Supplemental Letter to PJCIS regarding Assistance and Access Bill
Letter to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding a proposed "compromise" version of the Assistan…
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The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website to Unmask a Cybercriminal
"“What kinds of criminals mask their location, and for what kinds of crimes? Child pornography, yes; violent threats, yes; but also organized-crime rings e…
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New Spanish Law raises concerns over use of sensitive data by political parties
The new Law on Data Protection and Digital Rights (LOPD), recently enacted in Spain, includes a highly controversial provision allowing political parties and or…
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Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Meaning, Part 2
“Tool Without A Handle”: Tools and the Search for Meaning – Part II If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but t…
The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia
On November 4, 2016, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” a front for Russia’s military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use…
Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk
"Law professor Ryan Calo, co-director of the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab, says AI-based monitoring of social media may follow a predicta…
Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy
Abstract Existing approaches to cybersecurity emphasize either international state-to-state logics (such as deterrence theory) or the integrity of individual i…
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The Criminal Charges Julian Assange May Be Facing Might Not Be What You Think
"“Perhaps more likely at this stage are charges alleging a conspiracy to hack into computers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” Tom Rubin, a Stanford…
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Testimony to Australian Parliamentary Committee on Assistance & Access Bill
Today I testified telephonically before Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security regarding the proposed Assistance and Access…
Supplemental Comments to Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) on the Assistance & Access Bill 2018
Supplemental comments submitted to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) on the revised draft (20 September 2018 ve…
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Amazon's Accent Recognition Technology Could Tell the Government Where You're From
"If voice-based accent detection can determine a person’s ethnic background, it opens up a new category of information that is incredibly interesting to th…
Information Attacks on Democracies
Democracy is an information system. That's the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy throug…