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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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New, Undeletable, Web Cookie
A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s mostfinally...
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Interview with Me
Here's an interview with me from the Homeland Security News Wire.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Painted on Canal Narrowboat
Pretty. 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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Liars and Outliers Cover
My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the...
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Rat that Applies Poison to its Fur
The African crested rat applies tree poison to its fur to make itself more deadly. The researchers made their discovery after presenting a wild-caught crestedAcokanthera...
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Counterfeit Pilot IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security
This seems like a really bad idea: ...the Transportation Security Administration began a program Tuesday allowing pilots to skirt the security-screening process...
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Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
"Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can
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GPRS Hacked
Just announced: Nohl's group found a number of problems with GPRS. First, he says, lax authentication rules could allow an attacker to set up a fake cellular base...
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"Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks"
I'm a big fan of taxonomies, and this -- from Carnegie Mellon -- seems like a useful one: The taxonomy of operational cyber security risks, summarized in Table...
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Free-Riding on Plant Security Countermeasures
There's a security story from biology I've used a few times: plants that use chemicals to call in airstrikes by wasps on the herbivores attacking them. This is...
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MRI Lie Detectors
An article from Salon -- lots of interesting research. My previous blog post on the topic.
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Business Week on The Cyberwar Arms Race
I've been using the phrase "arms race" to describe the world's militaries' rush into cyberspace for a couple of years now. Here's a good article on the topic that...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Severed Hand is Actually A Dried Squid
I just can't make this stuff up: A report of a severed hand found at an Oahu seabird sanctuary has turned out to be dried squid. Remember: if you see something...
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Zodiac Cipher Cracked
I admit I don't pay much attention to pencil-and-paper ciphers, so I knew nothing about the Zodiac cipher. Seems it has finally been broken: The Zodiac Killer...
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German Police Call Airport Full-Body Scanners Useless
I'm not surprised: The weekly Welt am Sonntag, quoting a police report, said 35 percent of the 730,000 passengers checked by the scanners set off the alarm more...
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Hacking Lotteries
Two items on hacking lotteries. The first is about someone who figured out how to spot winner in a scratch-of tic-tac-toe style game, and a daily draw style game...
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