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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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Detecting Explosives
Really interesting article on the difficulties involved with explosive detection at airport security checkpoints. Abstract: The mid-air bombing of a Somali passenger...
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Identifying People from Their Metadata
Jonathan Mayer, Patrick Mutchler, and John C. Mitchell, "Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata": Abstract: Since 2013, a stream of disclosures...
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Primitive Food Crops and Security
Economists argue that the security needs of various crops are the cause of civilization size: The argument depends on the differences between how grains and tubers...
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More NSA Documents from the Snowden Archive
The Intercept is starting to publish a lot more documents. Yesterday they published the first year of an internal newsletter called SIDtoday, along with several...
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Unforeseen Costs of Security Training
At the last match of the year for Manchester United, someone found a bomb in a toilet, and security evacuated all 75,000 people and canceled the match. Turns out...
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Defeating a Tamper-Proof Bottle
Here's an interesting case of doctored urine-test samples from the Sochi Olympics. Evidence points to someone defeating the tamper-resistance of the bottles: Berlinger...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Counterfeit Squid
Goya is facing a $5 million lawsuit; the plaintiff is claiming its canned octopus is really squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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More on the Going Dark Debate
Lawfare is turning out to be the go-to blog for policy wonks about various government debates on cybersecurity. There are two good posts this week on the Going...
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Hacking Gesture-Based Security
Interesting research: Abdul Serwadda, Vir V. Phoha, Zibo Wang, Rajesh Kumar, and Diksha Shukla, "Robotic Robbery on the Touch Screen," ACM Transactions on Information...
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FTC Investigating Android Patching Practices
It's a known truth that most Android vulnerabilities don't get patched. It's not Google's fault. They release the patches, but the phone carriers don't push them...
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New Credit Card Scam
A criminal ring was arrested in Malaysia for credit card fraud: They would visit the online shopping websites and purchase all their items using phony credit card...
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Children of Spies
Fascinating story of Tim and Alex Foley, the children of Russian spies Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley....
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Economist Detained for Doing Math on an Airplane
An economics professor was detained when he was spotted doing math on an airplane: On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man -- with dark, curly hair, olive skin...
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NIST Starts Planning for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Last year, the NSA announced its plans for transitioning to cryptography that is resistant to a quantum computer. Now, it's NIST's turn. Its just-released report...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Firefly Squid in the News
It's a good time to see firefly squid in Japan. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
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Dilbert on Electronic Voting Machines
Accurate (the cartoon, not the machines)....
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White House Report on Big Data Discrimination
The White House has released a report on big-data discrimination. From the blog post: Using case studies on credit lending, employment, higher education, and criminal...
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Own a Pair of Clipper Chips
The AT&T TSD was an early 1990s telephone encryption device. It was digital. Voice quality was okay. And it was the device that contained the infamous Clipper Chip...
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