Someday
we will take the time and spend the money to secure our elections.
Someday…
DHS
memo: 'Significant' security risks presented by online voting
The
Department of Homeland Security has told election officials and
voting vendors that internet-connected voting is risky to the point
that ballots returned online “could be manipulated at scale” by a
malicious attacker.
The
advisory that DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency sent states on Friday is perhaps the federal government’s
sternest warning yet against online voting. It comes as officials
weigh their options for conducting elections during a pandemic and as
digital voting vendors see an opportunity to hawk their products.
(Related)
Putin
Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election
SO,
if the dog finds drugs they can’t say, “good dog?”
Tim
Cushing writes:
…This case, via FourthAmendment.com, is an amazing anomaly. Not only did the court choose to hear from experts on drug dog training and handling, it actually went so far as to call into question the reliability of every drug dog in the state.
The suppression order [PDF] contains a subheading rarely seen in federal court decisions:
A. The court has serious concerns about Tank’s training and reliability.
Tank is Officer Moore’s drug dog. Officer Moore handled the training in accordance with Utah’s Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) guidelines. Unfortunately, those guidelines do nothing to prevent officers from turning drug dogs into subservient partners with a desire to please and a willingness to respond to handler cues.
Read
more on TechDirt.
Does
this lower the threshold of acts of war?
The
Importance of New Statements on Sovereignty in Cyberspace by Austria,
the Czech Republic and United States
A
recent United Nations event gave States a new opportunity to announce
their positions on how international law applies to cyberspace, and
those of Austria and the Czech Republic stood out. The United
Nations Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of
information and telecommunications in the context of international
security (OEWG
)
held its second substantive session February 10-14. In their
statements, both States took firm positions in the ongoing debate
concerning whether sovereignty is merely a principle, or also a rule
of international law, with both supporting the latter view by
recognizing the existence of an independent obligation to respect
sovereignty in cyberspace.
Austria has recently been the target of a severe cyber operation. In that context, we would like to refer to the principle of state sovereignty. A violation of this rule constitutes an internationally wrongful act – if attributable to a state – for which a target state may seek reparation under the law of state responsibility. A target state may also react through proportionate countermeasures.
Covid-19
has changed everything. Can we un-change things?
AI,
Robots, and Ethics in the Age of COVID-19
Before
COVID-19, most people had some degree of apprehension about robots
and artificial intelligence. Though their beliefs may have been
initially shaped by dystopian depictions of the technology in science
fiction, their discomfort was reinforced by legitimate concerns.
Some of AI’s business applications were indeed leading to the loss
of jobs, the reinforcement of biases, and infringements on data
privacy.
Those
worries appear to have been set aside since the onset of the pandemic
as AI-infused technologies have been employed to mitigate the spread
of the virus. We’ve seen an acceleration of the use of robotics to
do the jobs of humans who have been ordered to stay at home or who
have been redeployed within the workplace.
… After
a vaccine for COVID-19 is developed (we hope) and the pandemic
retreats, it’s hard to imagine life returning to how it was at the
start of 2020. Our experiences in the coming months will make it
quite easy to normalize automation as a part of our daily lives.
Companies that have adopted robots during the crisis might think that
a significant percentage of their human employees are not needed
anymore. Consumers who will have spent more time than ever
interacting with robots might become accustomed to that type of
interaction. When you get used to having food delivered by a robot,
you eventually might not even notice the disappearance of a job that
was once held by a human. In fact, some people might want to
maintain social distancing even when it is not strictly needed
anymore.
No
worries! By the time we’ve experienced a couple of dozen
pandemics, AI will catch up.
Our
weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models
In
the week of 12 to 18 April, the top ten search terms on Amazon.com
were: toilet paper, face mask, hand sanitizer, paper towels, lysol
spray, clorox wipes, mask, lysol, masks for germ protection, and n95
mask. People weren’t just searching, they were buying
too—and
in bulk. The majority of people looking for masks ended up buying
the new
Amazon #1 Best Seller, “Face Mask, Pack of 50”.
When covid-19 hit, we started buying things we’d
never bought before. The shift was sudden: the mainstays of Amazon’s
top ten—phone cases, phone chargers, Lego—were knocked off the
charts in just
a few days.
… But
they have also affected artificial
intelligence,
causing hiccups for the algorithms that run behind the scenes in
inventory management, fraud detection, marketing, and more.
Machine-learning models trained on normal human behavior are now
finding that normal
has changed,
and some are breaking as a result.
W hat
have I ever done to amuse or anger the Turkmen?
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