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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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Laissez-Faire Access Control
Recently I wrote about the difficulty of making role-based access control work, and how reasearch at Dartmouth showed that it was better to let people take theThis...
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The Doghouse: ADE 651
A divining rod to find explosives in Iraq: ATSC’s promotional material claims that its device can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies and even...
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The Problems with Unscientific Security
From the Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology, by a whole llist of authors: "A Call for Evidence-Based Security Tools": Abstract: Since the 2001 attacks...
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Mossad Hacked Syrian Official's Computer
It was unattended in a hotel room at the time: Israel's Mossad espionage agency used Trojan Horse programs to gather intelligence about a nuclear facility in Syria...
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Fear and Overreaction
It's hard work being prey. Watch the birds at a feeder. They're constantly on alert, and will fly away from food -- from easy nutrition -- at the slightest movement...
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Zero-Tolerance Policies
Recent stories have documented the ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping...
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Detecting Terrorists by Smelling Fear
Really: The technology relies on recognising a pheromone - or scent signal - produced in sweat when a person is scared. Researchers hope the ''fear detector''...
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The FBI and Wiretaps
To aid their Wall Street investigations, the FBI used DCSNet, their massive surveillance system. Prosecutors are using the FBI's massive surveillance system, DCSNet...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid in Canada
They're washing ashore on Vancouver Island. Scientists have begun attaching tracking devices to squid off the coast of Vancouver Island to find out why the marine...
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Attacking U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Squirrel terrorists. We have a cognitive bias to exaggerate risks caused by other humans, and downplay risks caused by animals (and, even more, by natural phenomena...
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Report on Chinese Cyberwarfare Capability
"Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation," prepared for the US-China Economic and Security Review...
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DDNI for Collection Press Conference
The U.S. Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection gives a press conference on the new Utah data collection facility: video and transcript.
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A Critical Essay on the TSA
A critical essay on the TSA from a former assistant police chief: This is where I find myself now obsessing over TSA policy, or its apparent lack. Every one of...
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Best Buy Sells Surveillance Tracker
Only $99.99: Keep tabs on your child at all times with this small but sophisticated device that combines GPS and cellular technology to provide you with real-time...
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Psychology and Security Resource Page
Ross Anderson has put together a great resource page on security and psychology: At a deeper level, the psychology of security touches on fundamental scientific...
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2006 Wal-Mart Hack
Interesting story of a 2006 Wal-Mart hack from, probably, Minsk.
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