uk Welsh police deployed facial recognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they're sure it's fine Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Stealing data from airgapped computers by using power fluctuations as a covert channel Cory Doctorow
crypto You can unscramble the hashes of humanity's 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069 Cory Doctorow
happy mutants UC Berkeley offers its Foundations of Data Science course for free online Cory Doctorow
law Law professors and computer scientists mull whether America's overbroad "hacking" laws ban tricking robots Cory Doctorow
security Attacks that unmask anonymous blockchain transactions can be used against everyone who ever relied on the defective technique Cory Doctorow
security Invisible, targeted infrared light can fool facial recognition software into thinking anyone is anyone else Cory Doctorow
Copyfight A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Machine-learning-based image classifier can tell when the bus and bike-lanes are illegally obstructed Cory Doctorow
censorship People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the blockchain Cory Doctorow
security Machine learning models keep getting spoofed by adversarial attacks and it's not clear if this can ever be fixed Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Excellent explainer: how consensus algorithms (including Bitcoin/blockchain) work Cory Doctorow
