February 2018 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

e-democracy

by Diego Giorio

Segnalo questo articolo sugli strumenti di e-democracy e su come possono influire sul voto http://www.altalex.com/documents/news/2018/02/15/te-la-do-io-la-e-democracy Saluti a tutti D.

Feb. 22, 2018

Innovazione e creatività: focus su Nòva24

by Josephine Condemi

Carissimi, Mi permetto di condividere un focus su innovazione e creatività pubblicato su Nòva24 domenica scorsa. L'apertura è sui risultati del modello statistico verificato nel progetto Kreyon a partire dal "possibile adiacente" di Stuart Kauffman e l'autoorganizzazione dei sistemi viventi: http://nova.ilsole24ore.com/frontiere/prevedere-la-novita-e-possibile/ Seguono tre applicazioni: - sviluppo sostenibile http://nova.ilsole24ore.com/pr ogetti/lo-sviluppo-parte-dai-contesti/ - composizione musicale http://nova.ilsole24ore.com/p rogetti/i-suoni-dellintelligenza-artificiale/ - cucina (http://nova.ilsole24ore.com/progetti/le-trame-destrutturate -del-gusto/ Spero siano di vostro interesse Josephine Condemi

Feb. 22, 2018

NYer Morozov: "The Planning Machine"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Storia abbastanza nota, ma l'articolo di EM è ottimo, soprattutto se non avete tempo di leggere il libro di Medina. jc *The Planning Machine* /Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation.// / By Evgeny Morozov In June, 1972, Ángel Parra, Chile’s leading folksinger, wrote a song titled “Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born.” Computers are like children, he sang, and Chilean bureaucrats must not abandon them. The song was prompted by a visit to Santiago from a British consultant who, with his ample beard and burly physique, reminded Parra of Santa Claus—a Santa bearing a “hidden gift, cybernetics.” […] Continua qui: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine

Feb. 22, 2018

Re: [nexa] Venezuela launches state-owned cryptocurrency

by Stefano Quintarelli

IMHO, si stanno vendendo due volte gli stessi barili di petrolio, gia' impegnati per garantire l'attuale debito. ma e' piu' una dichiarazione che altro... On 20/02/2018 19:24, Enrico Bergamini wrote: > Buonasera, > Vi lascio un paio di spunti interessanti sul lancio di Petro, > criptovaluta venezuelana "coperta" da petrolio, mi pare non fosse ancora > passato in lista. > > https://qz.com/1211135/cryptocurrency-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-la… > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/19/venezuelas-new-bitcoin-n-inge… > > Saluti, > Enrico > > > -- > Enrico Bergamini > > http://enricobergamini.it > "All that we are is the result of what we have thought" > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

Feb. 21, 2018

analisi dell'algoritmo, aggiornamento pre-elezione

by Claudio Agosti

l'analisi dell'algoritmo di facebook procede, ogni giorno, in ogni nazione, poco a poco. ma solo durante alcune fasi più critiche è facile parlarne. Le elezioni sono uno di quei momenti, così qualche mese fa, un gruppetto di volontari (per lo più su Torino) si è unito per realizzare https://elezioni.tracking.exposed Il progetto ha tre tipi di analisi: - come l'algorimot distorce la percezione della realtà: 6 profili che seguono le stesse 30 fonti, tutti con 0 amici, tutti che accedono agli stessi momenti della giornata, solo dei like d'orientamente differenti - analisi dei traccianti web presenti sui link condivisi - raccolta collaborativa di tutti i post sponsorizzati Alcuni brevi pezzi d'analisi sono questi: http://it.euronews.com/2018/02/20/come-si-informa-un-fascista-su-facebook-c… https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/vbp7bd/come-aprire-la-scatola-nera-… https://medium.com/@_vecna/algoritmo-di-facebook-ha-deciso-che-i-fascistoid… https://medium.com/@_vecna/se-30-fonti-pubblicano-in-media-700-post-al-gior… Abbiamo provato anche una comunicazione più potabile con: http://elezionitrackingexposed2018.wordpress.com/ Trivia fact: M5S e Salvini sono *spammer professionisti*. I dataset sono liberi, naturalmente, ecco l'ultimo: https://elezioni.tracking.exposed/campaign/opendata/merge-20-02-2018.json.gz Buone cose, e, * installatevi l'estensione per il browser ;)* Claudio -- Claudio Agosti, https://facebook.tracking.exposed - https://twitter.com/_vecna PGP mail: claudio﹫tracking・exposed - key here https://keybase.io/vecna

