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Using a standard test from ICSI’s Meeting Recorder Project, Friedland pushed Trint by feeding it a conversation recorded with an iPhone containing “overlap, laughter, emotions, and other things that occur in a meeting.” Then he observed how accurately Trint maps the fragments of everyday human speech, if not all of the nuances. “Overall, I think it has a state-of-the-art performance with a nice interface,” he says.

One big problem in security design “is that security isn’t usually the primary task: people don’t sit down at the computer to ‘do security,’” Serge Egelman, director of usable security and privacy research at the University of California, Berkeley-affiliated International Computer Science Institute, told Bloomberg BNA.

Our guest interview is with Nick Weaver, of Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. It covers the latest dumps of hacker tools, the vulnerability equities process, the so-bad-you-want-to-cover-your-eyes story of Juniper and the Dual_EC hacks, and ends with a tour of recent computer security disasters, from the capture of a bank’s entire online presence, to the pwning of Dallas’s emergency sirens, and a successful campaign to compromise the outsourcing firms that supply IT to small and medium sized businesses.

UC Berkeley researcher Nicholas Weaver told the Washington Post that this could be the most “technically damaging” document drop since Vault7 was launched, “as it seems designed to directly disrupt ongoing CIA operations and attribute previous operations”.