Collaborate Disseminate
Thinking of bringing your laptops, tablet, camera, or DVD players into the airplane cabin?
Continue reading Laptops, tablets and other gadgets banned from cabin on some US-bound flights
Just in case you weren’t already anxious enough. Continue reading Bill Gates Warns of Bioterror Doomsday
Interesting article in Science discussing field research on how people are radicalized to become terrorists. The potential for research that can overcome existing constraints can be seen in recent advances in understanding violent extremism and, partly, in interdiction and prevention. Most notable is waning interest in simplistic root-cause explanations of why individuals become violent extremists (e.g., poverty, lack of education,… Continue reading Research into the Root Causes of Terrorism
Good article that crunches the data and shows that the press’s coverage of terrorism is disproportional to its comparative risk. This isn’t new. I’ve written about it before, and wrote about it more generally when I wrote about the psychology of risk, fear, and security. Basically, the issue is the availability heuristic. We tend to infer the probability of something… Continue reading How the Media Influences Our Fear of Terrorism
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker convincingly makes the point that by pretty much every measure you can think of, violence has declined on our planet over the long term. More generally, "the world continues to improve in just about every way." He’s right, but there are two important caveats. One, he is talking about the long… Continue reading Are We Becoming More Moral Faster Than We’re Becoming More Dangerous?
Privacy advocates condemn US immigration asking for visitors’ social media account names Continue reading Welcome to America. Now, what’s your Twitter handle?
Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA’s PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system is its enrollment process, which seeks to verify an applicant’s identity. We know verification is a challenge: A 2011 Government Accountability Office report on TSA’s system for checking airport workers’ identities concluded that it was "not… Continue reading Security Risks of TSA PreCheck
By Carolina
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) devised a new rule in June this year for foreign travelers wishing to visit the US. According to the new rule, foreign travelers are required to give their social media account details to US Immigration authorities. A US government official stated that foreign travelers in the country […]
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By Carolina
A website on the Dark Web, internet’s underworld where all sorts of illegal content can be shared or bought easily and anonymously, is urging users to help it raise money to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence. CSO reports that this particular website went live previous week and allegedly is seeking assistance to […]
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He also has almost no experience in the world of intelligence. Continue reading Trump’s CIA Director Pick Thinks Using Encryption ‘May Itself Be A Red Flag’