security Invisible, targeted infrared light can fool facial recognition software into thinking anyone is anyone else Cory Doctorow
Copyfight A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Machine-learning-based image classifier can tell when the bus and bike-lanes are illegally obstructed Cory Doctorow
censorship People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the blockchain Cory Doctorow
security Machine learning models keep getting spoofed by adversarial attacks and it's not clear if this can ever be fixed Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Excellent explainer: how consensus algorithms (including Bitcoin/blockchain) work Cory Doctorow
Business An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be "anonymized" and how we should handle release of large data-sets Cory Doctorow
Business Your early darknet drug buys are preserved forever in the blockchain, waiting to be connected to your real identity Cory Doctorow
Science Floating 1,600dpi 3D projections made by pushing around flecks of cellulose and hitting them with a laser Cory Doctorow
scholarship Critical perspectives on the Singularity from eminent computer scientist Ed Felten Cory Doctorow
uk Print of "lost" britcom discovered in Nigerian basement and restored with X-rays and laser-cutters Cory Doctorow
scholarship Anti-adblock is a lot more common than anyone thought, but it's not hard to defeat Cory Doctorow
web theory The Australian health authority believed it had "anonymised" a data-set of patient histories, but academics were easily able to unscramble it Cory Doctorow
