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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Thinking About Obscurity
This essay is worth reading: Obscurity is the idea that when information is hard to obtain or understand, it is, to some degree, safe. Safety, here, doesn't mean...
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TSA Removing Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners from U.S. Airports
This is big news: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSItwo...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Search for the Colossal Squid
Now that videographers have bagged a giant squid, the search turns to the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Against Browser Encryption
Last week, a story broke about how Nokia mounts man-in-the-middle attacks against secure browser sessions. The Finnish phone giant has since admitted that it decrypts...
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Essay on FBI-Mandated Backdoors
Good essay by Matt Blaze and Susan Landau.
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Cheating at Chess
There's a fascinating story about a probable tournament chess cheat. No one knows how he does it; there's only the facts that 1) historically he's not nearly as...
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Lexical Warfare
This essay, which uses the suicide of Aaron Swartz as a jumping off point for how the term "hactivist" has been manipulated by various powers, has this to say about...
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Anti-Surveillance Clothing
It's both an art project and a practical clothing line. ...Harvey's line of "Stealth Wear" clothing includes an "anti-drone hoodie" that uses metalized material...
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The Origins of War
Philosophy professor David Livingstone Smith on the origins of war.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Video
Last week, I blogged about an upcoming Discovery Channel program with actual video footage of a live giant squid. ABC News has a tantalizingly short sneak peak...
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Experimental Results: Liars and Outliers Trust Offer
Last August, I offered to sell Liars and Outliers for $11 in exchange for a book review. This was much less than the $30 list price; less even than the $16 Amazon...
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The Politics and Philosophy of National Security
This essay explains why we're all living in failed Hobbesian states: What do these three implications -- states have a great deal of freedom to determine what...
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Denial-of-Service Attack Against Facebook
Just claim the person is dead. All you need to do is fake an online obituary.
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Cat Smuggler
Not a cat burglar, a cat smuggler. Guards thought there was something suspicious about a little white cat slipping through a prison gate in northeastern Brazil...
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DHS Gets to Spy on Everyone
This Wall Street Journal investigative piece is a month old, but well worth reading. Basically, the Total Information Awareness program is back with a different...
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Details of an Internet Scam
Interesting details of an Amazon Marketplace scam. Worth reading. Most scams use a hook to cause a reaction. The idea being that if you are reacting, they get...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Finally Captured on Video
We'll see it later this month. 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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What Facebook Gives the Police
This is what Facebook gives the police in response to a subpoena. (Note that this isn't in response to a warrant; it's in response to a subpoena.) This might...
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Classifying a Shape
This is a great essay: Spheres are special shapes for nuclear weapons designers. Most nuclear weapons have, somewhere in them, that spheres-within-spheres arrangement...
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