This category contains posts that cover anything related to security.
I had the pleasure of welcoming back Francesco Mosconi, an AI expert with extensive experience in data science to Searching For The Question. We had a conversation around the critical topic of AI safety, focusing on the practical aspects of designing, training, aligning, and deploying advanced large language models that perform as intended while avoiding […]
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We are creating digital realities and must enrich them with the kind of features that can benefit us. NFTs are good for objects, but what about ourselves? We have been tracking who we are forever. The basic example is presenting yourself by stating your name to someone while shaking their hand. We have also developed
Digital Identities: true names, pseudonyms, anonymsse Read More »
Today’s debate in society about the right balance between privacy and security is extremely misguided. The assumption is that society cannot afford privacy because it would jeopardize security, but it turns out that privacy is not only an advantage to the individual. It is an essential component of adaptable communities that need to recognize evolving
Society Has The Most To Lose By Disrespecting Privacy Read More »
I received a letter yesterday from Michael Robertson, a friend of mine and founder of MP3tunes. His company’s mission is to let people listen to their music wherever they want, and on any device they want. Recently EMI sued him, claiming that he was infringing EMI’s copyright by implementing the services that MP3tunes offers to
What is property, and who decides it? Is your music yours? Read More »
That spam filters would be the first computer systems to wake up, has been a part of the AI lore for some time. There is a steep evolutionary trajectory forced upon the algorithms by the relentless pressure of incoming spam adapting itself to changing conditions. At the same time, the complex system made up by
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On www.enigmaco.de there is an interactive simulator of the German Enigma machine that was used during World War II to encode messages sent to the u-boot fleet. The story of how the British found an inegenious way of decoding these messages at Bletchley park, and through a paintstaking process based on human calculation (the original,
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Pirates’ market Originally uploaded by david.orban. Inside this market all types of software can be found on conveniently assembled CDs or DVDs. A typical price for a CD is 100 rubles ( about 4 dollars, or 3 euro), independently of the content. You can find the latest releases of Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007,
We have started working with Centennial, who makes a software package letting companies manage their policies regarding USB-attached devices, called DeviceWall. Consequently I am now paying more attention to these issues, and just saw the news (via Cnet, through Slashdot, through Diggdot) of a new program that lets an iPod user ‘slurp’ the data off
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Only a couple of days after the widely commented news of Sony’s copy protected DRM-laden music CDs, there is a new backdoor in the wild exploiting it, as described by Kaspersky Lab in their latest alert. So much for the justifications by Sony that their scheme won’t really matter. The EFF initiative for litigation just
New backdoor exploits Sony’s rootkit! Read More »
After a few years the dream of MP3.com is back, and it even more important than before. www.MP3tunes.com offers DRM-free songs at a great price, and couples with a Linux-based media center called MP3beamer that lets you sync it to all your PCs or devices. Digital Restrictions Management, as founder Michael Robertson calls it, cripples
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