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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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Sensible Comments about Terrorism
Two, at least: "Bee stings killed as many in UK as terrorists, says watchdog." "Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism." Is...
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Students Hack DHS Drone
A team at the University of Texas successfully spoofed the GPS and took control of a DHS drone, for about $1,000 in off-the-shelf parts. Does anyone think that...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Squid
This was suprisingly interesting. When a body is mysterious, you cut it open. You peel back the skin and take stock of its guts. It is the science of an arrow,...
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Me on Military Cyberattacks and Cyberweapons Treaties
I did a short Q&A for Network World.
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Naming Pets
Children are being warned that the name of their first pet should contain at least eight characters and a digit.
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So You Want to Be a Security Expert
I regularly receive e-mail from people who want advice on how to learn more about computer security, either as a course of study in college or as an IT person considering...
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Commercial Espionage Virus
It's designed to steal blueprints and send them to China. Note that although this is circumstantial evidence that the virus is from China, it is possible that...
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WEIS 2012
Last week I was at the Workshop on Economics and Information Security in Berlin. Excellent conference, as always. Ross Anderson liveblogged the event; see the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Found
A dead 13-foot-long giant squid has been found off the coast of New South Wales. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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On Securing Potentially Dangerous Virology Research
Abstract: The problem of securing biological research data is a difficult and complicated one. Our ability to secure data on computers is not robust enough toScience...
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Nuclear Fears
Interesting review -- by David Roepik -- of The Rise of Nuclear Fear, by Spencer Weart: Along with contributing to the birth of the environmental movement, Weart...
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Top Secret America on the Post-9/11 Cycle of Fear and Funding
I'm reading Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Both work for The Washington Post. The book...
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Russian Nuclear Launch Code Backup Procedure
If the safe doesn't open, use a sledgehammer: The sledgehammer's existence first came to light in 1980, when a group of inspecting officers from the General Staff...
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E-Mail Accounts More Valuable than Bank Accounts
This informal survey produced the following result: "45% of the users found their email accounts more valuable than their bank accounts." The author believes this...
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Resilience
There was a conference on resilience (highlights here, and complete videos here) earlier this year. Here's an interview with professor Sander van der Leeuw on...
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Op-ed Explaining why Terrorism Doesn't Work
Good essay by Max Abrams. I've written about his research before.
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