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There’s currently a major backlash in the InfoSec community against so-called “smart” locks. And it’s not just by people who naturally overreact to change, or from people outside of InfoSec: there are plenty of smart people in our field—whom I respect greatly—that are making loud noises against this technology. So I want to make it absolutely clear that…

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The NSA is releasing a free reverse engineering tool this year at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. A lot of people are asking about the motive of the NSA releasing a free reverse engineering tool at RSA this year.Theories include: it’s a backdoor, it’s a tracking mechanism, etc.My opinion? Recruiting.It’s a PR move to attract talent…

Unsupervised Learning is my weekly show where I spend 5-20 hours finding the most interesting stories in security, technology, and humans, which I then curate into a 30-minute podcast & companion newsletter. The goal is to catch you up on current events, show you the best content from around the web, and hopefully give you something to think…

Short answer: it’s a trick question. Privacy is part of security. But just because one is part of the other doesn’t mean they are the same. There’s a nuance there that’s important. The word “security” is shorthand for “information security” or “cybersecurity” in this parlance. Information Security is about controlling access to information. Privacy is about making sure…

I’ve mentioned this in numerous places for the last few years, so I decided it was time to finally put it into a formal piece. It seems obvious at this point that China is building a massive database of information on American individuals and companies, which they can then use for various purposes—including espionage, intellectual property theft, extortion,…

I saw a tweet recently by Robert M. Lee—a highly respected ICS Security professional in the industry. When folks put “ICS” in the category of “IOT” it conflates the systems, purpose, value, and risks of separate communities. There’s important differences between a robot arm in a car manufacturing plant and your internet connected doll even if both have…

January always feels fresh to me—a chance to be better. But at the same time, it’s really just a day after the end of December. This is why I don’t do New Year Resolutions. Basically, if you wanted to do that thing bad enough, you would have done it already. But that’s for things that you can do…

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