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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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HBGary and the Future of the IT Security Industry
This is a really good piece by Paul Roberts on Anonymous vs. HBGary: not the tactics or the politics, but what HBGary demonstrates about the IT security industry...
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Good Article About the Terrorist Non-Threat
From Reason: Know thy enemy is an ancient principle of warfare. And if America had heeded it, it might have refrained from a full-scale "war" on terrorism whose...
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Susan Landau on Government Surveillance of the Internet
Excellent House testimony.
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Terrorist-Catching Con Man
Interesting story about a con man who conned the U.S. government, and how the government is trying to hide its dealings with him. For eight years, government officials...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Hearing
Interesting: Squid can hear, scientists have confirmed. But they don't detect the changes in pressure associated with sound waves, like we do. They have another...
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Biometric Wallet
Not an electronic wallet, a physical one: Virtually indestructible, the dunhill Biometric Wallet will open only with touch of your fingerprint. It can be linked...
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NIST Defines New Versions of SHA-512
NIST has just defined two new versions of SHA-512. They're SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256: 224- and 256-bit truncations of SHA-512 with a new IV. They've done this...
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Historical Study of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board
Recently declassified: "Historical Study: The National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board 1952
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Romanian Hackers
Interesting article from Wired: "How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central."
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The Seven Types of Hackers
Roger Grimes has an article describing "the seven types of malicious hackers." I generally like taxonomies, and this one is pretty good. He says the seven types...
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Societal Security
Humans have a natural propensity to trust non-kin, even strangers. We do it so often, so naturally, that we don't even realize how remarkable it is. But except...
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Credit Card Fraud Ring
It amazes me that credit card fraud is so easy that you can run it from prison.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pheromone
A newly discovered female squid pheromone sparks aggression in male squids. Article.
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Julian Sanchez on Balancing Privacy and Security
From a blog post: In my own area of study, the familiar trope of "balancing privacy and security" is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because...
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How Feed-Over-Email Circumvents Chinese Censorship
Neat article, both the technology and the hacker who created it.
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Hacking Scratch Lottery Tickets
Design failure means you can pick winning tickets before scratching the coatings off. Most interesting is that there's statistical evidence that this sort of attack...
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Bomb-Sniffing Mice
I was interviewed for this story on a mouse-powered explosives detector. Animal senses are better than any detection machine current technology can build, which...
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