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28 Apr 2016, 7:39 am by Paul Rosenzweig
And over on Twitter, co-blogger Nicholas Weaver, also chimed in on the bet, saying that the vulnerability would be disclosed. [read post]
23 Apr 2016, 7:41 am by Alex R. McQuade
Nicholas Weaver debuted his new series Nick Asks the NSA, asking about Signaling System 7. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 12:58 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Russia has started to move artillery to areas in northern Syria where Syrian government forces have begun to group up, potentially in preparation for a return to fighting. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 7:51 am by Alex R. McQuade
Nicholas Weaver commented on the FBI’s secret Firefox exploit. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 12:48 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Islamic State fighters abducted at least 170 workers from a cement factory this week. [read post]
19 Mar 2016, 8:09 am by Alex R. McQuade
Nicholas Weaver examined a FBI hacking warrant and “Network Investigatory Techniques. [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 3:22 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry determined that the Islamic State’s actions against Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitute a genocide. [read post]
5 Mar 2016, 7:53 am by Alex R. McQuade
And Nicholas Weaver analyzed what the next Apple case might look like in the future. [read post]
27 Feb 2016, 7:46 am by Alex R. McQuade
Nicholas Weaver recommended destroying Pandora’s iPhone because it would “provide the FBI with the data they desire without risking a dangerous precedent. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 1:14 pm by Paul Rosenzweig
  Co-blogger Nicholas Weaver has written about the IoT as a "Global Spy System" that can pervasively collect information on us and even, potentially, kill us. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 1:09 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Calling South Korea’s decision to suspend operations at the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone a “declaration of war,” North Korea has moved to kick out all South Koreans from the area. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 5:53 pm by Brian Nussbaum
The rapid growth of embedded computing and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) have been felt in many industries and areas, but few organizations and jurisdictions have been affected as quickly and as deeply as cities. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 7:29 am by Alex R. McQuade
 Nicholas Weaver responded to Ben’s “out-of-the-box” idea and argued that “a backdoor mandate by another name is still a backdoor mandate. [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 3:32 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In a talk at Usenix Enigma, a new security conference, Nicholas Weaver from the International Computer Science Institute explained the general technical details behind the NSA’s mass surveillance systems, and touched upon a number of problems with PGP. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 7:29 am by Alex R. McQuade
Nicholas Weaver shared his talk, “The Golden Age of Bulk Surveillance,” that he gave at Usenix’s Enigma Conference. [read post]
12 Dec 2015, 7:09 am by Elina Saxena
Nicholas Weaver explained the dangers of targeting default security settings in technological systems. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 12:56 pm by Elina Saxena
In a new exposé about the Islamic State’s oil trade, the Daily Beast’s Matthew Reed writes that while the “majority of ISIS oil is purchased by locals inside ISIS territory," the Syrian regime itself “has done business with ISIS from day one, just as it did with al Qaeda’s Nusra Front and other rebels who took over energy assets early in the war. [read post]
21 Nov 2015, 5:26 am by Elina Saxena
”   In suggesting that "the modern world is a virtual panopticon, a surveillance state which records huge quantities of data about our every action and provides an easily retrievable metadata record of our movements, our contacts, our purchases, and our activities,” Nicholas Weaver wrote on the limits of that panopticon in reference to the Paris attacks. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 2:22 pm by Elina Saxena, Cody M. Poplin
French President François Hollande has called for the United States, Russia, and France to form a global coalition to fight against ISIS. [read post]