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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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RAND Corporation on Trusted Traveler
New paper: "Assessing the Security Benefits of a Trusted Traveler Program in the Presence of Attempted Attacker Exploitation and Compromise": Current aviation...
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Fourth SHB Workshop
I'm at SHB 2011, the fourth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Carnegie Mellon University. This is a two-day invitational gathering of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Deep-Sea Squid Picture
From the Telegraph (also here).
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Court Ruling on "Reasonable" Electronic Banking Security
One of the pleasant side effects of being too busy to write longer blog posts is that -- if I wait long enough -- someone else writes what I would have wanted to...
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WEIS 2011
I'm at the Tenth Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2011) , at George Mason University. Most of the papers are online, and Ross Anderson is liveblogging...
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The Non-Anonymity of Bubble Forms
It turns out that "fill-in-the-bubble" forms are not so anonymous.
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Status Report on the War on Photography
Worth reading: Morgan Leigh Manning, "Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers' Rights and Law Enforcement," Tennessee Law Review...
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Yet Another Way to Evade TSA's Full-Body Scanners
Last night, at the Third EPIC Champion of Freedom Awards Dinner, we gave an award to Susie Castillo, whose blog post and video of her treatment in the hands of...
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Why it's So Difficult to Trace Cyber-Attacks
I've been asked this question by countless reporters in the past couple of weeks. Here's a good explanation. Shorter answer: it's easy to spoof source destination...
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Two Good Rants
Patrick Gray on why we secretly love LulzSec, and Robert Cringely on why we openly hate RSA.
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New Airport Scanning Technology
Interesting: Iscon's patented, thermo-conductive technology combines infrared (IR) and heat transfer, for high-resolution imaging without using any radiation....
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Spam as a Business
Interesting research: Kirill Levchenko, et al. (2010), "Click Trajectories -- End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy...
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25% of U.S. Criminal Hackers are Police Informants
I have no idea if this is true: In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have...
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