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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Causing Terror on the Cheap
Total cost for the Yemeni printer cartridge bomb plot: $4200. "Two Nokia mobiles, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Studying Squid Hearing
At Woods Hole: It is known now, through the work of Mooney and others, that the squid hearing system has some similarities and some differences compared to human...
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Psychopaths and Security
I have been thinking a lot about security against psychopaths. Or, at least, how we have traditionally secured social systems against these sorts of people, and...
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The Withdrawal of the A5/2 Encryption Algorithm
Interesting story of the withdrawal of the A5/2 encryption algorithm from GSM phones.
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The DHS is Getting Rid of the Color-Coded Terrorism Alert System
Good. It was always a dumb idea: The color-coded threat levels were doomed to fail because "they don
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New ATM Skimming Attack
In Europe, although the article doesn't say where: Many banks have fitted ATMs with devices that are designed to thwart criminals from attaching skimmers to the...
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David Kahn Donates his Cryptography Collection to the National Cryptologic Museum
Good for him. I think that's where my collection will be going, too.
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Spoofing Geolocation
How to spoof your location on Facebook with your BlackBerry.
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Me on Airport Security
Yesterday I participated in a New York Times "Room for Debate" discussion on airline security. My contribution is nothing I haven't said before, so I won't reprint...
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Defeating al Qaeda
Rare common sense: But Gen Richards told the BBC it was not possible to defeat the Taliban or al-Qaeda militarily. "You can't. We've all said this. David Petraeus...
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Stuxnet News
Another piece of the puzzle: New research, published late last week, has established that Stuxnet searches for frequency converter drives made by Fararo Paya of...
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Me on Cyberwar
Last week, I gave a talk on cyberwar and cyberconflict at the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin. Here's the video. It was only the second...
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TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
Things are happening so fast that I don't know if I should bother. But here are some links and observations. The head of the Allied Pilots Association is telling...
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Airplane Terrorism Twenty Years Ago
Excellent: Here's a scenario: Middle Eastern terrorists hijack a U.S. jetliner bound for Italy. A two-week drama ensues in which the plane's occupants are split...
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Unsolicited Terrorism Tips to the U.S. Government
Adding them all up, the U.S. government "receives between 8,000 and 10,000 pieces of information per day, fingering just as many different people as potential threats...
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New Biometric
Eye movements instead of eye structures. The new system tracks the way a person's eye moves as he watches an icon roam around a computer screen. The way the icon...
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Term Paper Writing for Hire
This recent essay (commentary here) reminded me of this older essay, both by people who write student term papers for hire. There are several services that dopersonal...
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