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As Predicted: Scammers Are Now Scanning Faces To Defeat Biometric Security Measures | Techdirt
Cool cool, nothing could possibly go wrong in now requiring more and more people to normalize the idea of scanning your face to access a website. Nothing at all. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/as-predicted-scammers-are-now-scanning-faces-to-defeat-biometric-security-measures/
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PasswordsCon Las Vegas 2014
Bunch of interesting talks from 10 years ago; maybe I should watch them to see what’s changed? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdIqs92nsIzRFk0OCN_uQiOkgtPiNk2mv
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This, Too, Shall Pass: Reflections on Secure Computing
My friend Daniel posted something perky, positive, and constructive, and so I had to reply with my sentiment: A good report by the @WhiteHouse (ONCD) on the path to secure and measurable software … With memory safe languages being pushed to the front of the queue. Oh, how I wish, my sweet summer children, but…
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Nevada sues to deny kids access to Messenger encryption | The Register
We continue to stare at our shoes and wait for a result… https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/nevada_meta_encryption/
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EFF Statement on Nevada’s Attack on End-to-End Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in…
Yet in the name of protecting children, Nevada seems to be arguing that merely offering encryption on a social media platform that Meta knows has been used by criminals is itself illegal. This cannot be the law; in practice it would let the state prohibit all platforms from offering encryption, and such a ruling would…
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Motherboard on Twitter: “goodnight and good luck”
An apt reference:
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Caffeine Bombe Coffee: The National Museum of Computing | The National Museum of Computing
Cute: https://www.tnmoc.org/tnmocshop/caffeine-bombe-coffee-1
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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | …I wonder if @getyoti are watching the public reaction to this?
Several “age verification” / “age assurance” providers use facial recognition & assessment tech (including AI) to guess how old you are; they claim that this is not “processing personal data” because they promise the data is never linked to an individual. It appears that the general public don’t believe nor care about that nuance, at…
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Ottawa to create regulator to hold online platforms accountable for harmful content: sources | CBC News
Oh, Canada. Here we go again. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-harms-legislation-new-regulator-1.7125289
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** PLEASE NAME IT “BOTTOM” ** — New Uranian moon discovered by @carnegiescience @CarnegiePlanets awaits name of a character from a Shakespearian play
Speaking as a qualified astronomer this is a less-that-once-in-a-blue moon opportunity to one-up the incessant “Uranus” jokes we’ve always had to live with, and to my mind there is only one possible candidate-name. Scott: do us proud. Swing the IAU, do whatever you have to. “The three newly discovered moons are the faintest ever found…
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I truly, truly abhor that there is big-name software out there, the behaviour of which is bolstering the positions of the right-wing, the anti-woke, and other reactionary brigades
For instance, the attached; there was a book by Philip K Dick which a guy who had to argue with his doors and refrigerators about micropayments and the propriety of allowing itself to be opened by him. This is not a future we should pursue…