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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
The Limits of Visual Inspection
Interesting research: Target prevalence powerfully influences visual search behavior. In most visual search experiments, targets appear on at least 50% of trials...
From Schneier on Security
More Details on the Chinese Attack Against Google
Three weeks ago, Google announced a sophisticated attack against them from China. There have been some interesting technical details since then. And the NSA is...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on Threefish
At FSE 2010 this week, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolic presented a paper where they cryptanalyze ARX algorithms (algorithms that use only addition, rotation...
From Schneier on Security
Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee
This is unconscionable: At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair...
From Schneier on Security
World's Largest Data Collector Teams Up With Word's Largest Data Collector
Does anyone think this is a good idea? Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate...
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Security and Function Creep
Security is rarely static. Technology changes both security systems and attackers. But there
From Schneier on Security
Anonymity and the Internet
Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security. Anonymity is bad, the argument goes; and if we abolish it, we can ensure only...
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More Movie Plot Terrorist Threats
The Foreign Policy website has its own list of movie-plot threats: machine-gun wielding terrorists on paragliders, disease-laden insect swarms, a dirty bomb made...
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Online Credit/Debit Card Security Failure
Ross Anderson reports: Online transactions with credit cards or debit cards are increasingly verified using the 3D Secure system, which is branded as "Verified...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Harrowgate's 1886 Giant Squid
I have no idea how to explain this.
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Tracking Your Browser Without Cookies
How unique is your browser? Can you be tracked simply by its characteristics? The EFF is trying to find out. Their site Panopticlick will measure the characteristics...
From Schneier on Security
World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an...
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Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives
Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and...
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More Surveillance in the UK
This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of...
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Penny Shooter Business Card
Nice. Of course, this means that the TSA will start banning wallets on airplanes.
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The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected
The notion that U.S. intelligence should have "connected the dots," and caught Abdulmutallab, isn't going away. This is a typical example: So you'd need comeresponds...
From Schneier on Security