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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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FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified USB Memory Stick Cracked
Kind of a dumb mistake: The USB drives in question encrypt the stored data via the practically uncrackable AES 256-bit hardware encryption system. Therefore, the...
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Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security
In the headlong rush to "fix" security after the Underwear Bomber's unsuccessful Christmas Day attack, there's far too little discussion about what worked and what...
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Gift Cards and Employee Retail Theft
Retail theft by employees has always been a problem, but gift cards make it easier: At the Saks flagship store in Manhattan, a 23-year-old sales clerk was caught...
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Nate Silver on the Risks of Airplane Terrorism
Over at fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver crunches the numbers and concludes that, at least as far as terrorism is concerned, air travel is safer than it's eververy...
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Another Contest: Fixing Airport Security
Slate is hosting an airport security suggestions contest: ideas "for making airport security more effective, more efficient, or more pleasant." Deadline is midday...
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David Brooks on Resilience in the Face of Security Imperfection
David Brooks makes some very good points in this New York Times op ed from last week: All this money and technology seems to have reduced the risk of future attack...
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TSA Logo Contest
Over at "Ask the Pilot," Patrick Smith has a great idea: Calling all artists: One thing TSA needs, I think, is a better logo and a snappy motto. Perhaps there's...
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Breaching the Secure Area in Airports
An unidentified man breached airport security at Newark Airport on Sunday, walking into the secured area through the exit, prompting an evacuation of a terminal...
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Me on Airport Security Profiling
Yesterday I participated in a "Room for Debate" discussion on airport security profiling. Nothing I haven't said before.
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Matt Blaze on the New "Unpredictable" TSA Screening Measures
Interesting: "Unpredictable" security as applied to air passenger screening means that sometimes (perhaps most of the time), certain checks that might detect terrorist...
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Adopting the Israeli Airport Security Model
I've been reading a lot recently -- like this one on the Israeli airport security model, and how we should adopt more of the Israeli security model here in theThis...
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Vatican Admits Perfect Security is Both Impossible and Undesirable
This is refreshing: Father Lombardi said it was not realistic to think the Vatican could ensure 100% security for the Pope and that security guards appeared to...
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Christmas Bomber: Where Airport Security Worked
With all the talk about the failure of airport security to detect the PETN that the Christmas bomber sewed into his underwear -- and to think I've been using the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ski Mask
You probably can't walk into a bank wearing this.
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Quantum Cryptography Cracked
Impressive: This presentation will show the first experimental implementation of an eavesdropper for quantum cryptosystem. Although quantum cryptography has been...
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Me and the Christmas Underwear Bomber
I spent a lot of yesterday giving press interviews. Nothing I haven
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Change Blindness
Interesting video demonstrating change blindness: the human brain's tendency to ignore major visual changes. The implications for security are pretty serious. ...
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"The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information"
Good survey article by Alessandro Acquisti in IEEE Computer.
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