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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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Interview with a Safecracker
The legal kind. It's interesting: Q: How realistic are movies that show people breaking into vaults? A: Not very! In the movies it takes five minutes of razzle...
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My Last Post About Ethnic Profiling at Airports
Remember my rebuttal of Sam Harris's essay advocating the profiling of Muslims at airports? That wasn't the end of it. Harris and I conducted a back-and-forth...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink from the Jurassic
Seems that squid ink hasn't changed much in 160 million years. From this, researchers argue that the security mechanism of spraying ink into the water and escaping...
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The Explosive from the Latest Foiled Al Qaeda Underwear Bomb Plot
Interesting: Although the plot was disrupted before a particular airline was targeted and tickets were purchased, al Qaeda's continued attempts to attack the U...
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The Ubiquity of Cyber-Fears
A new study concludes that more people are worried about cyber threats than terrorism. ...the three highest priorities for Americans when it comes to security...
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The Banality of Surveillance Photos
Interesting essay on a trove on surveillance photos from Cold War-era Prague. Cops, even secret cops, are for the most part ordinary people. Working stiffs concerned...
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Lessons in Trust from Web Hoaxes
Interesting discussion of trust in this article on web hoaxes. Kelly's students, like all good con artists, built their stories out of small, compelling details...
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Privacy Concerns Around "Social Reading"
Interesting paper: "The Perils of Social Reading," by Neil M. Richards, from the Georgetown Law Journal. Abstract: Our law currently treats records of our reading...
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Racism as a Vestigal Remnant of a Security Mechanism
"Roots of Racism," by Elizabeth Culotta in Science: Our attitudes toward outgroups are part of a threat-detection system that allows us to rapidly determine friend...
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Security Incentives and Advertising Fraud
Details are in the article, but here's the general idea: Let's follow the flow of the users: Scammer buys user traffic from PornoXo.com and sends it to HQTubeVideos...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scalp Massager
Cheap! 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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Kip Hawley Reviews Liars and Outliers
In his blog: I think the most important security issues going forward center around identity and trust. Before knowing I would soon encounter Bruce again in the...
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Cybersecurity at the Doctor's Office
I like this essay because it nicely illustrates the security mindset.
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Rules for Radicals
It was written in 1971, but this still seems like a cool book: For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your...
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USB Drives and Wax Seals
Need some pre-industrial security for your USB drive? How about a wax seal? Neat, but I recommend combining it with encryption for even more security!
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Security Vulnerabilities in Airport Full-Body Scanners
According to a report from the DHS Office of Inspector General: Federal investigators "identified vulnerabilities in the screening process" at domestic airports...
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U.S. Exports Terrorism Fears
To New Zealand: United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has warned the New Zealand Government about the latest terrorist threat known as...
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The Trouble with Airport Profiling
Why do otherwise rational people think it's a good idea to profile people at airports? Recently, neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris related a story...
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