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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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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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Analysis of Image File Metadata
As a photographer, I've wondered about this.
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Evercookies
Extremely persistent browser cookies: evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify...
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Details Removed from Book at Request of U.S. Department of Defense
From the AFP: A publisher has agreed to remove US intelligence details from a memoir by a former army officer in Afghanistan after the Pentagon raised last-minute...
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The Stuxnet Worm
It's impressive: The Stuxnet worm is a "groundbreaking" piece of malware so devious in its use of unpatched vulnerabilities, so sophisticated in its multipronged...
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Prepaid Electricity Meter Fraud
New attack: Criminals across the UK have hacked the new keycard system used to top up pre-payment energy meters and are going door-to-door, dressed as power company...
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Haystack
I stayed clear of Haystack -- the anonymity program that was going to protect the privacy of dissidents the world over -- because I didn't have enough details about...
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Statistical Distribution of Combat Wounds to the Head
This is interesting: The study, led by physician Yuval Ran, looked at Israeli combat deaths from 2000 to 2004 and tracked where bullet entries appeared on the...
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Four Irrefutable Security Laws
This list is from Malcolm Harkins, Intel's chief information security officer, and it's a good one (from a talk at Forrester's Security Forum): Users want...
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Questioning Terrorism Policy
Worth reading: ...what if we chose to accept the fact that every few years, despite all reasonable precautions, some hundreds or thousands of us may die in the...
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Master HDCP Key Cracked
The master key for the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard -- that's what encrypts digital television between set-top boxes and digital televisions...
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Automatic Document Declassification
DARPA is looking for something that can automatically declassify documents: I'll be honest: I'm not exactly sure what kind of technological solution you can build...
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DHS Still Worried About Terrorists Using Internet Surveillance
Profound analysis from the Department of Homeland Security: Detailed video obtained through live Web-based camera feeds combined with street-level and direct overhead...
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Highway Honeypot
Police set up a highway sign warning motorists that there are random stops for narcotics checks ahead, but actually search people who take the next exit.
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Not Answering Questions at U.S. Customs
Interesting story: I was detained last night by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport for refusing to answer questions about why I had travelled...
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Vulnerabilities in US-CERT Network
You'd think US-CERT would do somewhat better.
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Kenzero
Kenzero is a Japanese Trojan that collects and publishes users' porn surfing habits, and then blackmails them to remove the information.
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