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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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Surviving a Terrorist's Nuclear Attack
Interesting reading, mostly for the probable effects of a terrorist-sized nuclear bomb. A terrorist bomb is likely to be relatively small -- possibly only a fraction...
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Stealing SIM Cards from Traffic Lights
Johannesburg installed hundreds of networked traffic lights on its streets. The lights use a cellular modem and a SIM card to communicate. Those lights introduced...
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The Security Threat of Forged Law-Enforcement Credentials
Here's a U.S. Army threat assessment of forged law-enforcement credentials. The authors bought a bunch of fake badges: Between November 2009 and March 2010, undercover...
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Attacking High-Frequency Trading Networks
Turns out you can make money by manipulating the network latency. cPacket has developed a proof of concept showing that these side-channel attacks can be usedthis...
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"Homeland Security Hasn't Made Us Safer"
This will be nothing new to readers of this blog, but it's nice to read other people saying it too.
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James Fallows on Political Shootings
Interesting: So the train of logic is: anything that can be called an "assassination" is inherently political; very often the "politics" are obscure, personal...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever
It's an oil field: Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed Wednesday that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude...
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The Social Dynamics of Terror
Good essay: Nineteenth-century anarchists promoted what they called the "propaganda of the deed," that is, the use of violence as a symbolic action to make a larger...
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SMS of Death
This will be hard to fix: Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications
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Sony PS3 Security Broken
Sony used an ECDSA signature scheme to protect the PS3. Trouble is, they didn't pay sufficient attention to their random number generator.
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Eavesdropping on GSM Calls
It's easy and cheap: Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping...
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Guard Towers at WalMart
This feels very creepy and police-state-like. What on earth could WalMart be worried about?
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Polar Bears Destroying Hidden Cameras
Watch the video. What valuable security lessons does this teach? EDITED TO ADD (1/3): And why aren't the polar bears destroying the hidden cameras that are...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Skin
DoD awarded a $6M grant to study squid skin: "Our internal nickname for this project is 'squid skin,' but it is really about fundamental research," said Naomi...
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TSA Inspecting Thermoses
This is new: Adm. James Winnefeld told The Associated Press Friday that the Transportation Security Administration is "always trying to think ahead." Winnefeld...
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Terrorism Reading List
Interesting interview, discussing five books (none of which I've read, by the way).
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An Honest Privacy Policy
Funny: The data we collect is strictly anonymous, unless you've been kind enough to give us your name, email address, or other identifying information. And even...
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