Thursday, February 20, 2020


My Computer Security class was discussing hacking options in our last class. This one is so subtle “humans” may not even notice the change.
Tesla Autopilot gets tricked into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with modified speed limit sign
A group of hackers has managed to trick Tesla’s first-generation Autopilot into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with a modified speed limit sign that humans would be able to read correctly.




For our ongoing discussion…
Here Are All the Ways People Have Found to Hack Voting Machines




Free ebook.
Fighting Disinformation Online
RAND Corporation – Kavanagh, Jennifer, Samantha Cherney, Hilary Reininger, and Norah Griffin, Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools. Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License, 2020.
Today’s information ecosystem brings access to seemingly infinite amounts of information instantaneously. It also contributes to the rapid spread of misinformation and disinformation to millions of people. In response to this challenge and as part of the RAND Corporation’s Truth Decay initiative, RAND researchers worked to identify and characterize the universe of online tools targeted at online disinformation, focusing on those tools created by nonprofit or civil society organizations. This report summarizes the data collected by the RAND team in 2018 and 2019 and serves as a companion to the already published web database. The report includes information on our inclusion and exclusion criteria, a discussion of methodology, a list of domains or characteristics that we coded for every tool (e.g., tool type, delivery platform), a summary of descriptive statistics that provides multiple different snapshots of both available tools and those in development, and a series of deep dives that describe each of the types of tools in the database and how each works to counter the disinformation challenge.”




Apparently it take years to recognize (or admit) your error.
Algorithms Were Supposed to Fix the Bail System. They Haven't
If you are booked into jail in New Jersey, a judge will decide whether to hold you until trial or set you free. One factor the judge must weigh: the result from an algorithm called PSA that estimates how likely you are to skip court or commit another crime.
New Jersey adopted algorithmic risk assessment in 2014 at the urging, in part, of the nonprofit Pretrial Justice Institute. The influential Baltimore organization has for years advocated use of algorithms in place of cash bail, helping them spread to most states in the nation.
Then, earlier this month, PJI suddenly reversed itself. In a statement posted online, the group said risk-assessment tools like those it previously promoted have no place in pretrial justice because they perpetuate racial inequities.




Influential.
Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant For Data Science And Machine Learning Platforms Has Many Surprises
Gartner recently published its magic quadrant report on data science and machine learning (DSML) platforms. The market landscape for DS, ML and AI is extremely fragmented, competitive, and complex to understand. Gartner attempted to stack rank the vendors based on a well-defined criterion. Refer to the inclusion and exclusion criterion for details on the parameters considered by Gartner.




A trend or freakishly unique?
Can Wyoming regulate the internet? Its Legislature is trying.
This week, members in both chambers of the Wyoming Legislature voted to take on three distinct pieces of legislation that could extend a number of laws typically seen in the real world into the digital realm, part of an increasing trend in state legislatures across the country to apply real-world legislation to the digital world.
One bill, which passed second reading in the Senate on Monday, would permit judges to issue warrants for digital records stored on out-of-state servers. Another would essentially extend First Amendment protections to coders or app developers to spare them from prosecution if their products are used in criminal activity, granting what essentially amounts to a “shield law” for computer programmers.
Most ambitious of all was Teton County Democrat Mike Yin’s House Bill 101, which — if passed — would have held all internet service providers accountable for protecting the personal information of their users.



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