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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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PlugBot
Interesting: PlugBot is a hardware bot. It's a covert penetration testing device designed for use during physical penetration tests. PlugBot is a tiny computer...
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Cyberwar Movie Plot from an Actual Thriller Writer
It could make a good movie.
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Interview with the European Union Privacy Chief
Interesting interview with Viviane Reding, the vice president of the EU Justice Commission and head of privacy regulation: The basic values in Europe are that...
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Interview with TSA Administrator John Pistole
He's more realistic than one normally hears: So if they get through all those defenses, they get to Reagan [National Airport] over here, and they've got an underwear...
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Adam Shostack on TSA Threat Modeling
Good commentary: I've said before and I'll say again, there are lots of possible approaches to threat modeling, and they all involve tradeoffs. I've commentedthe...
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Recording the Police
I've written a lot on the "War on Photography," where normal people are harassed as potential terrorists for taking pictures of things in public. This article...
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Book Review: Cyber War
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About It by Richard Clarke and Robert Knake, HarperCollins, 2010. Cyber War is a fast and enjoyable...
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Computational Forensics
Interesting article from IEEE Spectrum: During two years of deliberation by the National Academy's forensic science committee (of which I was a member), a troubling...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Prosthetic Tentacle
Impressive: Designed for a class project while getting her degree at the Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington, Kaylene Kau has not only...
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Hiding PETN from Full-Body Scanners
From the Journal of Transporation Security, "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," by Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson...
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Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD?
It has been accused of it. I doubt this is true. One, it's a very risky thing to do. And two, there are more than enough exploitable security vulnerabilities...
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Fake Amazon Receipt Generators
They can be used to scam Amazon Marketplace merchants: What happens once our scammer is armed with his fake receipt? Well, many sellers on Amazon will ask you...
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Security in 2020
There’s really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You’re secure from something or against something...
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Realistic Masks
They're causing problems: A white bank robber in Ohio recently used a "hyper-realistic" mask manufactured by a small Van Nuys company to disguise himself as a...
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