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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Car-Key Copier
This< is neat: The Impressioner consists of a sensor that goes into the lock and sends information back to a computer via USB about the location of the lock's...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against Chip and PIN
Nice attack against the EMV -- Eurocard Mastercard Visa -- the "chip and PIN" credit card payment system. The attack allows a criminal to use a stolen card without...
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Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer
Really interesting reading. Scam-Detective: How did you find victims for your scams? John: First you need to understand how the gangs work. At the bottom are...
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Terrorists Prohibited from Using iTunes
The iTunes Store Terms and Conditions prohibits it: Notice, as I read this clause not only are terrorists -- or at least those on terrorist watch lists -- prohibited...
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All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register in South Carolina
This appears not to be a joke: The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act," passed last year and now officially on the books, states that "every member...
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Outguessing the Terrorists
Isn't it a bit embarrassing for an "expert on counter-terrorism" to be quoted as saying this? Bill Tupman, an expert on counter-terrorism from Exeter University...
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The Limits of Visual Inspection
Interesting research: Target prevalence powerfully influences visual search behavior. In most visual search experiments, targets appear on at least 50% of trials...
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More Details on the Chinese Attack Against Google
Three weeks ago, Google announced a sophisticated attack against them from China. There have been some interesting technical details since then. And the NSA is...
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New Attack on Threefish
At FSE 2010 this week, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolic presented a paper where they cryptanalyze ARX algorithms (algorithms that use only addition, rotation...
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Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee
This is unconscionable: At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair...
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World's Largest Data Collector Teams Up With Word's Largest Data Collector
Does anyone think this is a good idea? Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate...
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Security and Function Creep
Security is rarely static. Technology changes both security systems and attackers. But there
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Anonymity and the Internet
Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security. Anonymity is bad, the argument goes; and if we abolish it, we can ensure only...
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More Movie Plot Terrorist Threats
The Foreign Policy website has its own list of movie-plot threats: machine-gun wielding terrorists on paragliders, disease-laden insect swarms, a dirty bomb made...
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Online Credit/Debit Card Security Failure
Ross Anderson reports: Online transactions with credit cards or debit cards are increasingly verified using the 3D Secure system, which is branded as "Verified...
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