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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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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2015)
Earlier this week, I was at the eighth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. This is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the...
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Reassessing Airport Security
News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security "red team" tests was justifiably shocking...
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Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 3)
Cloud computing is the future of computing. Specialization and outsourcing make society more efficient and scalable, and computing isn't any different. But why...
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Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 2)
Let me start by describing two approaches to the cloud. Most of the students I meet at Harvard University live their lives in the cloud. Their e-mail, documents...
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Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 1)
Yes. No. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Okay, it's complicated. The economics of cloud computing are compelling. For companies, the lower operating costs, the lack of capital...
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The Effects of Near Misses on Risk Decision-Making
This is interesting research: "How Near-Miss Events Amplify or Attenuate Risky Decision Making," Catherine H. Tinsley, Robin L. Dillon, and Matthew A. Cronin. In...
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Surveillance Law and Surveillance Studies
Interesting paper by Julie Cohen: Abstract: The dialogue between law and Surveillance Studies has been complicated by a mutual misrecognition that is both theoretical...
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Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers
Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers)...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Lore
Legends of giant squid go back centuries: In his book "The Search for the Giant Squid" marine biologist Richard Ellis notes that "There is probably no apparition...
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US Identifies and Destroys ISIS Headquarters Because of "Selfie"
The news media is buzzing about how the US military identified the location of an ISIS HQ because someone there took a photo and posted it. Quoting Air Force General...
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NSA Running a Massive IDS on the Internet Backbone
The latest story from the Snowden documents, co-published by The New York Times and ProPublica, shows that the NSA is operating a signature-based intrusion detection...
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Yet Another New Biometric: Brainprints
New research: In "Brainprint," a newly published study in academic journal Neurocomputing, researchers from Binghamton University observed the brain signals of...
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2015 EPIC Champions of Freedom Dinner
Monday night, EPIC -- that's the Electronic Privacy Information Center -- had its annual Champions of Freedom Dinner. I tell you this for two reasons. One, I received...
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Smart Billboards Recognize Cops
There are smart billboards in Russia that change what they display when cops are watching. Of course there are a gazillion ways this kind of thing will go wrong...
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TSA Not Detecting Weapons at Security Checkpoints
This isn't good: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports,...
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Fun NSA Surveillance Quizzes
Okay, maybe not so fun. Quiz 1: "Just How Kafkaesque is the Court that Oversees NSA Spying?" Quiz 2: "Can You Tell the Difference Between Bush and Obama on the...
From Schneier on Security
US Also Tried Stuxnet Against North Korea
According to a Reuters article, the US military tried to launch Stuxnet against North Korea in addition to Iran: According to one U.S. intelligence source, Stuxnet's...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Nutty Conspiracy Theory Involving Both the NSA and SQUID
It's almost as if they wrote it for me. These devices, which are known as super conducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDS for short), can be attached to NSA...
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