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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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Back Door in Battery Charger
Amazing: The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a...
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PDF the Most Common Malware Vector
MS Word has been dethroned: Files based on Reader were exploited in almost 49 per cent of the targeted attacks of 2009, compared with about 39 per cent that took...
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Even More on the al-Mabhouh Assassination
This, from a former CIA chief of station: The point is that in this day and time, with ubiquitous surveillance cameras, the ability to comprehensively analysearticle...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Preserving Your Giant Squid
Plastination: For several years von Hagens and his team experimented using smaller squid, and found that the fragility of the skin needed a slower replacement...
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Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol
This would worry me, if the liquid ban weren't already useless. The reporter found the security flaw in the airport's duty-free shopping system. At Schiphol airport...
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Security Trade-Offs and Sacred Values
Interesting research: Psychologist Jeremy Ginges and his colleagues identified this backfire effect in studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2007. They...
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Disabling Cars by Remote Control
Who didn't see this coming? More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in...
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Casino Hack
Nice http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article/computer-experts-stole-
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Secret Questions
Interesting research: Analysing our data for security, though, shows that essentially all human-generated names provide poor resistance to guessing. For an attacker...
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USB Combination Lock
Here's a promotional security product designed by someone who knows nothing about security. The USB drive is "protected" by a combination lock. There are only...
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Typosquatting
"Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting," by Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman: Abstract. We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting",...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cipherlopods
This makes no sense to me, even though -- I suppose -- it's a squid cryptography joke.
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More Hollow Coins
A hollowed-out U.S. nickel can hold a microSD card. Pound and euro coins are also available. I blogged about this about a year ago as well.
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Wikibooks Cryptography Textbook
Over at Wikibooks, they're trying to write an open source cryptography textbook.
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Wanted: Trust Detector
It's good to dream: IARPA's five-year plan aims to design experiments that can measure trust with high certainty -- a tricky proposition for a psychological study...
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Nose Biometrics
Really: Since they are hard to conceal, the study says, noses would work well for identification in covert surveillance. The researchers say noses have been overlooked...
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The Limits of Identity Cards
Good legal paper on the limits of identity cards: Stephen Mason and Nick Bohm, "Identity and its Verification," in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number...
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