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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Live Face-Off with Marcus Ranum at ISD
Here are the six links to the face-off Marcus Ranum and I did on stage at the Information Security Decisions conference in Chicago.
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MagnePrint Technology for Credit/Debit Cards
This seems like a solution in search of a problem: MagTek discovered that no two magnetic strips are identical. This is due to the manufacturing process. Similar...
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Australia Restores Some Sanity to Airport Screening
Welcome news: Carry-on baggage rules will be relaxed under a shake-up of aviation security announced by the Federal Government today. The changes will see passengers...
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The Politics of Power in Cyberspace
Thoughful blog post by The Atlantic's Marc Ainbinder: We allow Google, Amazon.com, credit companies and all manner of private corporations to collect intimateMy...
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Telcoms Security
A very good four-part series: "Risk and Security in the Telecommunications Industry."
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The U.S. Civil Rights Movement as an Insurgency
This is interesting: Most Americans fail to appreciate that the Civil Rights movement was about the overthrow of an entrenched political order in each of the Southern...
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U.S./Russia Cyber Arms Control Talks
Now this interesting: The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting...
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Me Speaking on "The Future of Privacy"
Video of the talk I gave to the Open Right Group last week in London.
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Obama's Cybersecurity Czar
Rumors are that RSA president Art Coviello declined the job. No surprise: it has no actual authority but a lot of responsibility. Security experts have pointed...
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Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities
Last month, researchers found a security flaw in the SSL protocol, which is used to protect sensitive web data. The protocol is used for online commerce, webmail...
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TSA Publishes Standard Operating Procedures
BoingBoing is pretty snarky: The TSA has published a "redacted" version of their s00per s33kr1t screening procedure guidelines (Want to know whether to frisk a...
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My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
Schmidt said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really...
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Emotional Epidemiology
This, from The New England Journal of Medicine, sounds familiar: This is the story line for most headline-grabbing illnesses
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Using Fake Documents to Get a Valid U.S. Passport
I missed this story: Since 2007, the U.S. State Department has been issuing high-tech "e-passports," which contain computer chips carrying biometric data to prevent...
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