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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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Matt Blaze Comments on his 15-Year-Old "Afterword"
Fifteen years ago, Matt Blaze wrote an Afterword to my book Applied Cryptography. Here are his current thoughts on that piece of writing.
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Externalities and Identity Theft
Chris Hoofnagle has a new paper: "Internalizing Identity Theft." Basically, he shows that one of the problems is that lenders extend credit even when credit applications...
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Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 2
John Adams argues that our irrationality about comparative risks depends on the type of risk: With "pure" voluntary risks, the risk itself, with its associated...
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Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 1
Nice analysis by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart: There is a general agreement about risk, then, in the established regulatory practices of several developed...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Againt SSL
Says Matt Blaze: A decade ago, I observed that commercial certificate authorities protect you from anyone from whom they are unwilling to take money. That turns...
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Makeup to Fool Face Recognition Software
An NYU student has been reverse-engineering facial recognition algorithms to devise makeup patterns to confuse face recognition software.
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Me in CRN
CRN Magazine named me as one of its security superstars of 2010.
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Schneier on "Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap"
Last month at the RSA Conference, I gave a talk titled "Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap." It was pretty good, but it was the first time I gave that talk...
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Cryptanalysis of the DECT
New cryptanalysis of the proprietrary encryption algorithm used in the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) standard for cordless phones. Abstract...
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The Effectiveness of Air Marshals
Air marshals are being arrested faster than air marshals are making arrests. Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air marshals than that story...
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Cryptography Broken on American Military Attack Video
Any ideas? At a news conference at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks said it had acquired the video from whistle-blowers in the military and viewed it after breaking...
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New York and the Moscow Subway Bombing
People intent on preventing a Moscow-style terrorist attack against the New York subway system are proposing a range of expensive new underground security measures...
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Privacy and Control
In January, Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment...
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Detecting Being Watched
This seems like science fiction to me: The camera uses the same "red eye" effect of from camera flashes to project it hundreds of meters, allowing it to identify...
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"Protecting Europe Against Large-Scale Cyber-Attacks"
Report from the House of Lords in the UK (pdf version).
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