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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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The Onion on Browser Security
Wise advice: At Chase Bank, we recognize the value of online banking -- it’s quick, convenient, and available any time you need it. Unfortunately, though, the...
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Mail Cover
From a FOIAed Department of Transportation document on investigative techniques: A "mail cover" is the process by which the U.S. Postal Service records any data...
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The Economist on Guantanamo
Maybe the tide is turning: America is in a hole. The last response of the blowhards and cowards who have put it there is always: "So what would you do: set them...
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Reidentifying Anonymous Data
Latanya Sweeney has demonstrated how easy it can be to identify people from their birth date, gender, and zip code. The anonymous data she reidentified happened...
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Evacuation Alerts at the Airport
Last week, an employee error caused the monitors at LAX to display a building evacuation order: At a little before 9:47 p.m., the message read: "An emergency has...
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Is the U.S. Government Recording and Saving All Domestic Telephone Calls?
I have no idea if "former counterterrorism agent for the FBI" Tom Clemente knows what he's talking about, but that's certainly what he implies here: More recently...
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Intelligence Analysis and the Connect-the-Dots Metaphor
The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings. How could they have...
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Michael Chertoff on Google Glass
Interesting op-ed by former DHS head Michael Chertoff on the privacy risks of Google Glass. Now imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing...
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Honeywords
Here is a simple but clever idea. Seed password files with dummy entries that will trigger an alarm when used. That way a site can know when a hacker is trying...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Escape Artist
It's amazing how small a hole he can fit through. 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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Another WWII Message Decoded
It's a really interesting code and story. (The first link has the most detailed information about the code and the cryptanalysis.)
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The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
Our government collects a lot of information about us. Tax records, legal records, license records, records of government services received-- it's all in databases...
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Risks of Networked Systems
Interesting research: Helbing's publication illustrates how cascade effects and complex dynamics amplify the vulnerability of networked systems. For example, just...
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More on FinSpy/FinFisher
FinFisher (also called FinSpy) is a commercially sold spyware package that is used by governments world-wide, including the U.S. There's a new report that hasbunch...
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Google Pays $31,000 for Three Chrome Vulnerabilities
Google is paying bug bounties. This is important; there's a market in vulnerabilities that provides incentives for their being kept secret and exploitable; for...
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Details of a Cyberheist
Really interesting article detailing how criminals steal from a company's accounts over the Internet. The costly cyberheist was carried out with the help of nearly...
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The Importance of Backups
I've already written about the guy who got a new trial because a virus ate his court records. Here's someone who will have to redo his thesis research because...
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Pinging the Entire Internet
Turns out there's a lot of vulnerable systems out there: Many of the two terabytes (2,000 gigabytes) worth of replies Moore received from 310 million IPs indicated...
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More Links on the Boston Terrorist Attacks
Max Abrahms has two sensible essays. Probably the ultimate in security theater: Williams-Sonoma stops selling pressure cookers "out of respect." They say it's...
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