Remotely Stopping Polish Trains
August 28 2023Turns out that it’s easy to broadcast radio commands that force Polish trains to stop:
…the saboteurs appear to have sent simple so-called “radio-stop” commands via radio frequency to...
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Friday Squid Blogging: China’s Squid Fishing Ban Ineffective
August 26 2023China imposed a “pilot program banning fishing in parts of the south-west Atlantic Ocean from July to October, and parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean from September to...
Read moreHacking Food Labeling Laws
August 25 2023This article talks about new Mexican laws about food labeling, and the lengths to which food manufacturers are going to ensure that they are not effective. There are...
Read moreParmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
August 24 2023The Guardian is reporting about microchips in wheels of Parmesan cheese as an anti-forgery measure.
Read moreDecember’s Reimagining Democracy Workshop
August 23 2023Imagine that we’ve all—all of us, all of society—landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don’t have any legacy systems from...
Read moreApplying AI to License Plate Surveillance
August 22 2023License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle behavior:
Typically, Automatic...
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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
August 21 2023At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports:
The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
August 19 2023Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups, which include...
Read moreBots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
August 18 2023Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“:
Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the...
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