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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: Prosthetic Tentacle
Impressive: Designed for a class project while getting her degree at the Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington, Kaylene Kau has not only...
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Hiding PETN from Full-Body Scanners
From the Journal of Transporation Security, "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," by Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson...
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Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD?
It has been accused of it. I doubt this is true. One, it's a very risky thing to do. And two, there are more than enough exploitable security vulnerabilities...
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Fake Amazon Receipt Generators
They can be used to scam Amazon Marketplace merchants: What happens once our scammer is armed with his fake receipt? Well, many sellers on Amazon will ask you...
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Security in 2020
There’s really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You’re secure from something or against something...
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Realistic Masks
They're causing problems: A white bank robber in Ohio recently used a "hyper-realistic" mask manufactured by a small Van Nuys company to disguise himself as a...
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Evan Kohlmann
Interesting profile of Evan Kohlmann: Evan Kohlmann spends his days lurking in the darkest corners of the Internet, where jihadists recruit sympathizers from across...
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Proprietary Encryption in Car Immobilizers Cracked
This shouldn't be a surprise: Karsten Nohl's assessment of dozens of car makes and models found weaknesses in the way immobilisers are integrated with the rest...
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Sometimes CCTV Cameras Work
Sex attack caught on camera. Hamilton police have arrested two men after a sex attack on a woman early today was caught on the city's closed circuit television...
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CRB Check Backlash
Against stupid CRB checks: Last January, Annabel Hayter, chairwoman of Gloucester Cathedral Flower Guild, received an email saying that she and her 60 fellow flower...
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New TSA Security Test
I experienced a new TSA security check at Phoenix Airport last Thursday. The agent took my over-three-ounce bottle of saline, put a drop of it on a white cardboard...
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NIST Announces SHA-3 Finalists (Skein is One of Them)
Yesterday, NIST announced the five hash functions to advance to the third (and final) round in the SHA-3 selection process: BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak, and Skein...
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Alternate Scanning Technologies
Iscon uses infrared light rather than X-rays. I have no idea how well it works. And Rapiscan has a new patent: Abstract: The present invention is directed towards...
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Department of Homeland Security Getting a Little too 1984ish
A DHS video message, reminding people to look out for and report suspicious activity, will be displayed at WalMart stores around the country.
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WikiLeaks
I don't have a lot to say about WikiLeaks, but I do want to make a few points. 1. Encryption isn't the issue here. Of course the cables were encrypted, for transmission...
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Never Let the Terrorists Know How We're Storing Road Salt
This seems not to be a joke: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the state after it refused to release the construction plans for a...
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