Will Switzerland use this system for the next election? Why not a
system where each voter (using a random number generated by the
voting machine/system) can check a public listing of (unencrypted)
votes?
Second
Critical Crypto Flaw Found in Swiss E-Voting System
… Switzerland
has been conducting e-voting trials since 2004 and Swiss Post
believes it has now developed a fully verifiable system that can make
e-voting widely available in the country.
However,
it turns out that the components of the system designed to ensure
that votes have not been manipulated, which should have already been
thoroughly tested, have some potentially serious vulnerabilities.
… The
second weakness, which the researchers also described as “critical,”
is related to the votes themselves. Each vote is encrypted and a
cryptographic method known as zero-knowledge proof is used to ensure
that the voting authority doesn’t declare a different vote choice
than what the voter selected.
… “But
our research has found that this proof is not sound. It’s possible
to generate a proof that passes verification, but changes the
contents of the encrypted vote.
Watch how ‘social’ you become.
Paper – I
Lost My Job Over a Facebook Post – Was that Fair?
Mantouvalou, Virginia, ‘I Lost My Job Over a
Facebook Post – Was that Fair?’ Discipline and Dismissal for
Social Media Activity (October 31, 2018). 2019 International Journal
of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations; Faculty of Laws
University College London Law Research Paper No. 2/2018. Available
at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3276055
“Is it fair to be dismissed for social media
activity, and are there any limitations to the employer’s
managerial prerogative? These are the questions that this article
addresses by examining the compatibility of discipline or dismissal
with human rights law, with a primary focus on United Kingdom (UK)
and European human rights law. It
argues that UK courts and tribunals erroneously accept the lawfulness
of such dismissals most of the time. This is due both to
weaknesses in the English law of unfair dismissal, and to courts’
and tribunals’ limited engagement with human rights at work.
Technical aspects of social media usage, with which courts and
tribunals are often unfamiliar, add a further layer of complexity.
Two factors make dismissals for social media activity particularly
challenging for courts: first, the fact that social media are online
platforms that everyone can potentially access, and hence public
rather than private space; second, that expression on social media,
often spontaneous and thoughtless, is not viewed as a particularly
valuable form of speech. The argument of the article is that both
the right to private life and the right to free speech are implicated
in dismissals for social media activity, and that they should be
viewed as lawful in very limited occasions, for employers should not
have the right to censor the moral, political and other views and
preferences of their employees even if it causes business harm.”
Isn’t April First still a few days away?
The end of
school: AI ‘Google brain’ implants to REPLACE education and
‘supercharge IQ’
… The CEO and Founder of Fountech.ai
exclusively told Daily Star Online he is working on a revolutionary
AI to “personalise education”.
“The current area of focus is personalised
education – trying to demarketise and de monetise learning so that
anyone can learn almost anything using AI,” he told Daily Star
Online.
… Nick said the new learning tool could end
school as we know it
“This AI will enable anyone in the world, no
matter who or how old they are, to log on to their smart tv or their
computer or their phone their smart glasses the AI in their car, and
say ‘teach me about this’.
These read much like any writing guide, except for
a few minor details. If I reverse these guidelines, will I rule
anti-social media? Oh, wait. We already have a President who does
that.
The
Non-Writers' Guide To Writing Better Social Media Copy
… Even if you have zero experience with
content or social media marketing, social media is a pillar of
digital marketing, and can help you drive traffic, find leads, and
rank higher in search.
… With so many options for writing social
media copy – Facebook updates, tweets, Instagram captions, or even
LinkedIn’s publishing platform for blog-length posts – we’ll
start with the basics of writing for the web, then build out to best
data-driven practices.
I suppose, “Good movies, dude!” is not what
they’re looking for?
J.R.R.
Tolkien fans — here's your chance to become part of Marquette
University's oral history project
Marquette University — which has an extensive
collection of Tolkien's notes, manuscripts, first drafts, maps and
artwork — wants to hear from fans for an oral history project that
hopes to collect 6,000 recordings.
Why 6,000 oral histories? Tolkien aficionados
already know this, but for folks who have never heard of a hobbit,
that's the number of riders of the Rohirrim.
The Tolkien
Fandom Oral History Project launched recently with
little fanfare but is now ramping up to include fans who can't come
to Milwaukee to give a short spiel on why Tolkien is the greatest
author ever.
The official announcement is Monday, which happens
to be Tolkien Reading Day, an annual event to encourage reading the
works of Tolkien. Why March 25? That's the day in Tolkien's
timeline when the ring was destroyed.
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