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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Al Qaeda Steganography
The reports are still early, but it seems that a bunch of terrorist planning documents were found embedded in a digital file of a porn movie. Several weeks later...
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Cybercrime as a Tragedy of the Commons
Two very interesting points in this essay on cybercrime. The first is that cybercrime isn't as big a problem as conventional wisdom makes it out to be. We have...
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When Investigation Fails to Prevent Terrorism
I've long advocated investigation, intelligence, and emergency response as the places where we can most usefully spend our counterterrorism dollars. Here's anthat...
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JCS Chairman Sows Cyberwar Fears
Army General Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: A cyber attack could stop our society in its tracks. Gadzooks. A scared populace...
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Vote for Liars and Outliers
Actionable Books is having a vote to determine which of four books to summarize on their site. If you are willing, please go there and vote for Liars and Outliers...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Chesapeake Bay Squid
Great pictures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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Attack Mitigation
At the RSA Conference this year, I noticed a trend of companies that have products and services designed to help victims recover from attacks. Kelly Jackson Higgins...
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Biometric Passports Make it Harder for Undercover CIA Officers
Last year, I wrote about how social media sites are making it harder than ever for undercover police officers. This story talks about how biometric passports are...
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Fear and the Attention Economy
danah boyd is thinking about -- in a draft essay, and as a recording of a presentation -- fear and the attention economy. Basically, she is making the argument...
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Amazing Round of "Split or Steal"
In Liars and Outliers, I use the metaphor of the Prisoner's Dilemma to exemplify the conflict between group interest and self-interest. There are a gazillion academic...
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Alan Turing Cryptanalysis Papers
GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters, has released two new -- well, 70 years old, but new to us -- cryptanalysis documents by Alan Turing. The...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Extracting Squid Ink
How to extract squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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Liars & Outliers Update
Liars & Outliers has been available for about two months, and is selling well both in hardcover and e-book formats. More importantly, I'm very pleased with the...
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TSA Behavioral Detection Statistics
Interesting data from the U.S. Government Accounting Office: But congressional auditors have questions about other efficiencies as well, like having 3,000 "behavior...
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Dance Moves As an Identifier
A burglar was identified by his dance moves, captured on security cameras: "The 16-year-old juvenile suspect is known for his 'swag,' or signature dance move,"...
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Smart Meter Hacks
Brian Krebs writes about smart meter hacks: But it appears that some of these meters are smarter than others in their ability to deter hackers and block unauthorized...
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Password Security at Linode
Here's something good: We have implemented sophisticated brute force protection for Linode Manager user accounts that combines a time delay on failed attempts,...
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Stolen Phone Database
This article talks about a database of stolen cell phone IDs that will be used to deny service. While I think this is a good idea, I don't know how much it would...
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Forever-Day Bugs
That's a nice turn of phrase: Forever day is a play on "zero day," a phrase used to classify vulnerabilities that come under attack before the responsible manufacturer...
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