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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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Texas Instruments Signing Keys Broken
Texas Instruments' calculators use RSA digital signatures to authenticate any updates to their operating system. Unfortunately, their signing keys are too short...
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The Onion on Security
"Authorities Called in to Examine Suspicious-Looking Ham."
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Sears Spies on its Customers
It's not just hackers who steal financial and medical information: Between April 2007 and January 2008, visitors to the Kmart and Sears web sites were invitedSony...
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Monopoly Sets for WWII POWs: More Information
I already blogged about this; there's more information in this new article: Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in...
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Eliminating Externalities in Financial Security
This is a good thing: An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their...
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Hacking Two-Factor Authentication
Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud: Here are two new active attacks we're starting to see: Man-in-the...
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Quantum Computer Factors the Number 15
This is an important development: Shor's algorithm was first demonstrated in a computing system based on nuclear magnetic resonance -- manipulating molecules in...
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Inferring Friendship from Location Data
Interesting: For nine months, Eagle's team recorded data from the phones of 94 students and staff at MIT. By using blue-tooth technology and phone masts, theyabstract...
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Terrorist Havens
Good essay on "terrorist havens" -- like Afghanistan -- and why they're not as big a worry as some maintain: Rationales for maintaining the counterinsurgency in...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Embracing Your Inner Squid
Interview with Jonathan Coulton.
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Modifying the Color-Coded Threat Alert System
I wrote about the DHS's color-coded threat alert system in 2003, in Beyond Fear: The color-coded threat alerts issued by the Department of Homeland Security are...
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Printing Police Handcuff Keys
Using a 3D printer. Impressive. At the end of the day he talked the officers into trying the key on their handcuffs and
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Skein News
Skein is one of the 14 SHA-3 candidates chosen by NIST to advance to the second round. As part of the process, NIST allowed the algorithm designers to implement...
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Robert Sawyer's Alibis
Back in 2002, science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer wrote an essay about the trade-off between privacy and security, and came out in favor of less privacy. I...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Stinky Squid
It's a mushroom: Pseudocolus fusiformis.
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Schneier on "The Future of the Security Industry"
Here's a video of a talk I gave at an OWASP meeting in August.
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Eighth Anniversary of 9/11
On September 30, 2001, I published a special issue of Crypto-Gram discussing the terrorist attacks. I wrote about the novelty of the attacks, airplane security...
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File Deletion
File deletion is all about control. This used to not be an issue. Your data was on your computer, and you decided when and how to delete a file. You could use the...
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