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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 …
From Schneier on Security
The Cyberwar Arms Race
Good paper: "Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy," by Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins. Over the past two years there has...
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Social Solidarity as an Effect of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
It's standard sociological theory that a group experiences social solidarity in response to external conflict. This paper studies the phenomenon in the Unitednew...
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Security Risks of Running an Open WiFi Network
As I've written before, I run an open WiFi network. It's stories like these that may make me rethink that. The three stories all fall along the same theme: a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fabric Designs
Some of these are actually nice.
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Hard-Drive Steganography through Fragmentation
Clever: Khan and his colleagues have written software that ensures clusters of a file, rather than being positioned at the whim of the disc drive controller chip...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Prints
Okay, this is a little weird: This year's Earth Day will again include the celebrated "squid printing" activity with two big, beautiful Pacific Humboldt squidagain...
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Declassified World War I Security Documents
The CIA has just declassified six (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) documents about World War I security techniques. (The media is reporting they're CIA documents, but the...
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Large-Scale Food Theft
A criminal gang is stealing truckloads of food: Late last month, a gang of thieves stole six tractor-trailer loads of tomatoes and a truck full of cucumbers from...
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Costs of Security
Interesting blog post on the security costs for the $50B Air Force bomber program -- estimated to be $8B. This isn't all computer security, but the original article...
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Software as Evidence
Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It's not just the RIAA suing people -- and getting it wrong -- based on automatic systems to detect and...
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WikiLeaks Cable about Chinese Hacking of U.S. Networks
We know it's prevalent, but there's some new information: Secret U.S. State Department cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to Reuters by a third party...
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"Schneier's Law"
Back in 1998, I wrote: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. In 2004, Cory Doctorow...
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Unanticipated Security Risk of Keeping Your Money in a Home Safe
In Japan, lots of people -- especially older people -- keep their life savings in cash in their homes. (The country's banks pay very low interest rates, so the...
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Changing Incentives Creates Security Risks
One of the things I am writing about in my new book is how security equilibriums change. They often change because of technology, but they sometimes change because...
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Security Fears of Wi-Fi in London Underground
The London Underground is getting Wi-Fi. Of course there are security fears: But Will Geddes, founder of ICP Group which specialises in reducing terror or technology...
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Euro Coin Recycling Scam
This story is just plain weird. Regularly, damaged coins are taken out of circulation. They're destroyed and then sold to scrap metal dealers. That makes sense...
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Israel's Counter-Cyberterrorism Unit
You'd think the country would already have one of these: Israel is mulling the creation of a counter-cyberterrorism unit designed to safeguard both government...
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How did the CIA and FBI Know that Australian Government Computers were Hacked?
Newspapers are reporting that, for about a month, hackers had access to computers "of at least 10 federal ministers including the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister...
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