I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. Screeching voice of the minority. (Mastodon at matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange.) Also, I will never pay for Twitter.
(who has abandoned Twitter) proposes in the #OnlineSafetyBill that platforms must know the nationality and/or physical location of their users, lest VPNs (etc) are used to circumvent OSB restrictions
This paper contains the "philosophy of differential privacy" stuff I've been wanting to get out, as well as a fun history of PRNGs and it even tells you what we're doing for the 2020 Census!
“Here at (at)DecentraNetProto we’ve solved the problem of forward secrecy, deniability AND post-quantum security. I think you should take a look!” No I’m pretty sure I won’t.
I actually don’t hate cryptocurrency posts that much. I just hate the ones that start out shilling some random protocol, like I’m supposed to know what it does or care.
A massive GPS glitch in Moscow.
Car-sharing cars and scooters are shown floating in the river, taxis are being called to the other side of the city, and pedestrian navigation is working intermittently.
All because the police are jamming GPS signal for security purposes in…Show more
@MichioKaku: "Quantum computers can act as a fact checker on ChatGPT."
@JoeRogan: "It's going to be able to discern what's real and what's not real?"
@MichioKaku: "Yes, and even gradations of what's true. It can give you detailed understanding of what is partially correct."
It’s been six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising a new era of free speech. But Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance
10 months ago USDT (a Eurodollar used primarily for settlement on international exchanges) had $66 billion in market cap. USDC hit $55 billion in market cap.
Today, USDT is $82 billion vs. $30 billion for USDC.
That's a collossal public policy failure.
The minute I saw “payments made easy” I knew this was going to be expensive and it wouldn’t accept any of my cards. The entire US payment infrastructure should be ripped out and replaced.
Meta-owned #WhatsApp banned a record of over 47 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.
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Also this was Google’s idea for a “share” icon for like five years, which means I’ll never trust any usability research coming from that company ever again.
My biggest worry about Musk’s E2EE DM plan is that he’ll install some sort of broken client-side scanning system into it, and governments will treat this as the gold standard.
Hello sweeties and home slices.
Apple have released a Rapid Security Response update for your Tim Apple computer machines. Rapid Security Response means you should go update them right now now now now and reboot.
It'll be quick and painless I promise*.
gg and glhf
*maybe
Depressing watching a nation systematically eliminate private messaging because of terrorism, knowing the terrorists will find other secure ways to communicate — but ordinary people won’t.