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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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Leaders Make Better Liars
According to new research: The researchers found that subjects assigned leadership roles were buffered from the negative effects of lying. Across all measures,...
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Jeremy Clarkson on Security Guards
Nice essay: Of course, we know why he's really there. He's really there so that if the bridge is destroyed by terrorists, the authorities can appear on the television...
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Master Thief
The amazing story of Gerald Blanchard. Thorough as ever, Blanchard had spent many previous nights infiltrating the bank to do recon or to tamper with the locks...
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Identifying People by their Bacteria
A potential new forensic: To determine how similar a person's fingertip bacteria are to bacteria left on computer keys, the team took swabs from three computer...
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Schneier Blogging Template
Eerily accurate: Catchy one-liner ("interesting," with link): In this part of the blog post, Bruce quotes something from the article he links to in the catchy...
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Hard Drives in Photocopy Machines
Modern photocopy machines contain hard drives that often have scans of old documents. This matters when an office disposes of an old copier. It also matters if...
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Side-Channel Attacks on Encrypted Web Traffic
Nice paper: "Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow," by Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kehuan Zhang. Abstract.explains...
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I'll be in Second Life Tonight
James Fallows and I are being interviewed in Second Life tonight, 9:00 PM Eastern Time.
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How to Become a Nuclear Power
Sarcastic, yet a bit too close to the truth.
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Natural Language Shellcode
Nice: In this paper we revisit the assumption that shellcode need be fundamentally different in structure than non-executable data. Specifically, we elucidate...
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Acrobatic Thieves
Some movie-plot attacks actually happen: They never touched the floor
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Dead on the No-Fly List
Such "logic": If a person on the no-fly list dies, his name could stay on the list so that the government can catch anyone trying to assume his identity. Butanyone's...
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New Book: Cryptography Engineering
I have a new book, sort of. Cryptography Engineering is really the second edition of Practical Cryptography. Niels Ferguson and I wrote Practical Cryptography...
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Electronic Health Record Security Analysis
In British Columbia: When Auditor-General John Doyle and his staff investigated the security of electronic record-keeping at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority...
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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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