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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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Privacy and Control
In January, Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment...
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Detecting Being Watched
This seems like science fiction to me: The camera uses the same "red eye" effect of from camera flashes to project it hundreds of meters, allowing it to identify...
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"Protecting Europe Against Large-Scale Cyber-Attacks"
Report from the House of Lords in the UK (pdf version).
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iPhone Secret Decoder Ring
It'll protect your secrets from your kid sister, unless she's smarter than that. Looks cool, though.
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DHS Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge
This is a little hokey, but better them than the NSA: The National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge Competition is designed to solicit ideas from industry...
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Explosive Breast Implants -- Not an April Fool's Joke
Is MI5 playing a joke on us? Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies havecould...
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Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest
Once upon a time, men and women throughout the land lived in fear. This caused them to do foolish things that made them feel better temporarily, but didn't make...
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Security Cameras in the New York City Subways
The New York Times has an article about cameras in the subways. The article is all about how horrible it is that the cameras don't work: Moreover, nearly half...
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Should the Government Stop Outsourcing Code Development?
Information technology is increasingly everywhere, and it's the same technologies everywhere. The same operating systems are used in corporate and government computers...
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Leaders Make Better Liars
According to new research: The researchers found that subjects assigned leadership roles were buffered from the negative effects of lying. Across all measures,...
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Jeremy Clarkson on Security Guards
Nice essay: Of course, we know why he's really there. He's really there so that if the bridge is destroyed by terrorists, the authorities can appear on the television...
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Master Thief
The amazing story of Gerald Blanchard. Thorough as ever, Blanchard had spent many previous nights infiltrating the bank to do recon or to tamper with the locks...
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Identifying People by their Bacteria
A potential new forensic: To determine how similar a person's fingertip bacteria are to bacteria left on computer keys, the team took swabs from three computer...
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Schneier Blogging Template
Eerily accurate: Catchy one-liner ("interesting," with link): In this part of the blog post, Bruce quotes something from the article he links to in the catchy...
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Hard Drives in Photocopy Machines
Modern photocopy machines contain hard drives that often have scans of old documents. This matters when an office disposes of an old copier. It also matters if...
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Side-Channel Attacks on Encrypted Web Traffic
Nice paper: "Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow," by Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kehuan Zhang. Abstract.explains...
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