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Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body Scanners | Threat Level | WIRED
“In their malware demonstration, the researchers used a distinctive image to signal to their software that the scanner should replace a certain person’s image with an innocuous one.
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The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections) | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
“Those looking for a challenge might try their hand at transcribing the English-Alabama and Alabama-English dictionary. Compiled from 1906 to 1913, the massive work includes thousands of vocabulary terms. Volumes three and four still need some work.
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Cybersecurity czar is proud of his technical illiteracy – Boing Boing
“Michael Daniel thinks “being too down in the weeds at the technical level could actually be a little bit of a distraction”; Ed Felten counters, “Imagine reaction if White House economic advisor bragged about lack of economics knowledge, or Attorney General bragged about lack of legal expertise.””