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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
Easily Cracking a Master Combination Lock
Impressive. Kamkar told Ars his Master Lock exploit started with a well-known vulnerability that allows Master Lock combinations to be cracked in 100 or fewer tries...
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Detecting QUANTUMINSERT
Fox-IT has a blog post (and has published Snort rules) on how to detect man-on-the-side Internet attacks like the NSA's QUANTUMINSERT. From a Wired article: But...
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Digital Privacy Public Service Announcement
I thought this was very well done....
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Ears as a Biometric
It's an obvious biometric for cell phones: Bodyprint recognizes users by their ears with 99.8% precision with a false rejection rate of only 1 out of 13. Grip,...
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Measuring the Expertise of Burglars
New research paper: "New methods for examining expertise in burglars in natural and simulated environments: preliminary findings": Expertise literature in mainstream...
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Protecting Against Google Phishing in Chrome
Google has a new Chrome extension called "Password Alert": To help keep your account safe, today we're launching Password Alert, a free, open-source Chrome extension...
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Remote Proctoring and Surveillance
Interesting article. There are a lot of surveillance and privacy issues at play here....
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Shaking Someone Down for His Password
A drug dealer claims that the police leaned him over an 18th floor balcony and threatened to kill him if he didn't give up his password. One of the policemen involved...
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Nice Essay on Security Snake Oil
This is good: Just as "data" is being sold as "intelligence", a lot of security technologies are being sold as "security solutions" rather than what they for the...
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The Further Democratization of Stingray
Stingray is the code name for an IMSI-catcher, which is basically a fake cell phone tower sold by Harris Corporation to various law enforcement agencies. (It's...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Unique Reproductive Habits of the Vampire Squid
Interesting: While most female squid and octopuses have just one reproductive cycle before they die, vampire squid go through dozens of egg-making cycles in their...
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Signed Copies of Data and Goliath
You can now order signed copies of Data and Goliath from my website....
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Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill on Obscurity
I think this is good: Obscurity means that personal information isn't readily available to just anyone. It doesn't mean that information is wiped out or even locked...
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The Further Democratization of QUANTUM
From Data and Goliath: ...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose...
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An Incredibly Insecure Voting Machine
Wow: The weak passwords -- which are hard-coded and can't be changed -- were only one item on a long list of critical defects uncovered by the review. The Wi-Fi...
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"Hinky" in Action
In Beyond Fear I wrote about trained officials recognizing "hinky" and how it differs from profiling: Ressam had to clear customs before boarding the ferry. He...
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Hacking Airplanes
Imagine this: A terrorist hacks into a commercial airplane from the ground, takes over the controls from the pilots and flies the plane into the ground. It sounds...
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