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Sep 13, 2023

People Are Dating All Wrong, According to Data Science →

Say there is a person, John, and he is partnered with Sally. You want to predict whether John is happy in the relationship. You are allowed to ask John and/or Sally any three questions about themselves and use this information to predict John’s relationship happiness.

What questions would you want to ask? What would you want to know about the two members of this couple?

Sep 13, 2023

How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps →

Mr. Lopp, a self-described libertarian who works for a Bitcoin security company, had long been obsessed with the value of privacy, and he set out to learn how thoroughly a person can escape the all-seeing eyes of corporate America and the government.

Sep 12, 2023

Face recognition and AI ethics →

We worry about face recognition just as we worried about databases - we worry what happens if they break, and we worry what happens if they work too well.

Sep 11, 2023

It's Not Enough to Be Right — You Also Have to Be Kind →

Reason is easy. Being clever is easy. Humiliating someone in the wrong is easy too. But putting yourself in their shoes, kindly nudging them to where they need to be, understanding that they have emotional and irrational beliefs just like you have emotional and irrational beliefs — that’s all much harder.

Sep 10, 2023

China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission →

Researchers enlisted quantum physics to send a "secret key" for encrypting and decrypting messages between two stations 700 miles apart.

Sep 9, 2023

U.S. Department of Justice Disrupts Hive Ransomware →

Since late July 2022, the FBI has penetrated Hive’s computer networks, captured its decryption keys, and offered them to victims worldwide, preventing victims from having to pay $130 million in ransom demanded. Since infiltrating Hive’s network in July 2022, the FBI has provided over 300 decryption keys to Hive victims who were under attack. In addition, the FBI distributed over 1,000 additional decryption keys to previous Hive victims.

Sep 8, 2023

Dotnet’s default AES mode is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks →

Padding oracles are fairly well known, and padding oracle attacks against AES-CBC with PKCS7 are exceptionally well known. With that, some may find it surprising that dotnet’s (yes, even the new shiny dotnetcore) default behavior is to use CBC mode.

Sep 7, 2023

Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually →

At Ford, learning exactly when and how things will fail—over many years and across a spectrum of millions of vehicles around the world—can save untold amounts of money and maybe even human lives. So in the stripped-down cab in Building 4, the piston continues to push on the gas pedal, then let up, then push again, over and over. This simple exercise is worth billions of dollars. Look closely enough and you can see all the complexity, perils, and opportunities of managing failure. And, as it happens, you might also catch a glimpse of the future of manufacturing.

Sep 6, 2023

Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Searched A Sexual Assault Victim’s Name, Address Or Telephone Number →

While Google deals with thousands of such orders every year, the keyword warrant is one of the more contentious. In many cases, the government will already have a specific Google account that they want information on and have proof it’s linked to a crime. But search term orders are effectively fishing expeditions, hoping to ensnare possible suspects whose identities the government does not know.

Sep 5, 2023

The Basics of Decentralized Identity →

At the most basic level, decentralized identity is the story of three standardized documents: a proclamation, a letter of introduction, and an endorsement. That's it! The rest is just tying up loose ends.

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H. Parker Shelton

I'm just an ordinary thirty-something who's had some extraordinary opportunities. I graduated from Johns Hopkins University, work for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, code websites and applications, take the occasional photograph, and keep a constant eye on current events, politics, and technology. This blog is the best of what catches that eye.

 
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