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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Lego Giant Squid Model
This is a fantastic Lego model of a space kraken attacking a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Tor Needs Bridges
The Internet anonymity service Tor needs people who are willing to run bridges. It's a goodness for the world; do it if you can.
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Cryptanalyst on British Postage Stamps
A 92-year-old World War II Bletchley Park codebreaker has had a set of commemorative stamps issued in his honor.
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Random Links on the Boston Terrorist Attack
Encouraging poll data says that maybe Americans are starting to have realistic fears about terrorism, or at least are refusing to be terrorized. Good essay byapologizes...
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Ellen on Protecting Passwords
Pretty good video. Ellen makes fun of the "Internet Password Minder," which is -- if you think about it -- only slightly different than Password Safe.
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More Plant Security Countermeasures
I've talked about plant security systems, both here and in Beyond Fear. Specifically, I've talked about tobacco plants that call air strikes against insects...
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The Police Now Like Amateur Photography
PhotographyIsNotACrime.com points out the obvious: after years of warning us that photography is suspicious, the police were happy to accept all of those amateur...
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Securing Members of Congress from Transparency
I commented in this article on the repeal of the transparency provisions of the STOCK Act: Passed in 2012 after a 60 Minutes report on insider trading practices...
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About Police Shoot Outs and Spectators
Hopefully this advice is superfluous for my audience, but it's so well written it's worth reading nonetheless: 7. SO, the bottom line is this: If you are in a...
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The Boston Marathon Bomber Manhunt
I generally give the police a lot of tactical leeway in times like this. The very armed and very dangerous suspects warranted extraordinary treatment. They were...
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Me at the Berkman Center
Earlier this month I spent a week at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talking to people about power, security, technology, and threats (details here...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Bike Rack
It's the first on this page. Apparently this is the finished version of the design I blogged about last year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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NSA Cryptography Course
This article, from some internal NSA publication, is about Lambros Callimahos, who taught an intensive 18-week course on cryptology for many years and died in 1977...
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The Nemim.gen Trojan
This clever piece of malware evades forensic examination by deleting its own components.
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Initial Thoughts on the Boston Bombings
I rewrote my "refuse to be terrorized" essay for the Atlantic. David Rothkoph (author of the great book Power, Inc.) wrote something similar, and so did John Cole...
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FBI and Cell Phone Surveillance
We're learning a lot about how the FBI eavesdrops on cell phones from a recent court battle.
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Google Glass Enables New Forms of Cheating
It's mentioned here: Mr. Doerr said he had been wearing the glasses and uses them especially for taking pictures and looking up words while playing Scattergories...
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