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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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Ray McGovern on Intelligence Failures
Good commentary from former CIA analyst Ray McGovern: The short answer to the second sentence is: Yes, it is inevitable that "certain plots will succeed." A more...
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$3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft
I've written about this sort of thing before: A robber bored a hole through the wall of jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth 300 million...
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Body Cavity Scanners
At least one company is touting its technology: Nesch, a company based in Crown Point, Indiana, may have a solution. It’s called diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging...
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Airplane Security Commentary
Excellent commentary from The Register: As the smoke clears following the case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the failed Christmas Day "underpants bomber" of Northwest...
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The Power Law of Terrorism
Research result #1: "A Generalized Fission-Fusion Model for the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks," by Aaron Clauset and Frederik W. Wiegel. Plot the number...
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The Comparative Risk of Terrorism
Good essay from the Wall Street Journal: It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but...
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My Second CNN.com Essay on the Underwear Bomber
This one is about our tendency to overreact to rare risks, and is an update of this 2007 essay. I think we should start calling them the "underpants of mass destruction...
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768-bit Number Factored
News: On December 12, 2009, we factored the 768-bit, 232-digit number RSA-768 by the number field sieve. The number RSA-768 was taken from the now obsolete RSA...
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Cybersecurity Theater at FOSE
FOSE, the big government IT conference, has a Cybersecurity Theater" this year. I wonder if they'll check the photo ID of everyone who tries to get in. On a similar...
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FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified USB Memory Stick Cracked
Kind of a dumb mistake: The USB drives in question encrypt the stored data via the practically uncrackable AES 256-bit hardware encryption system. Therefore, the...
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Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security
In the headlong rush to "fix" security after the Underwear Bomber's unsuccessful Christmas Day attack, there's far too little discussion about what worked and what...
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Gift Cards and Employee Retail Theft
Retail theft by employees has always been a problem, but gift cards make it easier: At the Saks flagship store in Manhattan, a 23-year-old sales clerk was caught...
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Nate Silver on the Risks of Airplane Terrorism
Over at fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver crunches the numbers and concludes that, at least as far as terrorism is concerned, air travel is safer than it's eververy...
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Another Contest: Fixing Airport Security
Slate is hosting an airport security suggestions contest: ideas "for making airport security more effective, more efficient, or more pleasant." Deadline is midday...
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David Brooks on Resilience in the Face of Security Imperfection
David Brooks makes some very good points in this New York Times op ed from last week: All this money and technology seems to have reduced the risk of future attack...
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TSA Logo Contest
Over at "Ask the Pilot," Patrick Smith has a great idea: Calling all artists: One thing TSA needs, I think, is a better logo and a snappy motto. Perhaps there's...
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