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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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NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum
Most people might not be aware of it, but there's a National Cryptologic Museum at Ft. Meade, at NSA Headquarters. It's hard to know its exact relationship with...
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WikiLeaks Insurance File
Now this is an interesting development: In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks' recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents...
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UAE to Ban BlackBerrys
The United Arab Emirates -- Dubai, etc. -- is threatening to ban BlackBerrys because they can't eavesdrop on them. At the heart of the battle is access to thecomplicated...
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Location-Based Quantum Encryption
Location-based encryption -- a system by which only a recipient in a specific location can decrypt the message -- fails because location can be spoofed. Now asolved...
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Eavesdropping Smartphone Apps
Seems there are a lot of them. They do it for marketing purposes. Really, they seem to do it because the code base they use does it automatically or just because...
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Book Review: How Risky Is It, Really?
David Ropeik is a writer and consultant who specializes in risk perception and communication. His book, How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Launcher from "Despicable Me"
Don't squid me, bro.
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Doomsday Shelters
Selling fear: The Vivos network, which offers partial ownerships similar to a timeshare in underground shelter communities, is one of several ventures touting...
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Hacking ATMs
Hacking ATMs to spit out money, demonstrated at the Black Hat conference: The two systems he hacked on stage were made by Triton and Tranax. The Tranax hack was...
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Security Vulnerabilities of Smart Electricity Meters
"Who controls the off switch?" by Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria. Abstract: We're about to acquire a significant new cybervulnerability. The world's energy...
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DNSSEC Root Key Split Among Seven People
The DNSSEC root key has been divided among seven people: Part of ICANN's security scheme is the Domain Name System Security, a security protocol that ensures Web...
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Pork-Filled Counter-Islamic Bomb Device
Okay, this is just weird: Mark S. Price, a specialist in public security, and his privately held company, Paradise Lost Antiterrorism Network of America (www.plan...
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WPA Cracking in the Cloud
It's a service: The mechanism used involves captured network traffic, which is uploaded to the WPA Cracker service and subjected to an intensive brute force cracking...
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Technology is Making Life Harder for Spies
An article from The Economist makes a point that I have been thinking about for a while: the modern technology makes life harder for spies, not easier. It used...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squidbillies
Where do these TV shows come from? Follows the adventures of the Cuylers, an impoverished and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids...
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The Washington Post on the U.S. Intelligence Industry
The Washington Post has published a phenomenal piece of investigative journalism: a long, detailed, and very interesting expose on the U.S. intelligence industry...
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Internet Worm Targets SCADA
Stuxnet is a new Internet worm that specifically targets Siemens WinCC SCADA systems: used to control production at industrial plants such as oil rigs, refineries...
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