US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
August 28 2020The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method:
Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a...
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Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
August 27 2020Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part,...
Read moreAmazon Supplier Fraud
August 26 2020Interesting story of an Amazon supplier fraud: According to the indictment, the brothers swapped ASINs for items Amazon ordered to send large quantities of different goods instead. In one...
Read moreIdentifying People by Their Browsing Histories
August 25 2020Interesting paper: "Replication: Why We Still Can't Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories": We examine the threat to individuals' privacy based on the...
Read moreRhode Island has an official state appetizer, and it's calamari. Who knew? As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read moreYet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures
August 21 2020Sound waves through the body are unique enough to be a biometric: "Modeling allowed us to infer what structures or material features of the human body actually differentiated people,"...
Read moreCopying a Key by Listening to It in Action
August 20 2020Researchers are using recordings of keys being used in locks to create copies. Once they have a key-insertion audio file, SpiKey's inference software gets to work filtering the signal...
Read moreUsing Disinformation to Cause a Blackout
August 18 2020Interesting paper: "How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid": Abstract: Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at...
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