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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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Skype Security Flaw
Just announced: The researchers found several properties of Skype that can track not only users' locations over time, but also their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing...
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Tagging People with Invisible Ink
In Montreal, police marked protesters with invisible ink to be able to identify them later. The next step is going to be a spray that marks people surreptitiously...
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Security Problems with U.S. Cloud Providers
Invasive U.S. surveillance programs, either illegal like the NSA's wiretapping of AT&T phone lines or legal as authorized by the PATRIOT Act, are causing foreign...
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Recent Developments in Full Disclosure
Last week, I had a long conversation with Robert Lemos over an article he was writing about full disclosure. He had noticed that companies have recently been reacting...
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GCHQ Hacking Contest
GCHQ is holding a hacking contest to drum up new recruits.
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Carrier IQ Spyware
Spyware on many smart phones monitors your every action, including collecting individual keystrokes. The company that makes and runs this software on behalf of...
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I Received an Honorary Doctorate
Last weekend, I received an honorary PhD from the University of Westminster, in London. I have had mixed feelings about this since I was asked early this year....
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Hacking Printers and Setting Them on Fire
It's the kind of research result that screams hype, but online attacks that have physical-world consequences are fundamentally a different sort of threat. I suspect...
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Walls as Security Theater
Interesting essay on walls and their effects: Walls, then, are built not for security, but for a sense of security. The distinction is important, as those whoas...
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Full-Disk Encryption Works
According to researchers, full-disk encryption is hampering police forensics. The authors of the report suggest there are some things law enforcement can do, but...
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Status Report: Liars and Outliers
After a long and hard year, Liars and Outliers is done. I submitted the manuscript to the publisher on Oct 1, got edits back from both an outside editor and a...
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Full Disclosure in Biology
The debate over full disclosure in computer security has been going on for the better part of two decades now. The stakes are much higher in biology: The virus...
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Bad CIA Operational Security
I have no idea if this story about CIA spies in Lebanon is true, and it will almost certainly never be confirmed or denied: But others inside the American intelligence...
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Security Systems as a Marker for High-Value Targets
If something is protected by heavy security, it's obviously worth stealing. Here's an example from the insect world: Maize plants, like many others, protect themselves...
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Shopper Surveillance Using Cell Phones
Electronic surveillance is becoming so easy that even marketers can do it: The cellphone tracking technology, called Footpath, is made by Path Intelligence Ltd...
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Spider Webs Contain Ant Poison
Shichang Zhang, Teck Hui Koh, Wee Khee Seah, Yee Hing Lai, Mark A. Elgar, and Daiqin Li (2011), "A Novel Property of Spider Silk: Chemical Defence Against Ants,"...
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The DHS Partners with Major League Soccer to Promote Fear
It seems to be harder and harder to keep people scared: The Department
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Art Conference
There was an interdisciplinary cephalopod art conference earlier this year, in Minneapolis. Videos of the conference are available online. As usual, you can also...
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