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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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Hacking Trial Breaks D.C. Internet Voting System
Sounds like it was easy: Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, inviting computer...
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The Politics of Allocating Homeland Security Money to States
From the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: "Politics or Risks? An Analysis of Homeland Security Grant Allocations to the States." Abstract...
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Stuxnet
Computer security experts are often surprised at which stories get picked up by the mainstream media. Sometimes it makes no sense. Why this particular data breach...
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Putting Unique Codes on Objects to Detect Counterfeiting
This will help some. At least two rival systems plan to put unique codes on packages containing antimalarials and other medications. Buyers will be able to text...
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Analyzing CAPTCHAs
New research: "Attacks and Design of Image Recognition CAPTCHAs." Abstract. We systematically study the design of image recognition CAPTCHAs (IRCs) in this paper...
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Sky Marshals Flying First Class
I regularly say that security decisions are primarily made for non-security reasons. This article about the placement of sky marshals on airplanes is an excellent...
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Monitoring Employees' Online Behavior
Not their online behavior at work, but their online behavior in life. Using automation software that slogs through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn...
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My Recording Debut
Okay, so this isn't a normal blog post. It's not about security. I've been playing doumbek with a band at the Minneapolis Renaissance Festival called Brother...
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Me on Cyberwar
During the cyberwar debate a few months ago, I said this: If we frame this discussion as a war discussion, then what you do when there's a threat of war is you...
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Master's Theses in Homeland Security
This is a list of master's theses from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this year. Some interesting stuff in there....
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Wiretapping the Internet
On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies...
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NSA Publications
There is an interesting list of NSA publications in this document, pages 30
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Stealing Money from a Safe with a Vacuum
Clever: The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room...
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Cultural Cognition of Risk
This is no surprise: The people behind the new study start by asking a pretty obvious question: "Why do members of the public disagree
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Isolating Terrorist Cells as a Security Countermeasure
It's better to try to isolate parts of a terrorist network than to attempt to destroy it as a whole, at least according to this model: Vos Fellman explains how...
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New Attack Against ASP.NET
It's serious: The problem lies in the way that ASP.NET, Microsoft's popular Web framework, implements the AES encryption algorithm to protect the integrity ofdemo...
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Friday Squid Blogging: "Truck Carrying Squid Crashes In Broccoli Field"
You can't make up a headline like that.
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Real-Time NSA Eavesdropping
In an article about Robert Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, this is listed as one of the book's "disclosures": A new capability developed by the National Security...
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