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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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Terrorism Entrapment
Back in 2007, I wrote an essay, "Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot," where I said: The JFK Airport plotters seem to have been egged on by an informant...
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UAE Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against SSL
Interesting: Who are these certificate authorities? At the beginning of Web history, there were only a handful of companies, like Verisign, Equifax, and Thawte...
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Successful Attack Against a Quantum Cryptography System
Clever: Quantum cryptography is often touted as being perfectly secure. It is based on the principle that you cannot make measurements of a quantum system without...
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Cyber-Offence is the New Cyber-Defense
This is beyond stupid: The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking...
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Wanted: Skein Hardware Help
As part of NIST's SHA-3 selection process, people have been implementing the candidate hash functions on a variety of hardware and software platforms. Our team...
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More Skein News
Skein is my new hash function. Well, "my" is an overstatement; I'm one of the eight designers. It was submitted to NIST for their SHA-3 competition, and oneselected...
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Eavesdropping on Smart Homes with Distributed Wireless Sensors
"Protecting your daily in-home activity information from a wireless snooping attack," by Vijay Srinivasan, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse: Abstract: In...
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High School Teacher Assigns Movie-Plot Threat Contest Problem
In Australia: A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible had no intent to promote...
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Misidentification and the Court System
Chilling: How do most wrongful convictions come about? The primary cause is mistaken identification. Actually, I wouldn't call it mistaken identification; I'd...
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Security Theater on the Boston T
Since a fatal crash a few years ago, Boston T (their subway) operators have been forbidden from using -- or even having -- cell phones while on the job. Passengers...
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Me at the EastWest Institute
Back in May, I attended the EastWest Institute's First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas. I only had eight minutes to speak, and tried to turn the dialog...
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Is the Whole Country an Airport Security Zone?
Full-body scanners in roving vans: American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more...
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Detecting Deception in Conference Calls
Research paper: Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls, by David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. Abstract: We estimate classification models...
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Social Steganography
From danah boyd: Carmen is engaging in social steganography. She's hiding information in plain sight, creating a message that can be read in one way by those who...
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Skeletal Identification
And you thought fingerprints were intrusive. The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures...
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Malware Contributory Cause of Air Crash
This is a first, I think: The airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
Who knew? "Hulse was shooting with burst mode on his camera, so I know exactly what the interval is between the frames and I can calculate velocity of squid flying...
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