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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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Stealing ATM PINs with a Thermal Camera
It's easy: Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal ATM PIN pads to test how effective they were at stealing PIN numbers...
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Smartphone Keystroke Logging Using the Motion Sensor
Clever: "When the user types on the soft keyboard on her smartphone (especially when she holds her phone by hand rather than placing it on a fixed surface), the...
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Security for Implanted Medical Devices
Worried about someone hacking your implanted medical devices? Here's a signal-jamming device you can wear.
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Cheating at Casinos with Hidden Cameras
Sleeve cameras aren't new, but they're now smaller than ever and the cheaters are getting more sophisticated: In January, at the newly opened $4-billion Cosmopolitan...
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Movie-Plot Threat: Open Airplane Cockpit Doors During Bathroom Breaks
James Fallows has a nice debunking of a movie-plot threat.
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How Microsoft Develops Security Patches
I thought this was an interesting read.
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Pseudonymity
Long essay on the value of pseudonymity. From the conclusions: Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren't ways to hide who yoube...
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Looking Backward at Terrorism
Nice essay on the danger of too much security: The great lie of the war on terror is not that we can sacrifice a little liberty for greater security. It is that...
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The Dilemma of Counterterrorism Policy
Any institution delegated with the task of preventing terrorism has a dilemma: they can either do their best to prevent terrorism, or they can do their best toA...
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Steven Pinker on Terrorism
It's almost time for a deluge of "Ten Years After 9/11" essays. Here's Steven Pinker: The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths...
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New Attack on AES
"Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES," by Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Christian Rechberger. Abstract. Since Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced...
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Alarm Geese
A prison in Brazil uses geese as part of its alarm system. There's a long tradition of this. Circa 400 BC, alarm geese alerted a Roman citadel to a Gaul attack...
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Security by Default
Nice essay by Christopher Soghoian on why cell phone and Internet providers need to enable security options by default.
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Search Redirection and the Illicit Online Prescription Drug Trade
Really interesting research. Search-redirection attacks combine several well-worn tactics from black-hat SEO and web security. First, an attacker identifies high...
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New, Undeletable, Web Cookie
A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s mostfinally...
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Interview with Me
Here's an interview with me from the Homeland Security News Wire.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Painted on Canal Narrowboat
Pretty. 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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Liars and Outliers Cover
My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the...
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