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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


How I Accidentally Helped Compromise the Secret Keys of High-Security Handcuffs
From ACM Opinion

How I Accidentally Helped Compromise the Secret Keys of High-Security Handcuffs

In the age of freely available modeling software, laser cutters and 3D printers, shapes that must stay secret for security's sake don't stay secret for long. Especially...

Meet 'rakshasa,' The Malware Infection Designed To Be ­ndetectable And Incurable
From ACM News

Meet 'rakshasa,' The Malware Infection Designed To Be ­ndetectable And Incurable

Malicious software, like all software, gets smarter all the time. In recent years it’s learned to destroy physical infrastructure, install itself through Microsoft...

Want To Find Jay-Z's Or Bill Gates' Private Jets? Openbarr Tracks 'untrackable' Flights
From ACM News

Want To Find Jay-Z's Or Bill Gates' Private Jets? Openbarr Tracks 'untrackable' Flights

Good news for paparazzi, stalkers, and corporate spies: "Private" jets are about to become significantly less private.

DARPA-Funded Researcher Can Take Over Android And Nokia Phones By Merely Waving Another Device Near Them
From ACM News

DARPA-Funded Researcher Can Take Over Android And Nokia Phones By Merely Waving Another Device Near Them

Smartphones' growing adoption of so-called "near field communications" promises to let the device in your pocket wirelessly make payments, beam info to other phones...

Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys
From ACM News

Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys

The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other...

A Robot's Breakfast
From ACM TechNews

A Robot's Breakfast

University of Maryland professor Robert Finkelstein is building a robot designed to provide its own fuel source by grabbing sticks and branches, sawing them into...
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