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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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Possible Government Demand for WhatsApp Backdoor
The New York Times is reporting that WhatsApp, and its parent company Facebook, may be headed to court over encrypted chat data that the FBI can't decrypt. This...
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Punishment and Trust
Interesting research: "Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness, by Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom,and David G. Rand, Nature:...
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Analysis of Yemeni Cell Phone Metadata
This research shows the power of cell phone metadata. From an article by the author: Yemen has experienced an array of violent incidents and political turmoil in...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scientists on Tumblr
Really great Tumblr feed. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
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Leaked ISIS Documents
Looks like tens of thousands of ISIS documents have been leaked. Where did they come from? We don't know: Documents listing the names of Islamic State fighters...
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Espionage Tactics Against Tibetans
A Citizen Lab research study of Chinese attack and espionage tactics against Tibetan networks and users. This report describes the latest iteration in a long-running...
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Hidden Credit Card Skimmers
New credit card skimmers are hidden inside the card readers, making them impossible to spot....
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Plagiarism in Crossword Puzzles
Yet another fraud discovered through data analysis....
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Hacking Ukraine's Power Grid
This is an excellent article on the December hack of Ukraine's power grid....
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Pirates Hack into Shipping Company's Database
A group of pirates -- the real kind -- determined which cargo to steal by hacking into a shipping company's database. Here's the report....
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Cheating at Professional Bridge
Interesting article on detecting cheaters in professional bridge using big-data analysis. Basically, a big part of the game is the communication of information...
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Interesting Research on the Economics of Privacy
New paper: "The Economics of Privacy, by Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor, and Liad Wagman: Abstract: This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Whale Mistaken for Squid
A purported giant squid that washed up on the shore in Norfolk, England, is actually a minke whale. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Sabotaging Bicycle Racks
This is the first time I've heard of this clever hack. Bicycle thieves saw through a bicycle rack and then tape it back together, so unsuspecting people chain their...
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Data Is a Toxic Asset
Thefts of personal information aren't unusual. Every week, thieves break into networks and steal data about people, often tens of millions at a time. Most of the...
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DROWN Attack
Earlier this week, we learned of yet another attack against SSL/TLS where an attacker can force people to use insecure algorithms. It's called DROWN. Here's a good...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Keyboards
Many wireless keyboards have a security vulnerability that allow someone to hack the computer using the keyboard-computer link. (Technical details here.) An attacker...
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The Mathematics of Conspiracy
This interesting study tries to build a mathematical model for the continued secrecy of conspiracies, and tries to predict how long before they will be revealed...
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Company Tracks Iowa Caucusgoers by their Cell Phones
It's not just governments. Companies like Dstillery are doing this too: "We watched each of the caucus locations for each party and we collected mobile device ID's...
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