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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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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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iPhone Secret Decoder Ring
It'll protect your secrets from your kid sister, unless she's smarter than that. Looks cool, though.
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DHS Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge
This is a little hokey, but better them than the NSA: The National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge Competition is designed to solicit ideas from industry...
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Explosive Breast Implants -- Not an April Fool's Joke
Is MI5 playing a joke on us? Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies havecould...
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Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest
Once upon a time, men and women throughout the land lived in fear. This caused them to do foolish things that made them feel better temporarily, but didn't make...
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Security Cameras in the New York City Subways
The New York Times has an article about cameras in the subways. The article is all about how horrible it is that the cameras don't work: Moreover, nearly half...
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