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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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Counterfeit Pilot IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security
This seems like a really bad idea: ...the Transportation Security Administration began a program Tuesday allowing pilots to skirt the security-screening process...
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Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
"Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can
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GPRS Hacked
Just announced: Nohl's group found a number of problems with GPRS. First, he says, lax authentication rules could allow an attacker to set up a fake cellular base...
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"Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks"
I'm a big fan of taxonomies, and this -- from Carnegie Mellon -- seems like a useful one: The taxonomy of operational cyber security risks, summarized in Table...
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Free-Riding on Plant Security Countermeasures
There's a security story from biology I've used a few times: plants that use chemicals to call in airstrikes by wasps on the herbivores attacking them. This is...
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MRI Lie Detectors
An article from Salon -- lots of interesting research. My previous blog post on the topic.
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Business Week on The Cyberwar Arms Race
I've been using the phrase "arms race" to describe the world's militaries' rush into cyberspace for a couple of years now. Here's a good article on the topic that...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Severed Hand is Actually A Dried Squid
I just can't make this stuff up: A report of a severed hand found at an Oahu seabird sanctuary has turned out to be dried squid. Remember: if you see something...
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Zodiac Cipher Cracked
I admit I don't pay much attention to pencil-and-paper ciphers, so I knew nothing about the Zodiac cipher. Seems it has finally been broken: The Zodiac Killer...
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German Police Call Airport Full-Body Scanners Useless
I'm not surprised: The weekly Welt am Sonntag, quoting a police report, said 35 percent of the 730,000 passengers checked by the scanners set off the alarm more...
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Hacking Lotteries
Two items on hacking lotteries. The first is about someone who figured out how to spot winner in a scratch-of tic-tac-toe style game, and a daily draw style game...
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New Information on the Inventor of the One-Time Pad
Seems that the one-time pad was not first invented by Vernam: He could plainly see that the document described a technique called the one-time pad fully 35 years...
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Identifying People by their Writing Style
The article is in the context of the big Facebook lawsuit, but the part about identifying people by their writing style is interesting: Recently, a team of computer...
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Developments in Facial Recognition
Eventually, it will work. You'll be able to wear a camera that will automatically recognize someone walking towards you, and a microphone that will automatically...
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Attacking PLCs Controlling Prison Doors
Embedded system vulnerabilities in prisons: Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran...
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Breaking the Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA Bitstream Encryption
It's a power-analysis attack, which makes it much harder to defend against. And since the attack model is an engineer trying to reverse-engineer the chip, it's...
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