Quanta magazine recently published a breathless article on indistinguishability obfuscation — calling it the “‘crown jewel’ of cryptography” — and…
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze: Why…
Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“: Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be…
Accuracy isn’t great, but that it can be done at all is impressive. Murtuza Jadiwala, a computer science professor heading…
Researchers are tricking autopilots by inserting split-second images into roadside billboards. Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev…
Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face: In particular, video of…
Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: “No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A…
It’s complicated, but it’s basically a man-in-the-middle attack that involves two smartphones. The first phone reads the actual smartcard, and…