Crypto-Gram 15 February 2016
From Crypto-Gram Security Podcast · hosted by Bruce Schneier (read by Dan Henage)
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Summary
In this issue: The Internet of Things Will Be the World’s Biggest Robot; Integrity and Availability Threats; Security vs. Surveillance; Paper on the Going Dark Debate; The 2016 National Threat Assessment; AT&T Does Not Care about Your Privacy; “Data and Goliath” Published in Paperback; NSA’s TAO Head on Internet Offense and Defense; Worldwide Encryption Products Survey.
Learning Points (Q&A)
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is comprised of sensors and actuators. Match each term with its definition.
- a) collect data about us and our environment
- b) use the collected data to affect our environment
- ___ Sensors
- ___ Actuators
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With the IoT, threats to integrity and availability are much more visceral and devastating than threats to confidentiality. Select the examples below of threats to integrity and availability. (Select all that apply)
- a) Eavesdropping on communications to find out where the car is going
- b) Feeding the car false information causing it to crash
- c) Disabling the car so it cannot start
- d) None of the above
Select all that apply.
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In 2014–15, unnamed hackers, probably the Chinese government, stole 21.5 million personal files of US government employees and others. They wouldn’t have obtained this data if it had been ________.
Fill in the blank.
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Metadata (i.e. call logs, email headers) must be unencrypted in order to be processed.
True or False.
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According to the 2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, the number one threat to the US is ___________, followed by China, Iran, North Korea, and non-state actors.
Fill in the blank.
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