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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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The Bizarre Consequences of "Zero Tolerance" Weapons Policies at Schools
Good article: Zachary's offense? [He's six years old.] Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently...
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The Doghouse: Privacy Inside
I'm just going to quote without comment: About the file: the text message file encrypted with a symmetric key combine 3 modes 1st changing the original text...
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David Dittrich on Criminal Malware
Good essay: "Malware to crimeware: How far have they gone, and how do we catch up?" ;login:, August 2009: I have survived over a decade of advances in delivery...
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Wi-fi Blocking Paint
I wrote about this in 2004. This is an improved product: While paints blocking lower frequencies have been available for some time, Mr Ohkoshi's technology is...
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Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems
Pretty clever (for a pig, that is).
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1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
Yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the U.S. needed to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years. Bob Cringly doubts that there...
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The Futility of Defending the Targets
This is just silly: Beaver Stadium is a terrorist target. It is most likely the No. 1 target in the region. As such, it deserves security measures commensurate...
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Detecting Forged Signatures Using Pen Pressure and Angle
Interesting: Songhua Xu presented an interesting idea for measuring pen angle and pressure to present beautiful flower-like visual versions of a handwritten signature...
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Hotel Safe Scam
This is interesting: Since then, his scams have tended to take place in luxury hotels around the world. Typically, he would arrive at a hotel, claim to be a guest...
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Detecting People Who Want to Do Harm
I'm dubious: At a demonstration of the technology this week, project manager Robert P. Burns said the idea is to track a set of involuntary physiological reactions...
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Computer-Assisted Witness Identification
Witnesses are much more accurate at identifying criminals when computers assist in the identification process, not police officers. A major cause of miscarriages...
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Don't Let Hacker Inmates Reprogram Prison Computers
You'd think this would be obvious: Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to
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Malware that Forges Bank Statements
This is brilliant: The sophisticated hack uses a Trojan horse program installed on the victim's machine that alters html coding before it's displayed in the user's...
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UK Defense Security Manual Leaked
Wow. It's over 2,000 pages, so it'll take time to make any sense of. According to Ross Anderson, who's given it a quick look over, "it seems to be the bureaucratic...
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