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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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Brute-Force Safecracking
This safecracking robot tries every possible combination, one after another: Combination space optimization is the key. By exploiting of the mechanical tolerances...
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Blowfish in Good Time Max
This screen shot is from the movie "Good Time Max." 17 minutes and 52 seconds into the movie, it shows Blowfish being used as an encryption algorithm.
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Cyberwar is Overhyped
A new report from the OECD says the threat of cyberwar has been grossly exaggerated. (Hey, that's what I said.) There are lots of news articles. Also worth...
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The Legality of the Certificate Authority Trust Model
Interesting research: We looked at the standard legal documents issued by the certificate authorities or "CAs," including exemplar Subscriber Agreements (agreements...
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Full-Body Scanners
Research paper from Mark Stewart and John Mueller: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been deploying Advanced Imaging Technologies (AIT) that...
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Do Corporations Have a Right to Privacy?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether or not corporations have the same rights to "personal privacy" that individuals do. Thisbrief...
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Odd Art Forger
He's not in it for the money: Mr. Landis...has been one of the most prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years, writing, calling and presenting...
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Movie-Plot Threats at the U.S. Capitol
This would make a great movie: Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., renewed his call for the installation of an impenetrable, see-through security shield around the viewing...
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More Stuxnet News
This long New York Times article includes some interesting revelations. The article claims that Stuxnet was a joint Israeli-American project, and that its effectiveness...
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New Revelations in the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination
I wrote a lot last year about the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. There's a new article by an Israeli investigative journalist that tells the story...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Deep-Sea Squid Video
"Anthology of Deep-Sea Squids," from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Me on Airport Security
Last week, I spoke at an airport security conference hosted by EPIC: The Stripping of Freedom: A Careful Scan of TSA Security Procedures. Here's the video of my...
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Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA
I'm not really worried about mistakes like this. Sure, a gun slips through occasionally, and a knife slips through even more often. (I'm sure the TSA doesn't catch...
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Surviving a Terrorist's Nuclear Attack
Interesting reading, mostly for the probable effects of a terrorist-sized nuclear bomb. A terrorist bomb is likely to be relatively small -- possibly only a fraction...
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Stealing SIM Cards from Traffic Lights
Johannesburg installed hundreds of networked traffic lights on its streets. The lights use a cellular modem and a SIM card to communicate. Those lights introduced...
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The Security Threat of Forged Law-Enforcement Credentials
Here's a U.S. Army threat assessment of forged law-enforcement credentials. The authors bought a bunch of fake badges: Between November 2009 and March 2010, undercover...
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Attacking High-Frequency Trading Networks
Turns out you can make money by manipulating the network latency. cPacket has developed a proof of concept showing that these side-channel attacks can be usedthis...
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"Homeland Security Hasn't Made Us Safer"
This will be nothing new to readers of this blog, but it's nice to read other people saying it too.
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James Fallows on Political Shootings
Interesting: So the train of logic is: anything that can be called an "assassination" is inherently political; very often the "politics" are obscure, personal...
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