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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
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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Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket
Fascianting story: "Come on," Jillette said. "Steal something from me." Again, Robbins begged off, but he offered to do a trick instead. He instructed Jillette...
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Terms of Service as a Security Threat
After the Instagram debacle, where it changed its terms of service to give itself greater rights over user photos and reversed itself after a user backlash, it's...
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Friday Squid Blogging: William Gilly, Squid Researcher
Good article. 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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I Seem to Be a Verb
From "The Insider's TSA Dictionary": Bruce Schneiered: (V, ints) When a passenger uses logic in order to confound and perplex an officer into submission. Ex: "A...
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Becoming a Police Informant in Exchange for a Lighter Sentence
Fascinating article. Snitching has become so commonplace that in the past five years at least 48,895 federal convicts -- one of every eight -- had their prison...
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Breaking Hard-Disk Encryption
The newly announced ElcomSoft Forensic Disk Decryptor can decrypt BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt. And it's only $300. How does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk...
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Public Shaming as a Security Measure
In Liars and Outliers, I talk a lot about the more social forms of security. One of them is reputational. This post is about that squishy sociological security...
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Cryptography Engineering Available as an eBook
Finally, Cryptography Engineering is available as an ebook. Even better, it's today's deal of the day at O'Reilly: $27.50 (50% off) and no copy protection. (The...
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Hackers Use Backdoor to Break System
Industrial control system comes with a backdoor: Although the system was password protected in general, the backdoor through the IP address apparently required...
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Peruvian Spider Species Creates Decoys
Clyclosa spiders create decoys to fool predators.
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Phishing via Twitter
Interesting firsthand phishing story: A few nights ago, I got a Twitter direct message (DM) from a friend saying that someone was saying nasty things about me,...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Laughing Squid
The small San Francisco film and video company is celebrating its 17th anniversary. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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This Week's Overreactions
Schools go into lockdown over a thermometer, a car backfiring, a bank robbery a few blocks away, a student alone in a gym, a neighbor on the street, and some vague...
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Amazon Replacement-Order Scam
Clever: Chris Cardinal discovered someone running such a scam on Amazon using his account: the scammer contacted Amazon pretending to be Chris, supplying his billing...
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