Is this another demonstration of the Ukraine’s ability to strike “deep” into Russia? I don’t think so. But if Russia thinks so, this could be the start of a Cyber War.
Massive DDoS attack takes Russia’s second-largest bank VTB offline
Russia's second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history after its website and mobile apps were taken offline due to an ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.
"At present, the VTB technological infrastructure is under unprecedented cyberattack from abroad," stated a VTB spokesperson to TASS (translated).
… The pro-Ukraine hacktivist group, 'IT Army of Ukraine,' has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks against VTB, announcing the campaign on Telegram at the end of November.
Selling your personal data.
https://www.bespacific.com/amazon-offering-users-2-dollars-month-for-track-phone-data-2022-12/
Amazon is offering customers $2 per month for letting the company monitor the traffic on their phones
“Amazon’s Ad Verification program offers select users $2 per month for sharing their traffic data.
It is part of Amazon’s Shopper Panel, an invite-only program that offers users financial rewards.
The voluntary program could raise privacy concerns over how Amazon handles customer data…
Under the company’s new invite-only Ad Verification program, Amazon is tracking what ads participants saw, where they saw them, and the time of day they were viewed. This includes Amazon’s own ads and third-party ads on the platform. Through the program, Amazon hopes to offer more personalized-ad experiences to customers that reflect what they have previously purchased, according to Amazon. “Your participation will help brands offer better products and make ads from Amazon more relevant,”Amazon wrote in its Shopper Panel FAQ…”
Agree this is interesting. It could be very difficult to implement.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/12/the-decoupling-principle.html
The Decoupling Principle
This is a really interesting paper that discusses what the authors call the Decoupling Principle:
The idea is simple, yet previously not clearly articulated: to ensure privacy, information should be divided architecturally and institutionally such that each entity has only the information they need to perform their relevant function. Architectural decoupling entails splitting functionality for different fundamental actions in a system, such as decoupling authentication (proving who is allowed to use the network) from connectivity (establishing session state for communicating). Institutional decoupling entails splitting what information remains between non-colluding entities, such as distinct companies or network operators, or between a user and network peers. This decoupling makes service providers individually breach-proof, as they each have little or no sensitive data that can be lost to hackers. Put simply, the Decoupling Principle suggests always separating who you are from what you do.
Lots of interesting details in the paper.
Is this common?
https://www.bespacific.com/legal-astroturfing/
Legal Astroturfing
Cheung, Alvin, Legal Astroturfing (November 17, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4279133 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4279133
“This Article identifies the phenomenon of legal astroturfing and considers it in relation to other aspects of “democratic backsliding” and contemporary authoritarianism. In particular, I argue that legal astroturfing is especially pernicious not because it is illiberal or anti-democratic (although it is certainly both of these), but because it involves two layers of deception by the regime: legal astroturfing can obfuscate both what is being done, as well as who is doing it. I further argue that this deceptive element of legal astroturfing makes the tactic not merely illiberal or anti-democratic, but anti-legal.”
Things to come.
https://ourworldindata.org/brief-history-of-ai
The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next?
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do. Little is as important for the future of the world, and our own lives, as how this history continues.
An interesting article, but one thing caught my eye...
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/a-conversation-with-kevin-scott-whats-next-in-ai/
A conversation with Kevin Scott: What’s next in AI
… For example, I’ve been playing around with an experimental system I built for myself using GPT-3 designed to help me write a science fiction book, which is something that I’ve wanted to do since I was a teenager. I have notebooks full of synopses I’ve created for theoretical books, describing what the books are about and the universes where they take place. With this experimental tool, I have been able to get the logjam broken. When I wrote a book the old-fashioned way, if I got 2,000 words out of a day, I’d feel really good about myself. With this tool, I’ve had days where I can write 6,000 words in a day, which for me feels like a lot. It feels like a qualitatively more energizing process than what I was doing before.
This is the “copilot for everything” dream—that you would have a copilot that could sit alongside you as you’re doing any kind of cognitive work, helping you not just get more done, but also enhancing your creativity in new and exciting ways.
Tools & Techniques. (From CU Boulder)
Interactive Simulations for Science and Math
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