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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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A Status Report: "Liars and Outliers"
It's been a long hard year, but the book is almost finished. It's certainly the most difficult book I've ever written, mostly because I've had to learn academic...
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Risk Tolerance and Culture
This is an interesting study on cultural differences in risk tolerance. The Cultures of Risk Tolerance Abstract: This study explores the links between culture...
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TSA Administrator John Pistole on the Future of Airport Security
There's a lot here that's worth watching. He talks about expanding behavioral detection. He talks about less screening for "trusted travelers." So, what do the...
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Human Pattern-Matching Failures in Airport Screening
I've written about this before: the human brain just isn't suited to finding rare anomalies in a screening situation. The Role of the Human Operator in Image-Based...
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Risk Perception and Terrorism
I've been posting about a lot of academic articles of late, because that's what I'm reading. Here's another. Clinton M. Jenkin (2006), Risk Perception and Terrorism...
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More 9/11 Retrospectives
Joseph Stiglitz on the price of 9/11. How 9/11 changed surveillance. New scientific research as a result of 9/11. A good controversial piece. The day we lost...
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ACLU Report on the War on Terror
This report is really good: "A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11."
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Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Squid Drawings
From Italy. As before, use the comments to this post to write about and discuss security stories that don't have their own post.
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New Lows in Secret Questions
I've already written about secret questions, the easier-to-guess low-security backup password that sites want you to have in case you forget your harder-to-remember...
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The Legality of Government Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
Mason Rice, Robert Miller, and Sujeet Shenoi (2011), "May the US Government Monitor Private Critical Infrastructure Assets to Combat Foreign Cyberspace Threats?...
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Outing a CIA Agent
Interesting article on how difficult it is to keep an identity secret in the information age.
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Optimizing Airport Security
New research: Adrian J. Lee and Sheldon H. Jacobson (2011), "The Impact of Aviation Checkpoint Queues on Optimizing Security Screening Effectiveness," Reliability...
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Where Are All the Terrorists?
From Foreign Policy: "Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?" And from Stratfor: "Why al Qaeda is Unlikely to Execute Another 9/11." Me from May...
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Friday Squid Blogging: SQUIDS Game
It's coming to the iPhone and iPad, then to other platforms: In SQUIDS, players will command a small army of stretchy, springy sea creatures to protect an idyllic...
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The Efficacy of Post-9/11 Counterterrorism
This is an interesting article. The authors argue that the whole war-on-terror nonsense is useless -- that's not new -- but that the security establishment knows...
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A Professional ATM Theft
Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) lost $13M to an ATM theft earlier this year: KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered previously undisclosed details...
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Unredacted U.S. Diplomatic WikiLeaks Cables Published
It looks as if the entire mass of U.S. diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks had is available online somewhere. How this came about is a good illustration of how security...
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Forged Google Certificate
There's been a forged Google certificate out in the wild for the past month and a half. Whoever has it -- evidence points to the Iranian government -- can, if...
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Job Opening: TSA Public Affairs Specialist
This job can't be fun: This Public Affairs Specialist position is located in the Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs (SCPA), Transportation Security...
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