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.
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.
Researchers enlisted quantum physics to send a "secret key" for encrypting and decrypting messages between two stations 700 miles apart.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty years ago, George Dyson anticipated much of what is happening today in his classic book Darwin Among the Machines. The problem, he tells me, is that we're building systems that are beyond our intellectual means to control. We believe that if a system is deterministic (acting according to fixed rules, this being the definition of an algorithm) it is predictable – and that what is predictable can be controlled. Both assumptions turn out to be wrong.
Learning to believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
— Czesław Miłosz