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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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Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities
Last month, researchers found a security flaw in the SSL protocol, which is used to protect sensitive web data. The protocol is used for online commerce, webmail...
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TSA Publishes Standard Operating Procedures
BoingBoing is pretty snarky: The TSA has published a "redacted" version of their s00per s33kr1t screening procedure guidelines (Want to know whether to frisk a...
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My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
Schmidt said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really...
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Emotional Epidemiology
This, from The New England Journal of Medicine, sounds familiar: This is the story line for most headline-grabbing illnesses
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Using Fake Documents to Get a Valid U.S. Passport
I missed this story: Since 2007, the U.S. State Department has been issuing high-tech "e-passports," which contain computer chips carrying biometric data to prevent...
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Terrorists Targeting High-Profile Events
In an AP story on increased security at major football (the American variety) events, this sentence struck me: "High-profile events are something that terrorist...
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Sprint Provides U.S. Law Enforcement with Cell Phone Customer Location Data
Wired summarizes research by Christopher Soghoian: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between...
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The Security Implications of Windows Volume Shadow Copy
It can be impossible to securely delete a file: What are the security implications of Volume Shadow Copy? Suppose you decide to protect one of your documents...
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Fingerprinting RFID Chips
This research centers on looking at the radio characteristics of individual RFID chips and creating a "fingerprint." It makes sense; fingerprinting individual...
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Cyberwarfare Policy
National Journal has an excellent article on cyberwar policy. I agree with the author's comments on The Atlantic blog: Would the United States ever use a morereport...
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The Psychology of Being Scammed
This is a very interesting paper: "The Real Hustle, which does hidden camera demonstrations of con games. (There's no DVD of the show available, but there areprevious...
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Fear and Public Perception
This 1996 interview with psychiatrist Robert DuPont was part of a Frontline program called "Nuclear Reaction." He's talking about the role fear plays in the perception...
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Leaked 9/11 Text Messages
Wikileaks has published pager intercepts from New York on 9/11: WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24nuggets...
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Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Long, detailed, and very good story of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of last year. My own short commentary in the aftermath of the attacks.
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Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds
If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game...
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Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on securityme...
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Norbt
Norbt (no robot) is a low-security web application to encrypt web pages. You can create and encrypt a webpage. The key is an answer to a question; anyone who...
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