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James Mickens gave an excellent keynote at the USENIX Security Conference last week, talking about the social aspects of security—racism, sexism, etc.—and the problems with machine learning and the Internet.
Worth watching.
Ross Anderson gave a talk on the history of the Crypto Wars in the UK. I am intimately familiar with the US story, but didn’t know as much about Britain’s version.
This is my talk at the RSA Conference last month. It’s on regulation and the Internet of Things, along the lines of this essay.
I am slowly meandering around this as a book topic. It hasn’t quite solidified yet.
Last November, I gave a talk at the TEDMED Conference on health and medical data privacy. The talk is online.
This Verge article isn’t great, but we are certainly moving into a future where audio and video will be easy to fake, and easier to fake undetectably. This is going to make propaganda easier, with all of the ill effects we’ve already seen turned up to eleven.
I don’t have a good solution for this.
New Atlas has a great three-part feature on the history of hacking as portrayed in films, including video clips. The 1980s. The 1990s. The 2000s.
Richard Thieme gave a talk on the psychological impact of doing classified intelligence work. Summary here.
Last month, the Cato Institute held its Second Annual Cato Surveillance Conference. It was an excellent event, with many interesting talks and panels. But their was one standout: a panel by victims of surveillance. Titled “The Feeling of Being Watched,” it consisted of Assia Boundaoui, Faisal Gill, and Jumana Musa. It was very powerful and moving to hear them talk about what it’s like to live under the constant threat of surveillance.
Watch the video or listen to the audio.
The show is about security theater. I am a disembodied head on a scooter.
Here’s a teaser. Here’s the full episode (for pay, but cheap).
The scooter idea was a hack when I couldn’t find the time to fly to LA for live filming. The whole thing was a lot of fun.
It’s not just humans who dislike the small flying objects. YouTube has videos of drones being stared at quizzically by a moose, harassed by a raven, attacked by a hawk, butted by a ram, knocked out of the sky by a chimpanzee (who planned the whole thing) and a goose, and punched out of the sky by a kangaroo.
And bears hate them, even if they don’t actually attack.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.