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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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Another Interview with Me
I gave this one two days ago, at the RSA Conference.
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Mariposa Botnet Shut Down
The Spanish police arrested three people in connection with the 13-million-computer Mariposa botnet.
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Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
On Tuesday, the White House published an unclassified summary of its Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). Howard Schmidt made the announcement...
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Crypto Implementation Failure
Look at this new AES-encrypted USB memory stick. You enter the key directly into the stick via the keypad, thereby bypassing any eavesdropping software on the...
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Tom Engelhardt on Fear on Terrorism
Nice essay. Similar sentiment from Newsweek.
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More on the Al-Madhouh Assassination
Interesting essay by a former CIA field officer on the al-Mabhouh assassination: The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh's assassination was conducted according to the book...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Homophone Lessons
Squids make great examples.
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Me on Surveillance Cameras
My fourth essay for CNN.com, on surveillance cameras. The Al-Mabhouh assassination made a nice news hook.
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Hitler and Cloud Computing
Funny video by Marcus Ranum and Gunnar Peterson.
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Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases
A Washington Post article concludes that small planes are not the next terror threat: Pilots of private planes fly about 200,000 small and medium-size aircraft...
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Remotely Spying on Kids with School Laptops
It's a really creepy story. A school issues laptops to students, and then remotely and surreptitiously turns on the camera. (Here's the lawsuit.) This is anLower...
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NSA Historical Documents
Just declassified: "A Reference Guide to Selected Historical Documents Relating to the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1931
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The Doghouse: Demiurge Consulting
They claim to be "one of the nation's only and most respected security and intelligence providers" -- I've never heard of them -- but their blog consists entirely...
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Mark Twain on Risk Analysis
From 1871: I hunted up statistics, and was amazed to find that after all the glaring newspaper headings concerning railroad disasters, less than three hundred...
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Another Debit Card Skimmer
This one is installed inside gas pumps. There's nothing the customer can detect.
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Cyber Shockwave Test
There was a big U.S. cyberattack exercise this week. We didn't do a This is, I think, an eyewitness report.
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Al-Mabhouh Assassination
It reads like a very professional operation: Security footage of the killers' movements during the afternoon, released by police in Dubai yesterday, underlines...
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