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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Draw-a-Squid Contest
Draw a squid, win Jeff Vandermeer`s Ambergris novels.
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"Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives
Earlier this month, Joanna Rutkowska implemented the "evil maid" attack against TrueCrypt. The same kind of attack should work against any whole-disk encryption...
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James Bamford on the NSA
James Bamford -- author of The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America writes about the NSA's new data center in Utah as he reviews another...
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Ballmer Blames the Failure of Windows Vista on Security
According to the Telegraph: Mr Ballmer said: "We got some uneven reception when [Vista] first launched in large part because we made some design decisions to improve...
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Australia Man Receives Reduced Sentence Due to Encryption
From the Courier-Mail: A man who established a sophisticated network of peepholes and cameras to spy on his flatmates has escaped a jail sentence after police...
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TSA Successfully Defends Itself
Story here. Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying...
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Computer Card Counter Detects Human Card Counters
All it takes is a computer that can track every card: The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "count" of the cards...
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Six Years of Patch Tuesdays
Nice article summing up six years of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays: The total number of flaws disclosed and patched by the software maker so far this year stands at...
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Helpful Hint for Fugitives: Don't Update Your Location on Facebook
"Fugitive caught after updating his status on Facebook." It's easy to say "so dumb," and it would be true, but what's interesting is how people just don't think...
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The Commercial Speech Arms Race
A few years ago, a company began to sell a liquid with identification codes suspended in it. The idea was that you would paint it on your stuff as proof of ownership...
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The Bizarre Consequences of "Zero Tolerance" Weapons Policies at Schools
Good article: Zachary's offense? [He's six years old.] Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently...
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The Doghouse: Privacy Inside
I'm just going to quote without comment: About the file: the text message file encrypted with a symmetric key combine 3 modes 1st changing the original text...
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David Dittrich on Criminal Malware
Good essay: "Malware to crimeware: How far have they gone, and how do we catch up?" ;login:, August 2009: I have survived over a decade of advances in delivery...
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