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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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Mobile Malware Is Increasing
According to a report by Juniper, mobile malware is increasing dramatically. In 2011, we saw unprecedented growth of mobile malware attacks with a 155 percentstory...
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"1234" and Birthdays Are the Most Common PINs
Research paper: "A birthday present every eleven wallets? The security of customer-chosen banking PINs," by Joseph Bonneau, Sören Preibusch, and Ross Anderson:...
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Covert Communications Channel in Tarsiers
Marissa A. Ramsier, Andrew J. Cunningham, Gillian L. Moritz, James J. Finneran, Cathy V. Williams, Perry S. Ong, Sharon L. Gursky-Doyen, and Nathaniel J. Dominy...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Desk Lamp
Beautiful sculpture. 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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Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Animals
Self-domestication happens when the benefits of cooperation outweigh the costs: But why and how could natural selection tame the bonobo? One possible narrative...
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Cryptanalysis of Satellite Phone Encryption Algorithms
From the abstract of the paper: In this paper, we analyze the encryption systems used in the two existing (and competing) satphone standards, GMR-1 and GMR-2....
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Lousy Random Numbers Cause Insecure Public Keys
There's some excellent research (paper, news articles) surveying public keys in the wild. Basically, the researchers found that a small fraction of them (27,000...
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Dumb Risk of the Day
Geotagged images of children: Joanne Kuzma of the University of Worcester, England, has analyzed photos that clearly show children's faces on the photo sharing...
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The Sudafed Security Trade-Off
This writer wrestles with the costs and benefits of tighter controls on pseudoephedrine, a key chemical used to make methamphetamine: Now, personally, I sincerely...
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Trust Requires Transparency
Adam Shostack explains to Verisign that trust requires transparency. This is a lesson Path should have learned.
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Liars and Outliers Update
Liars and Outliers is available. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have ben shipping the book since the beginning of the month. Both the Kindle and the Nook versionsordered...
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What Happens When the Court Demands You Decrypt a Document and You Forget the Key?
Last month, a U.S. court demanded that a defendent surrender the encryption key to a laptop so the police could examine it. Now it seems that she's forgotten the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid's Beard
It's an acoustic bluegrass band. 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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Securing iPads for Exams
Interesting blog post about locking down an iPad so students can take exams on them.
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Security Implications of "Lower-Risk Aircraft"
Interesting paper: Paul J. Freitas (2012), "Passenger aviation security, risk management, and simple physics," Journal of Transportation Security. Abstract: Since...
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