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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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Wrasse Punish Cheaters
Interesting: The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) operates an underwater health spa for larger fish. It advertises its services with bright colours...
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Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees
I don't know if this is real, but it seems perfectly reasonable that all of Facebook is stored in a huge database that someone with the proper permissions can access...
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Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union
Interesting story: The phone's ringer is a pretty simple thing: there's a coil, a magnet and a hammer controlled by the magnet that hits the gongs when there is...
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Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction
Interesting: Any facility executive involved in the design of a new building would agree that security is one important goal for the new facility. These days,...
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Google vs. China
I'm not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I've previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja...
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Prison Escape Artist
Clever ruse: When he went to court for hearings, he could see the system was flawed. He would arrive on the twelfth floor in handcuffs and attached at the waist...
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Fixing Intelligence Failures
President Obama, in his speech last week, rightly focused on fixing the intelligence failures that resulted in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being ignored, rather than...
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Loretta Napoleoni on the Economics of Terrorism
Interesting TED talk: Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest...
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Ray McGovern on Intelligence Failures
Good commentary from former CIA analyst Ray McGovern: The short answer to the second sentence is: Yes, it is inevitable that "certain plots will succeed." A more...
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$3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft
I've written about this sort of thing before: A robber bored a hole through the wall of jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth 300 million...
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Body Cavity Scanners
At least one company is touting its technology: Nesch, a company based in Crown Point, Indiana, may have a solution. It’s called diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging...
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Airplane Security Commentary
Excellent commentary from The Register: As the smoke clears following the case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the failed Christmas Day "underpants bomber" of Northwest...
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The Power Law of Terrorism
Research result #1: "A Generalized Fission-Fusion Model for the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks," by Aaron Clauset and Frederik W. Wiegel. Plot the number...
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The Comparative Risk of Terrorism
Good essay from the Wall Street Journal: It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but...
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My Second CNN.com Essay on the Underwear Bomber
This one is about our tendency to overreact to rare risks, and is an update of this 2007 essay. I think we should start calling them the "underpants of mass destruction...
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768-bit Number Factored
News: On December 12, 2009, we factored the 768-bit, 232-digit number RSA-768 by the number field sieve. The number RSA-768 was taken from the now obsolete RSA...
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