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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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Actual DHS Travel Record
If you were curious what the DHS knows about you.
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"Security Theater in New York City"
For the U.N. General Assembly: For those entranced by security theater, New York City is a sight to behold this week. A visit to one of the two centers of the...
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Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
This is interesting: Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal...
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Nice Use of Diversion During a Robbery
During a daring bank robbery in Sweden that involved a helicopter, the criminals disabled a police helicopter by placing a package with the word "bomb" near the...
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Reproducing Keys from Photographs
Reproducing keys from distant and angled photographs: Abstract:The access control provided by a physical lock is based on the assumption that the information content...
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Immediacy Affects Risk Assessments
New experiment demonstrates what we already knew: That's because people tend to view their immediate emotions, such as their perceptions of threats or risks, as...
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The Doghouse: Crypteto
Crypteto has a 49,152-bit symmetric key: The most important issue of any encryption product is the 'bit key strength'. To date the strongest known algorithm has...
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The Problem of Vague Laws
The average American commits three felonies a day: the title of a new book by Harvey Silverglate. More specifically, the problem is the intersection of vague laws...
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Predicting Characteristics of People by the Company they Keep
Turns out "gaydar" can be automated: Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends,...
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Unauthentication
In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it's passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something...
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Ass Bomber
Nobody tell the TSA, but last month someone tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum. He pretended to be a repentant militant...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 20-Foot Squid Caught in the Gulf of Mexico
First one sighted in the Gulf since 1954: The new specimen, weighing 103 pounds, was found during a preliminary survey of the Gulf during which scientists hope...
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Texas Instruments Signing Keys Broken
Texas Instruments' calculators use RSA digital signatures to authenticate any updates to their operating system. Unfortunately, their signing keys are too short...
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The Onion on Security
"Authorities Called in to Examine Suspicious-Looking Ham."
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Sears Spies on its Customers
It's not just hackers who steal financial and medical information: Between April 2007 and January 2008, visitors to the Kmart and Sears web sites were invitedSony...
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Monopoly Sets for WWII POWs: More Information
I already blogged about this; there's more information in this new article: Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in...
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Eliminating Externalities in Financial Security
This is a good thing: An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their...
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