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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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Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
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Protecting Cars with The Club
From the Freakonomics blog: At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the Club...
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Behavioral Profiling at Airports
There's a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's...
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Mainstream Cost-Benefit Security Analysis
This essay in The New York Times is refreshingly cogent: You've seen it over and over. At a certain intersection in a certain town, there'll be an unfortunate...
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Ninth Workshop on Economics and Information Security
Earlier this week, the Ninth Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS 2010) was held at Harvard. As always, it was a great workshop with some veryliveblogged...
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Hiring Hackers
Any essay on hiring hackers quickly gets bogged down in definitions. What is a hacker, and how is he different from a cracker? I have my own definitions, but I'd...
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DARPA Research into Clean-Slate Network Security Redesign
This looks like a good research direction: Is it possible that given a clean slate and likely millions of dollars, engineers could come up with the ultimate in...
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Terrorists Placing Fake Bombs in Public Places
Supposedly, the latest terrorist tactic is to place fake bombs -- suspicious looking bags, backpacks, boxes, and coolers -- in public places in an effort to paralyze...
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Fear in a Political Ad
Carly Fiorina wants to scare Californians into voting for her. Yes, terrorists kill -- about as often as home appliances.
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Bletchley Park Archives to Go Online
This is good: Simon Greenish, chief executive officer of the Bletchley Park Trust, said the plan was for the centre's entire archive to be digitised. [...] He...
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How to Spot a CIA Officer
How to spot a CIA officer, at least in the mid 1970s. The reason the CIA office was located in the embassy -- as it is in most of the other countries in the world...
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The Four Stages of Fear
Interesting: In the throes of intense fear, we suddenly find ourselves operating in a different and unexpected way. The psychological tools that we normally use...
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World War II Sabotage Field Manual
The OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944.
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Intelligence Can Never Be Perfect
Go read this article -- "Setting impossible standards on intelligence" -- on laying blame for the intelligence "failure" that allowed the Underwear Bomber to board...
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