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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 Nemim.gen Trojan
This clever piece of malware evades forensic examination by deleting its own components.
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Initial Thoughts on the Boston Bombings
I rewrote my "refuse to be terrorized" essay for the Atlantic. David Rothkoph (author of the great book Power, Inc.) wrote something similar, and so did John Cole...
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FBI and Cell Phone Surveillance
We're learning a lot about how the FBI eavesdrops on cell phones from a recent court battle.
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Google Glass Enables New Forms of Cheating
It's mentioned here: Mr. Doerr said he had been wearing the glasses and uses them especially for taking pictures and looking up words while playing Scattergories...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Illegal Squid Fishing
While we we're on the subject of squid fishing in Argentina, the country is dealing with foreign boats illegally fishing for squid inside its territorial waters...
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Remotely Hijacking an Aircraft
There is a lot of buzz on the the Internet about a talk at the Hack-in-the Box conference by Hugo Teso, who claims he can hack in to remotely control an airplane's...
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Thieves Use Video Camera to Stake Out Properties
If the police can use cameras, so can the burglars.
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Security Externalities and DDOS Attacks
Ed Felten has a really good blog post about the externalities that the recent Spamhaus DDOS attack exploited: The attackers' goal was to flood Spamhaus or itswriting...
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Last Battle of Midway Cryptanalyst
The last cryptanalyst at the Battle of Midway, Rear Admiral Donald "Mac" Showers, USN-Ret, passed away 19 October 2012. His interment at Arlington National Cemetery...
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Nice Security Mindset Example
A real-world one-way function: Alice and Bob procure the same edition of the white pages book for a particular town, say Cambridge. For each letter Alice wants...
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Bitcoins in the Mainstream Media
Interesting article from the New Yorker. I'm often asked what I think about bitcoins. I haven't analyzed the security, but what I have seen looks good. The real...
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Elite Panic
I hadn't heard of this term before, but it's an interesting one. The excerpt below is from an interview with Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell...
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Government Use of Hackers as an Object of Fear
Interesting article about the perception of hackers in popular culture, and how the government uses the general fear of them to push for more power: But theseoverzealous...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Nighttime Squid Fishing Seen from Space
Page 18 of this thesis explains that squid fishing is done at night, and the lighting is so bright shows up in the satellite surveys of planetary lighting. This...
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Apple's iMessage Encryption Seems to Be Pretty Good
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has complained (in a classified report, not publicly) that Apple's iMessage end-to-end encryption scheme can't be broken. On the...
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Skein Collision Competition
Xkcd had a Skein collision competition. The contest is over -- Carnegie Mellon University won, with 384 (out of 1024) mismatched bits -- but it's explained here...
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IT for Oppression
Whether it's Syria using Facebook to help identify and arrest dissidents or China using its "Great Firewall" to limit access to international news throughout the...
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Narratives of Secrecy
How people talked about the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan project.
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