it improves security over the current WPA2 standard. This summary is as good as any other: The first big new ...
Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that contains secret information, in ...
