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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
TSA Successfully Defends Itself
Story here. Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying...
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Computer Card Counter Detects Human Card Counters
All it takes is a computer that can track every card: The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "count" of the cards...
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Six Years of Patch Tuesdays
Nice article summing up six years of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays: The total number of flaws disclosed and patched by the software maker so far this year stands at...
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Helpful Hint for Fugitives: Don't Update Your Location on Facebook
"Fugitive caught after updating his status on Facebook." It's easy to say "so dumb," and it would be true, but what's interesting is how people just don't think...
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The Commercial Speech Arms Race
A few years ago, a company began to sell a liquid with identification codes suspended in it. The idea was that you would paint it on your stuff as proof of ownership...
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The Bizarre Consequences of "Zero Tolerance" Weapons Policies at Schools
Good article: Zachary's offense? [He's six years old.] Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently...
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The Doghouse: Privacy Inside
I'm just going to quote without comment: About the file: the text message file encrypted with a symmetric key combine 3 modes 1st changing the original text...
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David Dittrich on Criminal Malware
Good essay: "Malware to crimeware: How far have they gone, and how do we catch up?" ;login:, August 2009: I have survived over a decade of advances in delivery...
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Wi-fi Blocking Paint
I wrote about this in 2004. This is an improved product: While paints blocking lower frequencies have been available for some time, Mr Ohkoshi's technology is...
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Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems
Pretty clever (for a pig, that is).
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1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
Yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the U.S. needed to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years. Bob Cringly doubts that there...
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The Futility of Defending the Targets
This is just silly: Beaver Stadium is a terrorist target. It is most likely the No. 1 target in the region. As such, it deserves security measures commensurate...
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Detecting Forged Signatures Using Pen Pressure and Angle
Interesting: Songhua Xu presented an interesting idea for measuring pen angle and pressure to present beautiful flower-like visual versions of a handwritten signature...
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