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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Insurgent Groups Exhibit Learning Curve
Interesting research: After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Egg
Interesting pictures. Article is in Italian, though. Google Translate translation.
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Organized Crime in Ireland Evolves As Security Increases
The whole article is interesting, but here's just one bit: The favoured quick-fix money-making exercise of the average Irish organised crime gang had, for decades...
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Comparing al Qaeda and the IRA
A really interesting article: Al Qaeda played all out, spent all its assets in a few years. In my dumb-ass 2005 article, I called the Al Qaeda method "real war"...
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Man Flies with Someone Else's Ticket and No Legal ID
Last week, I got a bunch of press calls about Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, who flew from New York to Los Angeles using an expired ticket in someone else's name andmakes...
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Research in Secure Chips
Unsuprisingly, the U.S. military is funding reseach in this.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid as an Emblem for Ocean Conservation
It's a proposal.
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TDSS Rootkit
There's a new version: The latest TDL-4 version of the rootkit, which is used as a persistent backdoor to install other types of malware, infected 4.52 million...
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Menwith Hill
Article on the NSA's Menwith Hill listening station in the UK.
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Chinese Army Developed Online Wargame
This is a really weird story: After setting up its own cyber-warfare team, China's military has now developed its first online war game aimed at improving combat...
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Yet Another "People Plug in Strange USB Sticks" Story
I'm really getting tired of stories like this: Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, andcourse...
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Common PINs
There's some great data on common iPhone passwords. I'm sure the results also apply to banking PINs.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Humboldt Squid
Chris Cosentino, chef at Incanto in San Francisco, wants to serve you Humboldt squid.
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Selling a Good Reputation on eBay
Here's someone who is selling positive feedback on eBay: Hello, for sale is a picture of a tree. This tree is an original and was taken by me. I have gotten...
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Assisting a Hostage Taker via Facebook
It's a new world: An armed Valdez, 36, held a woman hostage at a motel in a tense 16-hour, overnight standoff with SWAT teams, all while finding time to keep his...
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Protecting Private Information on Smart Phones
AppFence is a technology -- with a working prototype -- that protects personal information on smart phones. It does this by either substituting innocuous information...
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NSA Style Manual
National Security Agency (NSA) SIGINT Reporter's Style and Usage Manual, 2010.
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