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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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Bomb Threats As a Denial-of-Service Attack
The University of Pittsburgh has been the recipient of 50 bomb threats in the past two months (over 30 during the last week). Each time, the university evacuates...
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Brian Snow on Cybersecurity
Interesting video of Brian Snow speaking from last November. (Brian used to be the Technical Director of NSA's Information Assurance Directorate.) About a year...
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"Raise the Crime Rate"
I read this a couple of months ago, and I'm still not sure what I think about it. It's definitely of the most thought-provoking essays I've read this year. According...
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A Heathrow Airport Story about Trousers
Usually I don't bother posting random stories about dumb or inconsistent airport security measures. But this one is particularly interesting: "Sir, your trousers...
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Teenagers and Privacy
Good article debunking the myth that young people don't care about privacy on the Intenet. Most kids are well aware of risks, and make "fairly sophisticated" decisions...
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Laptops and the TSA
The New York Times tries to make sense of the TSA's policies on computers. Why do you have to take your tiny laptop out of your bag, but not your iPad? Their...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Art
Happy Easter. 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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A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response
The National Academies Press has published Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response. When a nation or region prepares...
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James Randi on Magicians and the Security Mindset
Okay, so he doesn't use that term. But he explains how a magician's inherent ability to detect deception can be useful to science. We can't make magicians out...
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JetBlue Captain Clayton Osbon and Resilient Security
This is the most intelligent thing I've read about the JetBlue incident where a pilot had a mental breakdown in the cockpit: For decades, public safety officials...
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The Battle for Internet Governance
Good article on the current battle for Internet governance: The War for the Internet was inevitable -- a time bomb built into its creation. The war grows out of...
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Lost Smart Phones and Human Nature
Symantec deliberately "lost" a bunch of smart phones with tracking software on them, just to see what would happen: Some 43 percent of finders clicked on an app...
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Law Enforcement Forensics Tools Against Smart Phones
Turns out the password can be easily bypassed: XRY works by first jailbreaking the handset. According to Micro Systemation, no
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Computer Forensics: An Example
Paul Ceglia's lawsuit against Facebook is fascinating, but that's not the point of this blog post. As part of the case, there are allegations that documents and...
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Buying Exploits on the Grey Market
This article talks about legitimate companies buying zero-day exploits, including the fact that "an undisclosed U.S. government contractor recently paid $250,000...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Hear
Interesting research: The squid use two closely spaced organs called statocysts to sense sound. "I think of a statocyst as an inside-out tennis ball," explains...
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Summer Schools in Cryptography and Software Security at Penn State
Normally I just delete these as spam, but this summer program for graduate students 1) looks interesting, and 2) has some scholarship money available.
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Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
As I posted previously, I have been debating former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley on the Economist website. I didn't bother reposting my opening statement and rebuttal...
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