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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 …
From Schneier on Security
"The Fear Tax"
Good essay by Seth Godin: We pay the fear tax every time we spend time or money seeking reassurance. We pay it twice when the act of seeking that reassurance actually...
From Schneier on Security
Crypto 2010 Proceedings
The Crypto 2010 Conference is going on right now at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Springer-Verlag publishes the proceedings, but they're available...
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Hacking Cars Through Wireless Tire-Pressure Sensors
Still minor, but this kind of thing is only going to get worse: The new research shows that other systems in the vehicle are similarly insecure. The tire pressure...
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Breaking into a Garage
In seconds. Garage doors with automatic openers have always seemed like a lot of security theater to me.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Computer Virus
It wasn't me: A hardened computer hacker has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that systematically destroys all the files on victims' PCs...
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Cloning Retail Gift Cards
Clever attack. After researching how gift cards work, Zepeda purchased a magnetic card reader online, began stealing blank gift cards, on display for purchase,...
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Security Analysis of Smudges on Smart Phone Touch Screens
"Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens": Abstract: Touch screens are an increasingly common feature on personal computing devices, especially smartphones...
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Late Teens and Facebook Privacy
Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?" by danah boyd and Eszter Hargittai. Abstract: With over 500 million users, the decisions that Facebook makes about its...
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A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
Lately I've been reading about user security and privacy -- control, really -- on social networking sites. The issues are hard and the solutions harder, but I'm...
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P ? NP?
There's a new paper circulating that claims to prove that P ? NP. The paper has not been refereed, and I haven't seen any independent verifications or refutations...
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Ant Warfare
Interesting: According to Moffett, we might actually learn a thing or two from how ants wage war. For one, ant armies operate with precise organization despite...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Canadian Squid Stamp
It's a giant fiberglass squid from Newfoundland.
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Yet Another Way to Sneak Liquids onto an Airplane
Coffee cup disguised as a camera lens.
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More Brain Scans to Detect Future Terrorists
Worked well in a test: For the first time, the Northwestern researchers used the P300 testing in a mock terrorism scenario in which the subjects are planning,More...
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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...
From Schneier on Security
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...
From Schneier on Security