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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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Friday Squid Blogging: SQUIDS and Quantum Computing
It seems that quantum computers might use superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Unsafe Safes
In a long article about insecurities in gun safes, there's this great paragraph: Unfortunately, manufacturers and consumers are deceived and misled into a false...
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Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks
Horrific events, such as the massacre in Aurora, can be catalysts for social and political change. Sometimes it seems that they're the only catalyst; recall how...
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Court Orders TSA to Answer EPIC
Year ago, EPIC sued the TSA over full body scanners (I was one of the plantiffs), demanding that they follow their own rules and ask for public comment. The court...
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Hotel Door Lock Vulnerability
The attack only works sometimes, but it does allow access to millions of hotel rooms worldwide that are secured by Onity brand locks. Basically, you can read the...
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Profile on Eugene Kaspersky
Wired has an interesting and comprehensive profile on Eugene Kaspersky. Especially note Kaspersky Lab's work to uncover US cyberespionage against Iran, Kaspersky's...
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Lone Shooters and Body Armor
The new thing about the Aurora shooting wasn't the weaponry, but the armor: What distinguished Holmes wasn't his offense. It was his defense. At Columbine, Harris...
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Fake Irises Fool Scanners
We already know you can wear fake irises to fool a scanner into thinking you're not you, but this is the first fake iris you can use for impersonation: to fool...
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Hacking Tool Disguised as a Power Strip
This is impressive: The device has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi adapters, a cellular connection, dual Ethernet ports, and hacking and remote access tools that let security...
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Fear-Mongering at TED
This TED talk trots out the usual fear-mongering that technology leads to terrorism. The facts are basically correct, but there are no counterbalancing facts,...
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Detroit Bomb Threats
There have been a few hoax bomb threats in Detroit recently (Windsor tunnel, US-Canada bridge, Tiger Stadium). The good news is that police learned; during the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorstop
Now this is neat. 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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Liars and Outliers Summed Up in Two Comic Strips
I don't know the context, but these strips sum up my latest book nicely.
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Criminals Using Commercial Spamflooding Services
Cybercriminals are using commercial spamflooding services to distract their victims during key moments of a cyberattack. Clever, but in retrospect kind of obvious...
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Police Sting Operation Yields No Mobile Phone Thefts
Police in Hastings, in the UK, outfitted mobile phones with tracking devices and left them in bars and restaurants, hoping to catch mobile phone thieves in thestole...
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Making Handcuff Keys with 3D Printers
Handcuffs pose a particular key management problem. Officers need to be able to unlock handcuffs locked by another officer, so they're all designed to be opened...
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Implicit Passwords
This is a really interesting research paper (article here) on implicit passwords: something your unconscious mind remembers but your conscious mind doesn't know...
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How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre...
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