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Hacking the High School Grading System

Schneier on Security

Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. ” It’s a basic math hack. I know this is a minor thing in the universe of problems with secondary education and grading, but I found the hack interesting. What’s not helping? A teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C.,

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Hacking Scandinavian Alcohol Tax

Schneier on Security

The islands of Åland are an important tax hack : Although Åland is part of the Republic of Finland, it has its own autonomous parliament. In areas where Åland has its own legislation, the group of islands essentially operates as an independent nation.

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UK Electoral Commission Hacked

Schneier on Security

The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know who was behind the hack. We worked with external security experts and the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate and secure our systems.

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Spyware Vendor Hacked

Schneier on Security

A Brazilian spyware app vendor was hacked by activists: In an undated note seen by TechCrunch, the unnamed hackers described how they found and exploited several security vulnerabilities that allowed them to compromise WebDetetive’s servers and access its user databases.

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Belgian Tax Hack

Schneier on Security

Here’s a fascinating tax hack from Belgium (listen to the details here , episode #484 of “No Such Thing as a Fish,” at 28:00). Basically, it’s about a music festival on the border between Belgium and Holland. The stage was in Holland, but the crowd was in Belgium.

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Hacking the Layoff Process

Schneier on Security

My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind , is filled with stories about the rich and powerful hacking systems, but it was hard to find stories of the hacking by the less powerful. Here’s one I just found.

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When AIs Start Hacking

Schneier on Security

Hacking is as old as humanity. To date, hacking has exclusively been a human activity. After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage. Most of these hacks don’t even require major research breakthroughs in AI. Not for long.

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