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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
EU Counterterrorism Strategy
Interesting journal article evaluating the EU's counterterrorism efforts.
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Economic Considerations of Website Password Policies
Two interesting research papers on website password policies. "Where Do Security Policies Come From?": Abstract: We examine the password policies of 75 different...
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New GAO Cybersecurity Report
From the U.S. Government Accountability Office: "Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development." Thirty-six pages; I haven't...
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Violating Terms of Service Possibly a Crime
From Wired News: The four Wiseguy defendants, who also operated other ticket-reselling businesses, allegedly used sophisticated programming and inside information...
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Embedded Code in U.S. Cyber Command Logo
This is excellent. And it's been cracked already.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid
Symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria, with bonus security implications.
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Skype's Cryptography Reverse-Engineered
Someone claims to have reverse-engineered Skype's proprietary encryption protocols, and has published pieces of it. If the crypto is good, this is less of a big...
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The NSA's Perfect Citizen
In what creepy back room do they come up with these names? The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults...
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Russian Intelligence Gets Source Code to Windows 7
I don't think this is a good idea.
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Random Numbers from Quantum Noise
Not that we need more ways to get random numbers, but the research is interesting.
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Burglary Detection through Video Analytics
This is interesting: Some of the scenarios where we have installed video analytics for our clients include: to detect someone walking in an area of their yard...
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Caller ID Spoofing on the Android
It's easy to access someone else's voicemail by spoofing the caller ID. This isn't new; what is new is that many people now have easy access to caller ID spoofing...
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Hemingway Authentication Scheme
From 1955, intended as humor: In the future when I should ever call on the telephone to make a request or issue an order I will identify myself as follows: This...
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The Chaocipher
The Chaocipher is a mechanical encryption algorithm invented in 1918. No one was able to reverse-engineer the algorithm, given sets of plaintexts and ciphertexts...
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Serial Killers Are Now Terrorists
Try to keep up: Leslie Van Houten, a one-time member of Charles Manson's infamous 'family' is up for parole for the 17th time today.... "These are serial killers...
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Internet Kill Switch
Last month, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., introduced a bill that might -- we're not really sure -- give the president the authority to shut down all or portionsproposed...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sex Organs
Riddles of squid sex: All cephalopods are hindered by their body shape, which comprises a closed hood-type structure called a mantle, which forms most of what...
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TSA Blocks Access to Websites with "Controversial Opinions"
I wonder if my blog counts.
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