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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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Criminals Stealing Cars by Calling Tow Trucks
It's a clever hack, but an old problem: the authentication in these sorts of normal operations isn't good enough to prevent abuse.
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Recently Declassified NSA History Document
"American Cryptography During the Cold War 1945-1989; Book IV: Cryptologic Rebirth 1981-1989." Document was first declassified in 2009. Here are some newly declassified...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Washes Ashore
A giant squid washed ashore in New South Wales.
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Interesting Research in Using Animals to Detect Substances
Fascinating research summarized in The Economist. Basically, detecting dogs respond to unconscious cues from their handlers, and generate false alarms becausebomb...
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Pickpockets are a Dying Breed
Pickpockets in America are dying out. This is the bit I found interesting: And perhaps most important, the centuries-old apprenticeship system underpinning organized...
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NIST SHA-3 News
NIST has finally published its rationale for selecting the five finalists.
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Erasing Data from Flash Drives
"Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives," by Michael Wei, Laura M. Grupp, Frederick E. Spada, and Steven Swanson. Abstract: Reliably erasing...
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Anonymous vs HBGary
One of the effects of writing a book is that I don't have the time to devote to other writing. So while I've been wanting to write about Anonymous vs HBGary, I...
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HBGary and the Future of the IT Security Industry
This is a really good piece by Paul Roberts on Anonymous vs. HBGary: not the tactics or the politics, but what HBGary demonstrates about the IT security industry...
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Good Article About the Terrorist Non-Threat
From Reason: Know thy enemy is an ancient principle of warfare. And if America had heeded it, it might have refrained from a full-scale "war" on terrorism whose...
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Susan Landau on Government Surveillance of the Internet
Excellent House testimony.
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Terrorist-Catching Con Man
Interesting story about a con man who conned the U.S. government, and how the government is trying to hide its dealings with him. For eight years, government officials...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Hearing
Interesting: Squid can hear, scientists have confirmed. But they don't detect the changes in pressure associated with sound waves, like we do. They have another...
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Biometric Wallet
Not an electronic wallet, a physical one: Virtually indestructible, the dunhill Biometric Wallet will open only with touch of your fingerprint. It can be linked...
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NIST Defines New Versions of SHA-512
NIST has just defined two new versions of SHA-512. They're SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256: 224- and 256-bit truncations of SHA-512 with a new IV. They've done this...
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Historical Study of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board
Recently declassified: "Historical Study: The National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board 1952
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Romanian Hackers
Interesting article from Wired: "How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central."
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