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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
High School Teacher Assigns Movie-Plot Threat Contest Problem
In Australia: A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible had no intent to promote...
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Misidentification and the Court System
Chilling: How do most wrongful convictions come about? The primary cause is mistaken identification. Actually, I wouldn't call it mistaken identification; I'd...
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Security Theater on the Boston T
Since a fatal crash a few years ago, Boston T (their subway) operators have been forbidden from using -- or even having -- cell phones while on the job. Passengers...
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Me at the EastWest Institute
Back in May, I attended the EastWest Institute's First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas. I only had eight minutes to speak, and tried to turn the dialog...
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Is the Whole Country an Airport Security Zone?
Full-body scanners in roving vans: American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more...
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Detecting Deception in Conference Calls
Research paper: Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls, by David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. Abstract: We estimate classification models...
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Social Steganography
From danah boyd: Carmen is engaging in social steganography. She's hiding information in plain sight, creating a message that can be read in one way by those who...
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Skeletal Identification
And you thought fingerprints were intrusive. The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures...
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Malware Contributory Cause of Air Crash
This is a first, I think: The airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
Who knew? "Hulse was shooting with burst mode on his camera, so I know exactly what the interval is between the frames and I can calculate velocity of squid flying...
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Intel Buys McAfee
Intel McAfee. It's another example of a large non-security company buying a security company. I've been talking about this sort of thing for two and a half years...
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"The Fear Tax"
Good essay by Seth Godin: We pay the fear tax every time we spend time or money seeking reassurance. We pay it twice when the act of seeking that reassurance actually...
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Crypto 2010 Proceedings
The Crypto 2010 Conference is going on right now at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Springer-Verlag publishes the proceedings, but they're available...
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Hacking Cars Through Wireless Tire-Pressure Sensors
Still minor, but this kind of thing is only going to get worse: The new research shows that other systems in the vehicle are similarly insecure. The tire pressure...
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Breaking into a Garage
In seconds. Garage doors with automatic openers have always seemed like a lot of security theater to me.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Computer Virus
It wasn't me: A hardened computer hacker has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that systematically destroys all the files on victims' PCs...
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Cloning Retail Gift Cards
Clever attack. After researching how gift cards work, Zepeda purchased a magnetic card reader online, began stealing blank gift cards, on display for purchase,...
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Security Analysis of Smudges on Smart Phone Touch Screens
"Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens": Abstract: Touch screens are an increasingly common feature on personal computing devices, especially smartphones...
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