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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
Tracking Your Browser Without Cookies
How unique is your browser? Can you be tracked simply by its characteristics? The EFF is trying to find out. Their site Panopticlick will measure the characteristics...
From Schneier on Security
World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an...
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Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives
Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and...
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More Surveillance in the UK
This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of...
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Penny Shooter Business Card
Nice. Of course, this means that the TSA will start banning wallets on airplanes.
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The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected
The notion that U.S. intelligence should have "connected the dots," and caught Abdulmutallab, isn't going away. This is a typical example: So you'd need comeresponds...
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Me on Chinese Hacking and Enabling Surveillance
CNN.com just published an essay of mine on China's hacking of Google, an update of this essay.
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Transport Canada on its New Security Regulations
Okay, it's really the Rick Mercer Report.
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German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners
The video is worth watching, even if you don't speak German. The scanner caught a subject's cell phone and Swiss Army knife -- and the microphone he was wearing...
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ATM Skimmer
Neat pictures. I would never have noticed it, which is precisely the point.
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Wrasse Punish Cheaters
Interesting: The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) operates an underwater health spa for larger fish. It advertises its services with bright colours...
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Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees
I don't know if this is real, but it seems perfectly reasonable that all of Facebook is stored in a huge database that someone with the proper permissions can access...
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Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union
Interesting story: The phone's ringer is a pretty simple thing: there's a coil, a magnet and a hammer controlled by the magnet that hits the gongs when there is...
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Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction
Interesting: Any facility executive involved in the design of a new building would agree that security is one important goal for the new facility. These days,...
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Google vs. China
I'm not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I've previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja...
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Prison Escape Artist
Clever ruse: When he went to court for hearings, he could see the system was flawed. He would arrive on the twelfth floor in handcuffs and attached at the waist...
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