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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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NSA Acronyms
The second document in this file is the recently unclassified "Guide to Historical Cryptologic Acronyms and Abbreviations, 1940-1980," from the NSA Note that there...
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Blue Coat Products Enable Web Censorship in Syria
It's illegal for Blue Coat to sell its technology for this purpose, but there are lots of third-parties who are willing to act as middlemen: "Blue Coat does not...
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Facebook Patent to Track Users Even When They are Not Logged In to Facebook
Patent number 2,011,023,240: Communicating Information in a Social Network System about Activities from Another Domain Abstract: In one embodiment, a method...
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Random Passwords in the Wild
Interesting analysis: the hacktivist group Anonymous hacked into several BART servers. They leaked part of a database of users from myBART, a website which provides...
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New Malware: Duqu
A newly discovered piece of malware, Duqu, seems to be a precursor to the next Stuxnet-like worm and uses some of the same techniques as the original.
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Discovering What Facebook Knows About You
Things are getting interesting in Europe: Max is a 24 year old law student from Vienna with a flair for the interview and plenty of smarts about both technology...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Prehistoric Sentient Squid
There's big news in the world of giant squid: Researchers initially thought that this strange grouping of 45-foot-long marine reptiles had either died en masse...
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Burglars Tip Off Police About Bigger Crime
I find this fascinating: A central California man has been arrested for possession of child pornography, thanks to a tip from burglars who robbed the man's property...
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Official Malware from the German Police
The Chaos Computer Club has disassembled and analyzed the Trojan used by the German police for legal intercept. In its default mode, it takes regular screenshots...
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New Attacks on CAPTCHAs
Nice research: Abstract: We report a novel attack on two CAPTCHAs that have been widely deployed on the Internet, one being Google's home design and the other...
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U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus
You'd think we would be more careful than this: A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America
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Friday Squid Blogging: Hundreds of Squid Wash Up on Southern California Beaches
Humboldt squid are washing up on beaches across Southern California. Seems like it's no big deal; the squid just swam too close to shore.
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Security Seals on Voting Machines
Related to this blog post from Wednesday, here's a paper that looks at security seals on voting machines. Andrew W. Appel, "Security Seals on Voting Machines:...
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FBI-Sponsored Backdoors
From a review of Susan Landau's Surveillance or Security?: To catch up with the new technologies of malfeasance, FBI director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon...
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