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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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If You See Something, Think Twice About Saying Something
"If you see something, say something." Or, maybe not: The Travis County Criminal Justice Center was closed for most of the day on Friday, May 14, after a maneven...
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Infosec Television Commercial
LIGATT Security certainly hopes to scare people.
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Scene from an Airport
I've gotten to the front of the security line and handed the TSA officer my ID and ticket. TSA Officer: (Looks at my ticket. Looks at my ID. Looks at me. Smiles...
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Alerting Users that Applications are Using Cameras, Microphones, Etc.
Interesting research: "What You See is What They Get: Protecting users from unwanted use of microphones, cameras, and other sensors," by Jon Howell and Stuart Schechter...
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Applications Disclosing Required Authority
This is an interesting piece of research evaluating different user interface designs by which applications disclose to users what sort of authority they need to...
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Automobile Security Analysis
"Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile," by a whole mess of authors: Abstract: Modern automobiles are no longer mere mechanical devices; they are...
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Detecting Browser History
Interesting research. Main results: [...] We analyzed the results from over a quarter of a million people who ran our tests in the last few months, and found...
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Militarized Marine Mammals
Dolphine and sea lions: A Navy seal - actually a sea lion - took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin...
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Outsourcing to an Indian Jail
This doesn't seem like the best idea: Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are planning to set up an outsourcing unit in a jail. The unit...
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Insect-Based Terrorism
Sounds like fearmongering to me. How real is the threat? Many of the world's most dangerous pathogens already are transmitted by arthropods, the animal phylum...
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Software Liabilities in the UK
The British High Court ruled that a software vendor's EULA -- which denied all liability for poor software -- was not reasonable. I wrote about software liabilities...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirts
Some nice ones (ignore the dinosaurs).
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New Windows Attack
It's still only in the lab, but nothing detects it right now: The attack is a clever "bait-and-switch" style move. Harmless code is passed to the security software...
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Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semi-Finalists
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
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Worst-Case Thinking
At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the...
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"If You See Something, Say Something"
That slogan is owned by New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (the MTA). Since obtaining the trademark in 2007, the authority has granted permission to use...
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