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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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Interview with an NSA Hacker
Peter Maas interviewed the former NSA official who wrote the infamous "I Hunt Sysadmins" memo. It's interesting, but I wanted to hear less of Peter Maas -- I already...
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Security Analysis of TSA PreCheck
Interesting research: Mark G. Stewart and John Mueller, "Risk-based passenger screening: risk and economic assessment of TSA PreCheck increased security at reduced...
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Facebook Using Physical Location to Suggest Friends
This could go badly: "People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We show you people based on mutual friends...
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Crowdsourcing a Database of Hotel Rooms
There's an app that allows people to submit photographs of hotel rooms around the world into a centralized database. The idea is that photographs of victims of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescence as Camouflage
Interesting: There is one feature of the squid that is not transparent and which could act as a signal to prey the eyes. However, the squid has a developed protection...
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Using Social Media to Discover Hidden Wealth
Stories of burglars using social media to figure out who's on vacation are old hat. Now financial investigators are using social media to find hidden wealth....
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Comparing Messaging Apps
Michah Lee has a nice comparison among Signal, WhatsApp, and Allo. In this article, I'm going to compare WhatsApp, Signal, and Allo from a privacy perspective....
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Fraudsters are Buying IPv4 Addresses
IPv4 addresses are valuable, so criminals are figuring out how to buy or steal them. Hence criminals' interest in ways to land themselves IP addresses, some of...
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Issues Regarding Lone-Wolf Terrorism Prevention
Amy Zegert has some good questions, comparing the Orlando Pulse massacre to the Fort Hood massacre from 2009....
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Situational Awareness and Crime Prevention
Ronald V. Clarke argues for more situational awareness in crime prevention. Turns out if you make crime harder, it goes down. And this has profound policy implications...
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Security Behavior of Pro-ISIS Groups on Social Media
Interesting: Since the team had tracked these groups daily, researchers could observe the tactics that pro-ISIS groups use to evade authorities. They found that...
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CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist
Last week, CIA director John Brennan told a Senate committee that there wasn't any strong cryptography outside of the US. CIA director John Brennan told US senators...
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Nude Photos as Loan Collateral
The New York Times is reporting that some women in China are being forced to supply nude photos of themselves as collateral for getting a loan. Aside from the awfulness...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Not Finding a Giant Squid on Google Earth
The Internet is buzzing -- at least, my little corner of the Internet -- about finding a 120-meter-long giant squid on Google Earth. It's a false alarm. As usual...
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Computer Science Education Is Security Education
This essay argues that teaching computer science at the K-12 level is a matter of national security. I think the argument is even broader. Computers, networks,...
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Apple's Differential Privacy
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, Apple talked about something called "differential privacy." We know very little about the details...
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Infecting Systems by Typosquatting Programming Language Libraries
Typosquatting is an old trick of registering a domain name a typo away from a popular domain name and using it for various nefarious purposes. Nikolai Philipp Tschacher...
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