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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever
It's an oil field: Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed Wednesday that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude...
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The Social Dynamics of Terror
Good essay: Nineteenth-century anarchists promoted what they called the "propaganda of the deed," that is, the use of violence as a symbolic action to make a larger...
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SMS of Death
This will be hard to fix: Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications
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Sony PS3 Security Broken
Sony used an ECDSA signature scheme to protect the PS3. Trouble is, they didn't pay sufficient attention to their random number generator.
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Eavesdropping on GSM Calls
It's easy and cheap: Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping...
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Guard Towers at WalMart
This feels very creepy and police-state-like. What on earth could WalMart be worried about?
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Polar Bears Destroying Hidden Cameras
Watch the video. What valuable security lessons does this teach? EDITED TO ADD (1/3): And why aren't the polar bears destroying the hidden cameras that are...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Skin
DoD awarded a $6M grant to study squid skin: "Our internal nickname for this project is 'squid skin,' but it is really about fundamental research," said Naomi...
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TSA Inspecting Thermoses
This is new: Adm. James Winnefeld told The Associated Press Friday that the Transportation Security Administration is "always trying to think ahead." Winnefeld...
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Terrorism Reading List
Interesting interview, discussing five books (none of which I've read, by the way).
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An Honest Privacy Policy
Funny: The data we collect is strictly anonymous, unless you've been kind enough to give us your name, email address, or other identifying information. And even...
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This Suspicious Photography Stuff Is Confusing
See: Last week, Metro Transit Police received a report from a rider about suspicious behavior at the L'Enfant Plaza station and on an Orange Line train to Vienna...
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PlugBot
Interesting: PlugBot is a hardware bot. It's a covert penetration testing device designed for use during physical penetration tests. PlugBot is a tiny computer...
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Cyberwar Movie Plot from an Actual Thriller Writer
It could make a good movie.
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