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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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Detecting People Who Want to Do Harm
I'm dubious: At a demonstration of the technology this week, project manager Robert P. Burns said the idea is to track a set of involuntary physiological reactions...
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Computer-Assisted Witness Identification
Witnesses are much more accurate at identifying criminals when computers assist in the identification process, not police officers. A major cause of miscarriages...
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Don't Let Hacker Inmates Reprogram Prison Computers
You'd think this would be obvious: Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to
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Malware that Forges Bank Statements
This is brilliant: The sophisticated hack uses a Trojan horse program installed on the victim's machine that alters html coding before it's displayed in the user's...
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UK Defense Security Manual Leaked
Wow. It's over 2,000 pages, so it'll take time to make any sense of. According to Ross Anderson, who's given it a quick look over, "it seems to be the bureaucratic...
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Moving Hippos in the Post-9/11 World
It's a security risk: The crate was hoisted onto the flatbed with a 120-ton construction crane. For security reasons, there were no signs on the truck indicating...
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Actual DHS Travel Record
If you were curious what the DHS knows about you.
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"Security Theater in New York City"
For the U.N. General Assembly: For those entranced by security theater, New York City is a sight to behold this week. A visit to one of the two centers of the...
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Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
This is interesting: Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal...
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Nice Use of Diversion During a Robbery
During a daring bank robbery in Sweden that involved a helicopter, the criminals disabled a police helicopter by placing a package with the word "bomb" near the...
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Reproducing Keys from Photographs
Reproducing keys from distant and angled photographs: Abstract:The access control provided by a physical lock is based on the assumption that the information content...
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Immediacy Affects Risk Assessments
New experiment demonstrates what we already knew: That's because people tend to view their immediate emotions, such as their perceptions of threats or risks, as...
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The Doghouse: Crypteto
Crypteto has a 49,152-bit symmetric key: The most important issue of any encryption product is the 'bit key strength'. To date the strongest known algorithm has...
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The Problem of Vague Laws
The average American commits three felonies a day: the title of a new book by Harvey Silverglate. More specifically, the problem is the intersection of vague laws...
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Predicting Characteristics of People by the Company they Keep
Turns out "gaydar" can be automated: Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends,...
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Unauthentication
In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it's passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something...
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Ass Bomber
Nobody tell the TSA, but last month someone tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum. He pretended to be a repentant militant...
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