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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
The Chaocipher
The Chaocipher is a mechanical encryption algorithm invented in 1918. No one was able to reverse-engineer the algorithm, given sets of plaintexts and ciphertexts...
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Serial Killers Are Now Terrorists
Try to keep up: Leslie Van Houten, a one-time member of Charles Manson's infamous 'family' is up for parole for the 17th time today.... "These are serial killers...
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Internet Kill Switch
Last month, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., introduced a bill that might -- we're not really sure -- give the president the authority to shut down all or portionsproposed...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sex Organs
Riddles of squid sex: All cephalopods are hindered by their body shape, which comprises a closed hood-type structure called a mantle, which forms most of what...
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TSA Blocks Access to Websites with "Controversial Opinions"
I wonder if my blog counts.
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Detecting Cheating at Colleges
The measures used to prevent cheating during tests remind me of casino security measures: No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student
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The Toronto 18
Long and interesting article from The Toronto Star on the Toronto 18, a terrorist cell arrested in 2006. Lots of stuff in this article I had not read before....
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Surveillance and Morality
"Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?": Conclusion The upshot of these reflections is that the relation between surveillance and moral edification is complicated...
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The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated
There's a power struggle going on in the U.S. government right now. It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert...
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"Don't Commit Crime"
This sign is from a gas station in the U.K. My first reaction was to laugh, but then I started thinking about it. We know that signs like "No Shoplifting"...
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Research Report on Cyberattack Capabilities
From the National Academies in 2009: Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities. It's 390 pages.
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Tracking Location Based on Water Isotope Ratios
Interesting: ...water molecules differ slightly in their isotope ratios depending on the minerals at their source. ...researchers found that water samples from...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Robots
Two of them; one was blogged about last year.
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Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now
This is from Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself, published in 1950: Of course, millions of us will go through our lives never seeing a spy or a saboteur...
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Cryptography Failure Story
By Russian spies: Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found...
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Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion
For a while now, I've pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website...
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Cryptography Success Story
From Brazil: the moral, of course, is to choose a strong key and to encrypt the entire drive, not just key files.
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Space Terrorism
Space terrorism? Yes, space terrorism. This article, by someone at the European Space Policy Institute, hypes a terrorst threat I've never seen hyped before....
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