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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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Dangerous Security Theater: Scrambling Fighter Jets
This story exemplifies everything that's wrong with our see-something-say-something war on terror: a perfectly innocent person on an airplane, a random person identifying...
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Violence as a Contagious Disease
This is fascinating: Intuitively we understand that people surrounded by violence are more likely to be violent themselves. This isn't just some nebulous phenomenon...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squirming Tentacle USB Drive
Just the thing. (Note that this is different than the previous squid USB drive I blogged about.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Video Interview with Me
This interview was conducted last month, at an artificial intelligence conference at Oxford.
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Shaming as Punishment for Repeated Drunk Driving
Janesville, Wisconsin, has published information about repeated drunk driving offenders since 2010. The idea is that the public shame will reduce future incidents...
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Identifying People from their Writing Style
It's called stylometry, and it's based on the analysis of things like word choice, sentence structure, syntax and punctuation. In one experiment, researchers were...
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Identifying People from their DNA
Interesting: The genetic data posted online seemed perfectly anonymous - strings of billions of DNA letters from more than 1,000 people. But all it took was some...
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The Security of the Mega File-Sharing Service
Ever since the launch of Kim Dotcom's file-sharing service, I have been asked about the unorthodox encryption and security system. I have not reviewed it, andthis...
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Commenting on Aaron Swartz's Death
There has been an enormous amount written about the suicide of Aaron Swartz. This is primarily a collection of links, starting with those that use his death to...
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Google's Authentication Research
Google is working on non-password authentication techniques. But for Google's password-liberation plan to really take off, they’re going to need other websites...
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Thinking About Obscurity
This essay is worth reading: Obscurity is the idea that when information is hard to obtain or understand, it is, to some degree, safe. Safety, here, doesn't mean...
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TSA Removing Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners from U.S. Airports
This is big news: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSItwo...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Search for the Colossal Squid
Now that videographers have bagged a giant squid, the search turns to the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Against Browser Encryption
Last week, a story broke about how Nokia mounts man-in-the-middle attacks against secure browser sessions. The Finnish phone giant has since admitted that it decrypts...
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Essay on FBI-Mandated Backdoors
Good essay by Matt Blaze and Susan Landau.
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Cheating at Chess
There's a fascinating story about a probable tournament chess cheat. No one knows how he does it; there's only the facts that 1) historically he's not nearly as...
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Lexical Warfare
This essay, which uses the suicide of Aaron Swartz as a jumping off point for how the term "hactivist" has been manipulated by various powers, has this to say about...
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Anti-Surveillance Clothing
It's both an art project and a practical clothing line. ...Harvey's line of "Stealth Wear" clothing includes an "anti-drone hoodie" that uses metalized material...
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The Origins of War
Philosophy professor David Livingstone Smith on the origins of war.
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