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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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Creating Forensic Sketches from DNA
This seems really science fictional: It's already possible to make some inferences about the appearance of crime suspects from their DNA alone, including their...
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NSA Hacks Huawei
Both Der Spiegel and the New York Times are reporting that the NSA has hacked Huawei pretty extensively, getting copies of the company's products' source code and...
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Password Hashing Competition
There's a private competition to identify new password hashing schemes. Submissions are due at the end of the month....
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Smarter People are More Trusting
Interesting research. Both vocabulary and question comprehension were positively correlated with generalized trust. Those with the highest vocab scores were 34...
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Giant Squid as an Omen
An omen of what? An increase in the number of giant squid being caught along the Sea of Japan coast is leading puzzled fishermen to fear their presence may be some...
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Geolocating Twitter Users
Interesting research into figuring out where Twitter users are located, based on similar tweets from other users: While geotags are the most definitive location...
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Automatic Face-Recognition Software Getting Better
Facebook has developed a face-recognition system that works almost as well as the human brain: Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person...
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New Book on Data and Power
I'm writing a new book, with the tentative title of Data and Power. While it's obvious that the proliferation of data affects power, it's less clear how it does...
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An Open Letter to IBM's Open Letter
Last week, IBM published an "open letter" about "government access to data," where it tried to assure its customers that it's not handing everything over to the...
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Liveblogging the Financial Cryptography Conference
Ross Anderson liveblogged Financial Cryptography 2014. Interesting stuff....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Photos
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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NEBULA: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: NEBULA (S//SI//FVEY) Multi-Protocol macro-class Network-In-a-Box (NIB) system...
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Decoding the Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript has been partially decoded. This seems not to be a hoax. And the manuscript seems not to be a hoax, either. Here's the paper.
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GENESIS: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GENESIS (S//SI//REL) Commercial GSM handset that has been modified to include...
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Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?
Last October, I speculated on the best ways to go about designing and implementing a software backdoor. I suggested three characteristics of a good backdoor: low...
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ENTOURAGE: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: ENTOURAGE (S//SI//REL) Direction Finding application operating on the HOLLOWPOINT...
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DDoSing a Cell Phone Network
Interesting research: Abstract: The HLR/AuC is considered to be one of the most important network elements of a 3G network. It can serve up to five million subscribers...
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EBSR: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: EBSR (S//SI//REL) Multi-purpose, Pico class, tri-band active GSM base station...
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