Think of it as a work in progress.
Hackers use
a fake wax hand to fool vein authentication security
Vein authentication, a
biometric security method that scans the veins in your hand, has
been cracked, reports Motherboard.
Using a fake hand made out of wax, Jan Krissler and Julian Albrecht
demonstrated how they were able to bypass scanners made by both
Hitachi and Fujitsu, which they claim covers around 95 percent of the
vein authentication market. The method was demonstrated at Germany’s
annual Chaos Communication Congress.
While imprints of
fingerprints can often be left behind on surfaces just by touching
them, vein patterns cannot, and are considered to be much more secure
as a result.
Is this in time to ensure the 2020 election is
influence free?
Measuring
the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
DuckDuckGo
Blog: “Over the years, there has been considerable
discussion
of Google’s “filter bubble” problem. Put simply, it’s the
manipulation of your search results based on your personal data. In
practice this means links are moved up or down or added to your
Google search results, necessitating the filtering of other
search results altogether. These editorialized results are informed
by the
personal information Google has on you (like your search,
browsing, and purchase history), and puts you in a bubble
based on what Google’s algorithms think you’re most likely to
click on. The filter bubble is particularly pernicious when
searching for political topics. That’s because undecided and
inquisitive voters turn to search engines to conduct basic research
on candidates and issues in the critical time when they are forming
their opinions on them. If they’re getting information that is
swayed to one side because of their personal filter bubbles, then
this can
have a significant effect on political outcomes in aggregate…
Now, after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and other recent elections, there is justified new interest in examining the ways people can be influenced politically online. In that context, we conducted another study to examine the state of Google’s filter bubble problem in 2018…”
Facebook is certainly being vilified like they are
responsible.
Facebook
Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely
Bites
Last spring, soon after Facebook acknowledged that
the data of tens of millions of its users had
improperly been obtained by the political consulting firm Cambridge
Analytica, a top enforcement official at the Federal Trade
Commission drafted a memo about the prospect of disciplining the
social network.
Lawmakers, consumer advocates and even former
commission officials were clamoring for tough action against
Facebook, arguing that it had violated an earlier F.T.C. consent
decree barring it from misleading users about how their information
was shared.
But the enforcement official, James A. Kohm, took
a different view. In a previously undisclosed memo in March, Mr. Kohm
— echoing Facebook’s own argument — cautioned
that Facebook was not responsible for the consulting
firm’s reported abuses. The social network seemed to have taken
reasonable steps to address the problem, he wrote, according to
someone who read the memo, and most likely had not broken its
promises to the F.T.C.
Perspective.
Smart
speakers hit critical mass in 2018
... The smart speaker market reached critical
mass in 2018, with around 41 percent of U.S. consumers now owning a
voice-activated speaker, up from 21.5 percent in 2017.
This was the activity on my blog yesterday.
Strange that once again more Russians are reading the blog than
anyone else. And why can’t Google identify the country 116 users
are connecting from?
Pageviews by countries.
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