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[drone-list] Apple rejects Drones+ iPhone app
by Eugen Leitl 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

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by Eugen Leitl 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

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Cryptic Seduction
by Alexander Huemer 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

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Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak
by Eugen Leitl 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/13/trapwire-surveillance-system-ex… Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy system in two cities Charles Arthur, technology editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 August 2012 19.04 BST CCTV Trapwire uses data from CCTV networks to figure out the threat level. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or criminal act. But Trapwire is real and, according to documents released online by WikiLeaks last week, is being used in a number of countries to try to monitor people and threats. Founded by former CIA agents, Trapwire uses data from a network of CCTV systems and numberplate readers to figure out the threat level in huge numbers of locations. That means security officials can "focus on the highest priorities first, taking a proactive and collaborative approach to defence against attacks," say its creators. The documents outlining Trapwire's existence and its deployment in the US were apparently obtained in a hack of computer systems belonging to the intelligence company Stratfor at the end of last year. Documents from the US department of homeland security show that it paid $832,000 to deploy Trapwire in Washington DC and Seattle. Stratfor describes Trapwire as "a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance and logistical planning", and cites the Washington DC police chief mentioning it during a Senate committee hearing. It serves "a wide range of law enforcement personnel and public and private security officials domestically and internationally", Stratfor says. Some have expressed doubts that Trapwire could really forecast terrorist acts based on data from cameras, but Rik Ferguson, security consultant at Trend Micro, said the software for such systems had existed for some time. "There's a lot of crossover between CCTV and facial recognition," he said. "It's feasible to have a camera looking for suspicious behaviour b for example, in a computer server room it could recognise someone via facial recognition or your gait, then can identify them from the card they swipe to get in, and then know whether it's suspicious if they're meant to be a cleaner and they sit down at a computer terminal." The claims might seem overblown, but then the idea that the US could have an international monitoring system seemed absurd until the discovery of the Echelon system, used by the US to eavesdrop on electronic communications internationally. Trapwire has not yet commented on the leak.

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Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PIN Numbers, Other Personal Data
by Eugen Leitl 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/brainwave-hacking/?utm_source=twit… Threat Level Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PIN Numbers, Other Personal Data By Geeta Dayal 08.29.12 7:58 PM The b developer editionb of the Emotiv Epoc headset b if you think you can handle it. Photo: drbakker/Flickr Donbt you dare even think about your banking account password when you slap on those fancy new brainwave headsets. Or at least that seems to be the lesson of a new study which found that sensitive personal information, such as PIN numbers and credit card data, can be gleaned from the brainwave data of users wearing popular consumer-grade EEG headsets. A team of security researchers from Oxford, UC Berkeley, and the University of Geneva say that they were able to deduce digits of PIN numbers, birth months, areas of residence and other personal information by presenting 30 headset-wearing subjects with images of ATM machines, debit cards, maps, people, and random numbers in a series of experiments. The paper, titled b On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain Computer Interfaces,b represents the first major attempt to uncover potential security risks in the use of the headsets. b The correct answer was found by the first guess in 20% of the cases for the experiment with the PIN, the debit cards, people, and the ATM machine,b write the researchers. b The location was exactly guessed for 30% of users, month of birth for almost 60% and the bank based on the ATM machines for almost 30%.b To detect the first digit of the PIN, researchers presented the subjects with numbers from 0 to 9, flashing on the screen in random order, one by one. Each number was repeated 16 times, over a total duration of 90 seconds. The subjectsb brainwaves were monitored for telltale peaks that would rat them out. The EEG headsets, made by companies such as Emotiv Systems and NeuroSky, have become increasingly popular for gaming and other applications. For the study, the researchers used the Emotiv Epoc Neuroheadset, which retails for $299. The researchers b Ivan Martinovic of Oxford University; Doug Davies, Mario Frank, Daniele Perito, and Dawn Song of UC Berkeley; and Tomas Ros of the University of Geneva b analyzed P300 peaks, an important component of event-related potentials b electrical potentials that happen after the user is presented with a stimulus. The P300 b occurs approximately 300 milliseconds after an event happens,b said Frank, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley, in a phone interview with Wired. b The potential arises if you already prime your thoughts toward a particular eventb&. An attacker could try to prime the thoughts of the victim towards a particular secret that a victim has in mind. For instance, if you know the face of some person, you might be able to observe a brainwave pattern that is evidence of the user thinking about the face.b b Brain Spywareb Emotiv and NeuroSky both have b app stores,b where users of the devices can download third-party applications. The applications use a common API for access to the EEG device. b In the case of the EEG devices, this API provides unrestricted access to the raw EEG signal,b write the researchers. b Furthermore, such applications have complete control over the stimuli that can be presented to the users.b The researchers envision a scenario in which a potential malicious attacker could write b brain spywareb to harvest private information from the user, which could be legitimately downloaded as an app. b We simulated a scenario where someone writes a malicious app, the user downloads it and trusts the app, and actively supports all the calibration steps of the device to make the software work,b said Frank. In these seemingly innocuous calibration steps, which are standard for most games and other applications using the headsets, there could be the potential to harvest personal information. b We realized that these devices are becoming increasingly popular b maybe in five, 10 years, itbs very likely that many households will have one,b Frank said. b At the same time, you can use all kinds of third-party apps for these devices. In this setting, as security researchers, we identified that there is a potential to make some bad stuff, to turn this technology against the user.b He said, however, that there was no immediate threat in using the devices. But the experiments devised by the researchers point to the devicesb darker potential. b The simplicity of our experiments suggests the possibility of more sophisticated attacks,b write the researchers, warning that b with the ever-increasing quality of devices, success rate of attacks will likely improve.b Geeta Dayal Geeta Dayal is a staff writer at Wired, based in San Francisco. She is the author of Another Green World, a recent book on Brian Eno.

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Re: [ZS] Fwd: Announcement: Diaspora* Will Now Be A Community Project
by Eugen Leitl 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

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Secrecy News -- 08/27/12
by Eugen Leitl 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

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