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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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On Securing Potentially Dangerous Virology Research
Abstract: The problem of securing biological research data is a difficult and complicated one. Our ability to secure data on computers is not robust enough toScience...
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Nuclear Fears
Interesting review -- by David Roepik -- of The Rise of Nuclear Fear, by Spencer Weart: Along with contributing to the birth of the environmental movement, Weart...
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Top Secret America on the Post-9/11 Cycle of Fear and Funding
I'm reading Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Both work for The Washington Post. The book...
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Russian Nuclear Launch Code Backup Procedure
If the safe doesn't open, use a sledgehammer: The sledgehammer's existence first came to light in 1980, when a group of inspecting officers from the General Staff...
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E-Mail Accounts More Valuable than Bank Accounts
This informal survey produced the following result: "45% of the users found their email accounts more valuable than their bank accounts." The author believes this...
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Resilience
There was a conference on resilience (highlights here, and complete videos here) earlier this year. Here's an interview with professor Sander van der Leeuw on...
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Op-ed Explaining why Terrorism Doesn't Work
Good essay by Max Abrams. I've written about his research before.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mutant Squid at the Queen's Jubilee
I think this is a parody, but you can never be sure. Millions of Britons turned out for the Queen
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Economic Analysis of Bank Robberies
Yes, it's clever: The basic problem is the average haul from a bank job: for the three-year period, it was only
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Far-Fetched Scams Separate the Gullible from Everyone Else
Interesting conclusion by Cormac Herley, in this paper: "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?" Abstract: False positives cause many promising detection...
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Apple Patents Data-Poisoning
It's not a new idea, but Apple Computer has received a patent on "Techniques to pollute electronic profiling": Abstract: Techniques to pollute electronic profiling...
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Switzerland National Defense
Interesting blog post about this book about Switzerland's national defense. To make a long story short, McPhee describes two things: how Switzerland requires military...
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Attack Against Point-of-Sale Terminal
Clever attack: When you pay a restaurant bill at your table using a point-of-sale machine, are you sure it's legit? In the past three months, Toronto and Peel...
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The Failure of Anti-Virus Companies to Catch Military Malware
Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure attempts to explain why anti-virus companies didn't catch Stuxnet, DuQu, and Flame: When we went digging through our archive for related...
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England's Prince Phillip on Security
On banning guns: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very...
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Honor System Farm Stands
Many roadside farm stands in the U.S. are unmanned. They work on the honor system: take what you want, and pay what you owe. And today at his farm stand, Cochran...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Woman's Mouth Inseminated by Cooked Squid
This story is so freaky I'm not even sure I want to post it. But if I don't, you'll all send me the links. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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