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Hillary Clinton's Email Server: Dissecting the Risks with William J. Tucker

Hillary Clinton's Email Server: Dissecting the Risks with William J. Tucker

William J. Tucker joins me again to discuss Hillary Clinton’s decision to manage her own email services while Secretary of State. While this decision has angered political opponents and government transparency advocates (not to mention a few historians) we are bypassing the political and legal issues to zero in

Robots and the Future of Warfare

Robots and the Future of Warfare

In episode 6 of the Covert Contact podcast I am looking at the evolution of unmanned platforms and speculate about the impact that they could have on warfare. The technology is evolving faster than our appreciation for the complications it will bring so while there will be countless positive benefits

Crypto Wars: Winners, Losers, and the Case for Compromise

Crypto Wars: Winners, Losers, and the Case for Compromise

In episode 3 of the Covert Contact podcast [https://blogsofwar.com/tag/podcast/] I’m focusing on a single critical topic – the struggle between privacy advocates and governments overcryptography [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography]. This is a sensitive topic and there are a lot of extreme positions on the

Terrorism, Trolls, Tech - and Our Struggle to Understand

Terrorism, Trolls, Tech - and Our Struggle to Understand

ISIS stormed through Twitter just a few weeks ago and now many of them are paying the ultimate price for their trolling. I’ll explain why terrorism, social media, and apps aren’t the potent mix that many people fear they are and tell you who really stands to gain from these tools.

DIA Director Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn Shares His Thoughts on Threats, Opportunities, and 33 Years of Service

DIA Director Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn Shares His Thoughts on Threats, Opportunities, and 33 Years of Service

Update This interview occurred in 2014 before Lt. Gen. Flynn assumed a much more political and public profile. It occurred before he was caught dining with Vladimir Putin [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696] to celebrate the founding of a Russian propaganda outfit built to undermine the West. It

Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" Cinnamon: Slick, Stable, and Definitely Worth the Upgrade

Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" Cinnamon: Slick, Stable, and Definitely Worth the Upgrade

Linux Mint 16 was solid but this release, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, is by far the best product the team has ever produced. My previous install, the KDE version, had lingering issues with proprietary drivers which didn’t really impact my workflow but also wouldn’t

On Edward Snowden's Importance

On Edward Snowden's Importance

Nextgov has a rundown of Sonia Brindi’s (Globo) interview with Edward Snowden [http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/06/edward-snowden-i-had-more-access-almost-any-other-official-intelligence-community/85744/] . His narcissism is, once again, on full display: > The public’s bewilderment is misplaced, Snowden replied. “There’s sort of been a misinformation occurring in the U.

‪Exclusive: The Elaborate Hack that Will Prevent the CIA/NSA from Monitoring Your Communications‬

‪Exclusive: The Elaborate Hack that Will Prevent the CIA/NSA from Monitoring Your Communications‬

Look, we all know that the NSA is interested in you. You tweet really edgy stuff like “Obummer sucks!!” and “Fight NSA Spying!“ You were also totally all over that UN internment camp they’re setting up in Alabama depsite the lamestream media’s best attempts to cover the whole

DARPA's "Hack-Proof" Drone

DARPA's "Hack-Proof" Drone

First, “Hack-Proof” is an aspiration not a destination. It’s a term that is thrown about very casually and at great risk, especially when the media is involved. I am more comfortable operating under the assumption that all systems have attack vectors. Some are just more secure than others. That

Hacker OPSEC with The Grugq

Hacker OPSEC with The Grugq

The Grugq is a world renowned [http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shopping-for-zero-days-an-price-list-for-hackers-secret-software-exploits/] information security researcher with 15 years of industry experience. Grugq started his career at a Fortune 100 company, before transitioning to @stake, where he was forced to resign for publishing a Phrack article on

Crikey: How the FBI Hacked users of Tor – with a Blogs of War mention

Crikey: How the FBI Hacked users of Tor – with a Blogs of War mention

I wrote a short piece, Tor and the Illusion of Anonymity, that got a lot more attention than I expected it to – including being referenced in a federal case on the subject.

Hating On the Cloud - From My New Acer Chromebook

Hating On the Cloud - From My New Acer Chromebook

Some of you have interpreted my comments about cloud security, or rather the lack of absolute cloud security, as outright cloudhate so the fact that I picked up a shiny new Chromebook yesterday might come as a surprise. Why would I want to work on a platform where every keystroke

Tor and the Illusion of Anonymity

Tor and the Illusion of Anonymity

So the story as it stands now seems to be that a certain Eric Eoin Marques [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384773/Eric-Eoin-Marques-largest-child-porn-dealer-planet-extradited-FBI.html] is being accused of being the largest distributor of child pornography on the planet. Unfortunately (and allegedly), Mr. Marques leveraged Tor anonymity services [https://www.