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163 The NSA’s system administrators were, as the threat officer pointed out, very different from the traditional military employees at the NSA. They were usually civilians, who effectively served as repair-men for complex computer systems at the NSA. Moreover, many of them had n...

Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is the coauthor (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Jaan Tallin, a computer programmer, theoretical physicist, and investor, 1s a co- deve...

…efore important presentations — it does not appear to enjoy listening to Bach, nor does it ever ask me to put it near the window to admire the view. I think this means it’s not intelligent, but what is ‘intelligence’? Intelligence is hard to define; I usually conclude someone...

…d. Made weird. Hacking is, after all, a kind of perverse programming. It involves slipping inside a target machine, and then driving it to do things it wasn’t intended to do, by giving it instructions its designers never knew it might receive.13¢ The process of developing and usi...

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Contractor | 29 growing antagonism toward the U.S. government, he had not given up on, if not becoming a secret agent, working in the netherworld of secret intelligence. There was still a back door through which he could reenter the spy world. Private corporations hired civilia...

The NSA‘s Back Door | 215 documents he stole, he selected lists of the NSA’s secret sources in adversary nations. The Snowden breach was a failure that directly traced back to the NSA’s largest and most trusted contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, calling into question the vexing i...

desperation in men like Trichet. I’m pretty sure we'll see versions of this same sort of crisis in many other areas. More complexity produces more interaction, as you would expect. More pieces of a system rushing and touching and changing each other in a perpetual and accelerati...

only until it runs out of fuel. Similarly, the exponential advances in Moore’s Law are starting to run into limits imposed by basic physics. The clock speed of computers maxed out at a few gigahertz a decade and a half ago, simply because the chips were starting to melt. The mini...

doing because we designed the algorithms at their heart. So when our computers generate a result, we feel that we intellectually grasp it. The new machine-learning programs are different. Having recognized patterns via deep neural networks, they come up with conclusions, and we...

… | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tion software and a link to a twelve-minute video on encryption (which might have been the same video he used at his CryptoParty a few weeks earlier). Greenwald did not manage to encrypt his computer, however, and Snowden, unwilling to deal with...

…ncluding Executive Vice President and head of Strategic Planning and Acquisitions, Executive Vice President and head of the company’s South Central Community Banking operations, and President and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining Norwest, he was Executive Vice President and...

learning system can be trained to follow strategies that produce those outcomes. Wiener hinted at this idea in the 1950s, but the intervening decades have developed it into a fine art. Modern machine-learning systems can find extremely effective strategies for playing computer ga...

learning system can be trained to follow strategies that produce those outcomes. Wiener hinted at this idea in the 1950s, but the intervening decades have developed it into a fine art. Modern machine-learning systems can find extremely effective strategies for playing computer ga...

usually talk about “tactical”, “operational” and “strategic” levels as we watch the gears of history churning away in war and peace. The “tactical” level is the most practical. It’s the choice to use machine guns instead of tanks to secure a street in Kabul, for instance, or to b...