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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Black Hat: System links your face to your Social Security number and other private things

Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities | DARPA software to spin "dumb" photos or video into intelligence gold

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Black Hat: System links your face to your Social Security number and other private things
Soon it will be practicable to take someone's photo on a smartphone and within minutes know their Social Security number and a range of other private data like their personal interests, sexual preference and credit status, researchers will tell the Black Hat security conference this week. Read More


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DARPA software to spin "dumb" photos or video into intelligence gold
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) would like to make that about a billion with a new software intelligent program. Read More

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