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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
Identifying People by their Writing Style
The article is in the context of the big Facebook lawsuit, but the part about identifying people by their writing style is interesting: Recently, a team of computer...
From Schneier on Security
Developments in Facial Recognition
Eventually, it will work. You'll be able to wear a camera that will automatically recognize someone walking towards you, and a microphone that will automatically...
From Schneier on Security
Attacking PLCs Controlling Prison Doors
Embedded system vulnerabilities in prisons: Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA Bitstream Encryption
It's a power-analysis attack, which makes it much harder to defend against. And since the attack model is an engineer trying to reverse-engineer the chip, it's...
From Schneier on Security
Using Science Fiction to Teach Computer Security
Interesting paper: "Science Fiction Prototyping and Security Education: Cultivating Contextual and Societal Thinking in Computer Security Education and Beyond,"...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 25-foot Giant Squid Caught in Fishing Net
A 25-foot (or maybe 23-foot) giant squid was caught off the coast of Florida. Also, I'm going to try something new. Let's use this weekly squid post to talk...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Apple Laptop Batteries
Interesting: Security researcher Charlie Miller, widely known for his work on Mac OS X and Apple's iOS, has discovered an interesting method that enables him to...
From Schneier on Security
ShareMeNot
ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on for preventing tracking from third-party buttons (like the Facebook "Like" button or the Google "+1" button) until the user actually...
From Schneier on Security
Data Privacy as a Prisoner's Dilemma
Good analysis: Companies would be better off if they all provided meaningful privacy protections for consumers, but privacy is a collective action problem for...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography and Wiretapping
Matt Blaze analyzes the 2010 U.S. Wiretap Report. In 2000, government policy finally reversed course, acknowledging that encryption needed to become a critical...
From Schneier on Security
Ars Technica on Liabilities and Computer Security
Good article: Halderman argued that secure software tends to come from companies that have a culture of taking security seriously. But it's hard to mandate, or...
From Schneier on Security
Duplicating Physical Keys from Photographs (Sneakey)
In this demonstration, researchers photographed keys from 200 feet away and then made working copies. From the paper: The access control provided by a physical...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Iris Scanning Technology
No indication about how well it works: The smartphone-based scanner, named Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, or MORIS, is made by BI2 Technologies...
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Revenge Effects of Too-Safe Playground Equipment
Sometimes too much security isn't good. After observing children on playgrounds in Norway, England and Australia, Dr. Sandseter identified six categories of risky...
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Smuggling Drugs in Unwitting People's Car Trunks
This is clever: A few miles away across the Rio Grande, the FBI determined that Chavez and Gomez were using lookouts to monitor the SENTRI Express Lane at the...
From Schneier on Security
Is There a Hacking Epidemic?
Freakonomics asks: "Why has there been such a spike in hacking recently? Or is it merely a function of us paying closer attention and of institutions being more...
From Schneier on Security
Google Detects Malware in its Search Data
This is interesting: As we work to protect our users and their information, we sometimes discover unusual patterns of activity. Recently, we found some unusual...
From Schneier on Security