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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
Large-Scale Food Theft
A criminal gang is stealing truckloads of food: Late last month, a gang of thieves stole six tractor-trailer loads of tomatoes and a truck full of cucumbers from...
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Costs of Security
Interesting blog post on the security costs for the $50B Air Force bomber program -- estimated to be $8B. This isn't all computer security, but the original article...
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Software as Evidence
Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It's not just the RIAA suing people -- and getting it wrong -- based on automatic systems to detect and...
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WikiLeaks Cable about Chinese Hacking of U.S. Networks
We know it's prevalent, but there's some new information: Secret U.S. State Department cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to Reuters by a third party...
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"Schneier's Law"
Back in 1998, I wrote: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. In 2004, Cory Doctorow...
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Unanticipated Security Risk of Keeping Your Money in a Home Safe
In Japan, lots of people -- especially older people -- keep their life savings in cash in their homes. (The country's banks pay very low interest rates, so the...
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Changing Incentives Creates Security Risks
One of the things I am writing about in my new book is how security equilibriums change. They often change because of technology, but they sometimes change because...
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Security Fears of Wi-Fi in London Underground
The London Underground is getting Wi-Fi. Of course there are security fears: But Will Geddes, founder of ICP Group which specialises in reducing terror or technology...
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Euro Coin Recycling Scam
This story is just plain weird. Regularly, damaged coins are taken out of circulation. They're destroyed and then sold to scrap metal dealers. That makes sense...
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Israel's Counter-Cyberterrorism Unit
You'd think the country would already have one of these: Israel is mulling the creation of a counter-cyberterrorism unit designed to safeguard both government...
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How did the CIA and FBI Know that Australian Government Computers were Hacked?
Newspapers are reporting that, for about a month, hackers had access to computers "of at least 10 federal ministers including the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister...
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New French Law Reduces Website Security
I didn't know about this: The law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This...
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The CIA and Assassinations
The former CIA general counsel, John A. Rizzo, talks about his agency's assassination program, which has increased dramatically under the Obama administration: ...
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Friday Squid Blogging: A New Book About Squid
Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid. Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book...
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Get Your Terrorist Alerts on Facebook and Twitter
Colors are so last decade: The U.S. government's new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings
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Pinpointing a Computer to Within 690 Meters
This is impressive, and scary: Every computer connected to the web has an internet protocol (IP) address, but there is no simple way to map this to a physical...
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Detecting Cheaters
Our brains are specially designed to deal with cheating in social exchanges. The evolutionary psychology explanation is that we evolved brain heuristics formodus...
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Optical Stun Ray
It's been patented; no idea if it actually works. ...newly patented device can render an assailant helpless with a brief flash of high-intensity light. It works...
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