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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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More "Liars and Outliers" Links
First, five new reviews of the book. Second, four new AV interviews about the book. Third, I take the Page 99 Test.
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On Cyberwar Hype
Good article by Thomas Rid on the hype surrounding cyberwar. It's well worth reading. And in a more academic paper, published in the RUSI Journal, Thomas Ridgeneric...
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A Negative Liars and Outliers Review
Ths person didn't like it at all. It'll go up on the book's webpage, along with all the positive reviews.
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The Security of Multi-Word Passphrases
Interesting research on the security of passphrases. From a blog post on the work: We found about 8,000 phrases using a 20,000 phrase dictionary. Using a very...
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Video Shows TSA Full-Body Scanner Failure
The Internet is buzzing about this video, showing a blogger walking through two different types of full-body scanners with metal objects. Basically, by placing...
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Jamming Speech with Recorded Speech
This is cool: The idea is simple. Psychologists have known for some years that it is almost impossible to speak when your words are replayed to you with a delay...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Can Dive to 1.5 km
Yet another impressive Humboldt squid feat: "We've seen them make really impressive dives up to a kilometre and a half deep, swimming straight through a zone where...
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Liars and Outliers: Book Excerpt
Gizmodo published the beginning of Chapter 17: the last chapter.
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Cloud Computing As a Man-in-the-Middle Attack
This essay uses the interesting metaphor of the man-in-the-middle attacker to describe cloud providers like Facebook and Google. Basically, they get in the middle...
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NSA's Secure Android Spec
The NSA has released its specification for a secure Android. One of the interesting things it's requiring is that all data be tunneled through a secure VPN: Inter...
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How Changing Technology Affects Security
Security is a tradeoff, a balancing act between attacker and defender. Unfortunately, that balance is never static. Changes in technology affect both sides. Society...
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The Keywords the DHS Is Using to Analyze Your Social Media Posts
According to this document, received by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is combing through the gazillions of...
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Themes from the RSA Conference
Last week was the big RSA Conference in San Francisco: something like 20,000 people. From what I saw, these were the major themes on the show floor: Companies...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Vision
Some squid can see aspects of light that are invisible to humans, including polarized light. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Liars and Outliers: The Big Idea
My big idea is a big question. Every cooperative system contains parasites. How do we ensure that society's parasites don't destroy society's systems? It's all...
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GPS Spoofers
Great movie-plot threat: Financial institutions depend on timing that is accurate to the microsecond on a global scale so that stock exchanges in, say, London...
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State Department Redacts Wikileaks Cables
The ACLU filed a FOIA request for a bunch of cables that Wikileaks had already released complete versions of. This is what happened: The agency released redacted...
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