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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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Mark Twain on Risk Analysis
From 1871: I hunted up statistics, and was amazed to find that after all the glaring newspaper headings concerning railroad disasters, less than three hundred...
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Another Debit Card Skimmer
This one is installed inside gas pumps. There's nothing the customer can detect.
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Cyber Shockwave Test
There was a big U.S. cyberattack exercise this week. We didn't do a This is, I think, an eyewitness report.
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Al-Mabhouh Assassination
It reads like a very professional operation: Security footage of the killers' movements during the afternoon, released by police in Dubai yesterday, underlines...
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Opening Locks with Foil Impressioning
Interesting blog post, with video demonstration, about an improved tool to open high security locks with a key that will just "form itself" if you insert it into...
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Bruce Schneier Facebook Page
I finally have control of my Facebook page. There'll be nothing on it that isn't on my blog, but some of you might prefer following my writing from there. (ITwitter...
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Botnets Attacking Each Other
A new Trojan Horse named Spy Eye has code that kills Zeus, a rival botnet.
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Detecting Cheating by Analyzing Erased Answers
I had no idea this was being done, but erased answers are now analyzed on standardized tests. Schools with a high number of wrong-to-right changes across multiple...
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James Fallows on the Chinese Cyber Threat
Interesting. I wrote this about Chinese cyberattacks in 2008.
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Radio Interview
I was interviewed on the New Horizons radio show in Boise.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Record
I don't know which is more exciting: that someone is trying to break the squid record, or that there is a squid record in the first place. An Auckland scientist...
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Homebrew Cryptography
Nice article about a would-be spy and his homebrew pencil-and-paper cryptography.
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Car-Key Copier
This< is neat: The Impressioner consists of a sensor that goes into the lock and sends information back to a computer via USB about the location of the lock's...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against Chip and PIN
Nice attack against the EMV -- Eurocard Mastercard Visa -- the "chip and PIN" credit card payment system. The attack allows a criminal to use a stolen card without...
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Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer
Really interesting reading. Scam-Detective: How did you find victims for your scams? John: First you need to understand how the gangs work. At the bottom are...
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Terrorists Prohibited from Using iTunes
The iTunes Store Terms and Conditions prohibits it: Notice, as I read this clause not only are terrorists -- or at least those on terrorist watch lists -- prohibited...
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