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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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The Problem with Using the Cold War Metaphor to Describe Cyberspace Risks
Nice essay on the problems with talking about cyberspace risks using "Cold War" metaphors: The problem with threat inflation and misapplied history is that there...
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Terrorism in the U.S. Since 9/11
John Mueller and his students analyze the 33 cases of attempted terrorism in the U.S. since 9/11. So few of them are actually real, and so many of them were created...
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Funniest Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Nick Helm won an award for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Nick Helm: "I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and...
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Moving 211 Tons of Gold
The security problems associated with moving $12B in gold from London to Venezuela. It seems to me that Ch
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The Security Risks of Not Teaching Malware
Essay by George Ledin on the security risks of not teaching students malware.
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Stealing ATM PINs with a Thermal Camera
It's easy: Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal ATM PIN pads to test how effective they were at stealing PIN numbers...
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Smartphone Keystroke Logging Using the Motion Sensor
Clever: "When the user types on the soft keyboard on her smartphone (especially when she holds her phone by hand rather than placing it on a fixed surface), the...
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Security for Implanted Medical Devices
Worried about someone hacking your implanted medical devices? Here's a signal-jamming device you can wear.
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Cheating at Casinos with Hidden Cameras
Sleeve cameras aren't new, but they're now smaller than ever and the cheaters are getting more sophisticated: In January, at the newly opened $4-billion Cosmopolitan...
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Movie-Plot Threat: Open Airplane Cockpit Doors During Bathroom Breaks
James Fallows has a nice debunking of a movie-plot threat.
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How Microsoft Develops Security Patches
I thought this was an interesting read.
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Pseudonymity
Long essay on the value of pseudonymity. From the conclusions: Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren't ways to hide who yoube...
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Looking Backward at Terrorism
Nice essay on the danger of too much security: The great lie of the war on terror is not that we can sacrifice a little liberty for greater security. It is that...
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The Dilemma of Counterterrorism Policy
Any institution delegated with the task of preventing terrorism has a dilemma: they can either do their best to prevent terrorism, or they can do their best toA...
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Steven Pinker on Terrorism
It's almost time for a deluge of "Ten Years After 9/11" essays. Here's Steven Pinker: The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths...
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New Attack on AES
"Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES," by Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Christian Rechberger. Abstract. Since Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced...
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Alarm Geese
A prison in Brazil uses geese as part of its alarm system. There's a long tradition of this. Circa 400 BC, alarm geese alerted a Roman citadel to a Gaul attack...
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Security by Default
Nice essay by Christopher Soghoian on why cell phone and Internet providers need to enable security options by default.
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