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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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New Orleans Scrapping Surveillance Cameras
They're not worth it: In seven years, New Orleans' crime camera program has yielded six indictments: three for crimes caught on video and three for bribes and...
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FBI Bugging Embassies in 1940
Old -- but recently released -- document discussing the bugging of the Russian embassy in 1940. The document also mentions bugging the embassies of France, Germany...
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Firesheep
Firesheep is a new Firefox plugin that makes it easy for you to hijack other people's social network connections. Basically, Facebook authenticates clients with...
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Declassified NSA Documents
It's a long list. These items are not online; they're at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, MD. You can either ask for copies by...
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Steganography in the Longfin Inshore Squid
Really: While the notion that a few animals produce polarization signals and use them in communication is not new, M
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Video Interview with Me from RSA Europe
I was interviewed this week at RSA Europe.
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FaceTime for Mac Security Hole
Once a user has logged into FaceTime, anyone with access to the machine can change the user's Apple ID password without knowing the old password.
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Electronic Car Lock Denial-of-Service Attack
Clever: Inspector Richard Haycock told local newspapers that the possible use of the car lock jammers would help explain a recent spate of thefts from vehicles...
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Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
I am the program chair for WEIS 2011, which is to be held next June in Washington, DC. Submissions are due at the end of February. Please forward and repost the...
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Predator Software Pirated?
This isn't good: Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi), a small Boston-based software development firm, alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Ha! When he's out and about near his Denver home, former Broncos quarterback John Elway has come up with a novel way to travel incognito
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Fingerprinting Telephone Calls
This is clever: The tool is called PinDr0p, and works by analysing the various characteristic noise artifacts left in audio by the different types of voice network...
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Indian OS
India is writing its own operating system so it doesn't have to rely on Western technology: India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) wants...
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Picking a Single Voice out of a Crowd
Interesting new technology. Squarehead's new system is like bullet-time for sound. 325 microphones sit in a carbon-fiber disk above the stadium, and a wide-angle...
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Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election
Some copycat imitated this xkcd cartoon in Sweden, hand writing an SQL injection attack onto a paper ballot. Even though the ballot was manually entered into the...
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The FBI is Tracking Whom?
They're tracking a college student in Silicon Valley. He's 20, partially Egyptian, and studying marketing at Mission College. He found the tracking device attached...
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The Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination
Remember the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination last January? The police identified 30 suspects, but haven't been able to find any of them. Police spent about 10...
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