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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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More on Heartbleed
This is an update to my earlier post. Cloudflare is reporting that its very difficult, if not practically impossible, to steal SSL private keys with this attack...
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Police Disabling Their own Voice Recorders
This is not a surprise: The Los Angeles Police Commission is investigating how half of the recording antennas in the Southeast Division went missing, seemingly...
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Heartbleed
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: "The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions...
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"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't
This headline is provocative: "Human biology inspires 'unbreakable' encryption." The article is similarly nonsensical: Researchers at Lancaster University, UK have...
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The Youngest Security Researcher
Five-year-old finds login vulnerability in Microsoft Xbox....
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Mass Surveillance by Eavesdropping on Web Cookies
Interesting research: Abstract: We investigate the ability of a passive network observer to leverage third-party HTTP tracking cookies for mass surveillance. If...
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Ephemeral Apps
Ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, Wickr and Frankly, all of which advertise that your photo, message or update will only be accessible for a short period...
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Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest
As you might expect, this year's contest has the NSA as the villain: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous surveillance...
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The Continuing Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
If you've been reading the news recently, you might think that corporate America is doing its best to thwart NSA surveillance. Google just announced that it is...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Encounter Between a Submersible Robot and a Giant Squid
Wow....
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Creating Forensic Sketches from DNA
This seems really science fictional: It's already possible to make some inferences about the appearance of crime suspects from their DNA alone, including their...
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NSA Hacks Huawei
Both Der Spiegel and the New York Times are reporting that the NSA has hacked Huawei pretty extensively, getting copies of the company's products' source code and...
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Password Hashing Competition
There's a private competition to identify new password hashing schemes. Submissions are due at the end of the month....
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Smarter People are More Trusting
Interesting research. Both vocabulary and question comprehension were positively correlated with generalized trust. Those with the highest vocab scores were 34...
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Giant Squid as an Omen
An omen of what? An increase in the number of giant squid being caught along the Sea of Japan coast is leading puzzled fishermen to fear their presence may be some...
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Geolocating Twitter Users
Interesting research into figuring out where Twitter users are located, based on similar tweets from other users: While geotags are the most definitive location...
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Automatic Face-Recognition Software Getting Better
Facebook has developed a face-recognition system that works almost as well as the human brain: Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person...
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