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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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Lt. Gen. Alexander and the U.S. Cyber Command
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the current Director of NSA, has been nominated to head the US Cyber Command. Last week Alexander appeared before the Senate Armed Services...
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Life Recorder
In 2006, writing about future threats on privacy, I described a life recorder: A "life recorder" you can wear on your lapel that constantly records is still abeen...
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Fake CCTV Cameras
CCTV cameras in Moscow have been accused of streaming prerecorded video instead of live images. What I can't figure out is why? To me, it seems easier for the...
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Guns Painted to Look Like Toys
Last weekend I was in New York, and saw posters on the subways warning people about real guns painted to look like toys. And today I find these pictures from the...
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Security for Implantable Medical Devices
Interesting study: "Patients, Pacemakers, and Implantable Defibrillators: Human Values and Security for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices," Tamara Denning,Abstract...
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Storing Cryptographic Keys with Invisible Tattoos
This idea, by Stuart Schechter at Microsoft Research, is -- I think -- clever: Abstract: Implantable medical devices, such as implantable cardiac defibrillators...
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Matt Blaze Comments on his 15-Year-Old "Afterword"
Fifteen years ago, Matt Blaze wrote an Afterword to my book Applied Cryptography. Here are his current thoughts on that piece of writing.
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Externalities and Identity Theft
Chris Hoofnagle has a new paper: "Internalizing Identity Theft." Basically, he shows that one of the problems is that lenders extend credit even when credit applications...
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Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 2
John Adams argues that our irrationality about comparative risks depends on the type of risk: With "pure" voluntary risks, the risk itself, with its associated...
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Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 1
Nice analysis by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart: There is a general agreement about risk, then, in the established regulatory practices of several developed...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Againt SSL
Says Matt Blaze: A decade ago, I observed that commercial certificate authorities protect you from anyone from whom they are unwilling to take money. That turns...
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Makeup to Fool Face Recognition Software
An NYU student has been reverse-engineering facial recognition algorithms to devise makeup patterns to confuse face recognition software.
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Me in CRN
CRN Magazine named me as one of its security superstars of 2010.
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Schneier on "Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap"
Last month at the RSA Conference, I gave a talk titled "Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap." It was pretty good, but it was the first time I gave that talk...
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Cryptanalysis of the DECT
New cryptanalysis of the proprietrary encryption algorithm used in the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) standard for cordless phones. Abstract...
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The Effectiveness of Air Marshals
Air marshals are being arrested faster than air marshals are making arrests. Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air marshals than that story...
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