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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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New Windows Attack
It's still only in the lab, but nothing detects it right now: The attack is a clever "bait-and-switch" style move. Harmless code is passed to the security software...
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Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semi-Finalists
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
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Worst-Case Thinking
At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the...
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"If You See Something, Say Something"
That slogan is owned by New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (the MTA). Since obtaining the trademark in 2007, the authority has granted permission to use...
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Biometric Wallet
Cool idea, or dumb idea? Its features include: Fingerprint access only Bluetooth enabled for notification alerts
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SnapScouts
I sure hope this is a parody: SnapScouts Keep America Safe! Want to earn tons of cool badges and prizes while competing with you friends to see who can be the...
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9/11 Made us Safer?
There's an essay on the Computerworld website that claims I implied, and believe, so: OK, so strictly-speaking, he doesn't use those exact words, but the implication...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid isn't a Vicious Predator
New research shows that, even though it's 15 meters long, it's not the kraken of myth: Its large size and predatory nature fuelled the ancient myth of the underwater...
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I Was Named as One of the Top 10 Science and Technology Writers
Someone named me as one of the top 10 science and technology writers of all time. Flattering though it is, I don't think I belong in the company of Einstein, Newton...
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Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls
From the Forbes blog: In an annual report published Friday by the U.S. judicial system on the number of wiretaps it granted over the past year ..., the courts...
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Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
As the details of the Times Square car bomb attempt emerge in the wake of Faisal Shahzad's arrest Monday night, one thing has already been made clear: Terrorism...
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Preventing Terrorist Attacks in Crowded Areas
On the New York Times Room for Debate Blog, I -- along with several other people -- was asked about how to prevent terrorist attacks in crowded areas. This isCameras...
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Malcom Gladwell on Spies
Good quote: Translation: the proper function of spies is to remind those who rely on spies that the kinds of thing found out by spies can't be trusted. Nice...
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Security Analysis of India's Electronic Voting Machines
They're vulnerable to fraud.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Purity Test
I didn't know this: A Squid is a motorcycle rider who, experienced or not, rides outside his abilities and sets poor examples by attire, propriety, and general...
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