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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 Inner Workings of an FBI Surveillance Device
This FBI surveillance device, designed to be attached to a car, has been taken apart and analyzed. A recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sous Vide
Yum: We learned to cook squid sous vide at 59
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Interview with Me About the Sony Hack
These are what I get for giving interviews when I'm in a bad mood. For the record, I think Sony did a terrible job with its customers' security. I also think...
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Drugging People and Then Robbing Them
This is a pretty scary criminal tactic from Turkey. Burglars dress up as doctors, and ring doorbells handing out pills under some pretense or another. They're...
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RFID Tags Protecting Hotel Towels
The stealing of hotel towels isn't a big problem in the scheme of world problems, but it can be expensive for hotels. Sure, we have moral prohibitions againstmore...
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"Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem"
This blog post by Richard Clayton is worth reading. If you have more time, there's 238-page report and a 31-page executive summary.
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Medieval Tally Stick Discovered in Germany
Interesting: The well-preserved tally stick was used in the Middle Ages to count the debts owed by the holder in a time when most people were unable to read or...
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The Era of "Steal Everything"
Good comment: "We're moving into an era of 'steal everything'," said David Emm, a senior security researcher for Kaspersky Labs. He believes that cyber criminals...
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Vulnerabilities in Online Payment Systems
This hack was conducted as a research project. It's unlikely it's being done in the wild: In one attack, Wang and colleagues used a plug-in for the Firefox web...
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Status Report: The Dishonest Minority
Three months ago, I announced that I was writing a book on why security exists in human societies. This is basically the book's thesis statement: All complex...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Noise Pollution and Squid
It literally blows holes in their heads: In the study, led by Michel Andr
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squids in Space
There are live squids on the last Endeavor mission.
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Forged Memory
A scary development in rootkits: Rootkits typically modify certain areas in the memory of the running operating system (OS) to hijack execution control from the...
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Stolen Camera Finder
Here's a clever Web app that locates your stolen camera by searching the EXIF data on public photo databases for your camera's serial number.
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Extreme Authentication
Exactly how did they confirm it was Bin Laden's body? Officials compared the DNA of the person killed at the Abbottabad compound with the bin Laden "family DNA"...
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Osama's Death Causes Spike in Suspicious Package Reports
It's not that the risk is greater, it's that the fear is greater. Data from New York: There were 10,566 reports of suspicious objects across the five boroughs...
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"Operation Pumpkin"
Wouldn't it be great if this were not a joke: the security contingency that was in place in the event that Kate Middleton tried to run away just before the wedding...
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Unintended Security Consequences of the New Pyrex Recipe
This is interesting: When World Kitchen took over the Pyrex brand, it started making more products out of prestressed soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate....
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