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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: Squid Robots
Two of them; one was blogged about last year.
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Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now
This is from Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself, published in 1950: Of course, millions of us will go through our lives never seeing a spy or a saboteur...
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Cryptography Failure Story
By Russian spies: Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found...
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Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion
For a while now, I've pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website...
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Cryptography Success Story
From Brazil: the moral, of course, is to choose a strong key and to encrypt the entire drive, not just key files.
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Space Terrorism
Space terrorism? Yes, space terrorism. This article, by someone at the European Space Policy Institute, hypes a terrorst threat I've never seen hyped before....
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Baby Terrorists
This, from Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas, is about as dumb as it gets: I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at...
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Third SHB Workshop
I'm at SHB 2010, the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Cambridge University. This is a two-day gathering of computer securityprogram...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid
The vampire squid can turn itself inside out to avoid predators.
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Hacker Scare Story
"10 Everyday Items Hackers Are Targeting Right Now" 5. Your Blender. Yes, Your Blender That's right: your blender is under attack! Most mixers are self-contained...
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Security Trade-Offs in Crayfish
Interesting: The experiments offered the crayfish stark decisions -- a choice between finding their next meal and becoming a meal for an apparent predator. In...
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TacSat-3 "Hyperspectral" Spy Satellite
It's operational: The idea of hyperspectral sensing is not, however, merely to "see" in the usual sense of optical telescopes, infrared nightscopes and/or thermal...
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WikiLeaks
Long, but interesting, profile of WikiLeaks's Julian Assange from The New Yorker. Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect...
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Popsicle Makers a Security Threat
Chicago chef Rick Bayless photographed this security sign, posted before airport security as people were returning home from the Aspen Food & Wine Festival: No...
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How Much Counterterrorism Can We Afford?
In an article on using terahertz rays (is that different from terahertz radar?) to detect biological agents, we find this quote: "High-tech, low-tech, we can't...
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The Real Risk: Traffic Deaths
The New York Times Room for Debate blog did the topic: "Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?"
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Buying an ATM Skimmer
Interesting: TM skimmers -- or fraud devices that criminals attach to cash machines in a bid to steal and ultimately clone customer bank card data -- are marketed...
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Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers
If you give people enough incentive to cheat, people will cheat: Of all the forms of academic cheating, none may be as startling as educators tampering with children's...
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