Feb. 21, 2018

Re: [nexa] Elezioni e hacker: i cyberattacchi influenzeranno il voto, ma non troppo

by Giacomo Tesio

Un buon articolo divulgativo, un po' scarso di link esterni, per approfondire. Sarei curioso di leggere qualcosa dello studio del professor Quattrociocchi, per esempio. Quanto agli attacchi informatici alle infrastrutture critiche, non saprei... non saprei proprio... Per essere efficaci, l'informatica dovrebbe essere un componente strutturale dei processi operativi. Sospetto che se lo fosse, alcune infrastrutture sarebbero molto più efficienti. Forse non sono poi così vulnerabili. Giacomo PS: hacker? Hacker?!? Tu quoque, Brute! :-D Il giorno 21 febbraio 2018 16:35, A Dicorinto <arturo.dicorinto(a)uniroma1.it> ha scritto: > Cari amici, volevo condividere il mio commento sul rischio cyber in > campagna elettorale. > Eccolo. Feedback welcome. > A. > > Elezioni e hacker: i cyberattacchi influenzeranno il voto, ma non troppo > https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/02/21/elezioni-e- > hacker-i-cyberattacchi-influenzeranno-il-voto-ma-non-troppo/4178113/ > > -- > > Arturo Di Corinto > www.dicorinto.it > ---------------------------------> > > AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in > questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da > considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito > esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel > messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il > destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di > procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro > sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, > distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità > diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. > 196/2003 > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > >

Feb. 21, 2018

Elezioni e hacker: i cyberattacchi influenzeranno il voto, ma non troppo

by A Dicorinto

Cari amici, volevo condividere il mio commento sul rischio cyber in campagna elettorale. Eccolo. Feedback welcome. A. Elezioni e hacker: i cyberattacchi influenzeranno il voto, ma non troppo https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/02/21/elezioni-e-hacker-i-cyberattacc… -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

Feb. 21, 2018

Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology

by Alberto Cammozzo

White paper di EFF sull'uso del riconoscimento facciale nel law enforcement. <https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition> Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement’s use of it is increasing rapidly. Today, law enforcement officers can use mobile devices to capture face recognition-ready photographs of people they stop on the street; surveillance cameras boast real-time face scanning and identification capabilities; and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have access to hundreds of millions of images of faces of law-abiding Americans. On the horizon, law enforcement would like to use face recognition with body-worn cameras, to identify people in the dark, to match a person to a police sketch, or even to construct an image of a person’s face from a small sample of their DNA. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse. This has led to the development of unproven, inaccurate systems that will impinge on constitutional rights and disproportionately impact people of color. Without restrictive limits in place, it could be relatively easy for the government and private companies to build databases of images of the vast majority of people living in the United States and use those databases to identify and track people in real time as they move from place to place throughout their daily lives. As researchers at Georgetown posited in 2016, one out of two Americans is already in a face recognition database accessible to law enforcement.^1 <https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition#_idTextAnchor030> This white paper takes a broad look at the problems with law enforcement use of face recognition technology in the United States. Part 1 <https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition#_idTextAnchor003> provides an overview of the key issues with face recognition, including accuracy, security, and impact on privacy and civil rights. Part 2 <https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition#_idTextAnchor009> focuses on FBI’s face recognition programs, because FBI not only manages the repository for most of the criminal data used by federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies across the United States, but also provides direct face recognition services to many of these agencies, and its systems exemplify the wider problems with face recognition. After considering these current issues, Part 3 <https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition#_idTextAnchor016> looks ahead to potential future face recognition capabilities and concerns. Finally, Part 4 <https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition#_idTextAnchor017> presents recommendations for policy makers on the limits and checks necessary to ensure that law enforcement use of face recognition respects civil liberties.

Feb. 20, 2018

Beware of Google's Intentions

by Alberto Cammozzo

Susan Crawford ci mette in guarda sui rischi del coinvolgimento di Google nell'urban planning e IoT per le citta In partnering with local governments to create infrastructure, Alphabet says it is only trying to help. Local governments shouldn’t believe it. <https://www.wired.com/story/sidewalk-labs-toronto-google-risks/> Chicago handed over control of its parking meters to a cadre of private investors. Officials pitched the deal as an innovative win-win. In exchange for a 75-year lease, the cash-strapped city got a lump sum. In fact, that large upfront payment was far less than the meters’ potential revenue—it was more than $1 billion too low <https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/one-billion-dollars-parking-meter-fia…>. In an upcoming article <http://law.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/law/files/reclaiming_fiduciary_la…>, professors Max Schanzenbach and Nadav Shoked of Northwestern Law School point out that the city got away with that bad deal, in part, because it was a city. Schanzenbach and Shoked argue that if a private corporation had done what Chicago did—entering into an arrangement aimed at solving "short-term financial problems, without properly considering the long-term implications of the deal," as Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General put it at the time—it would have been sued for violating its duty of care. The distinction may seem small, but as cities become embroiled with private companies, promising to fund and build city infrastructure, it’s worth ironing out what obligations a city owes its residents. Beginning last fall, Toronto has been getting a flood of publicity <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/world/canada/google-toronto-city-future.…> about a deal with Sidewalk Labs <https://www.wired.com/story/google-sidewalk-labs-toronto-quayside/>, part of Google spinoff Alphabet <https://www.wired.com/tag/alphabet/>. Reports describe the deal as giving Sidewalk the authority to build in an undeveloped 12-acre portion of the city called Quayside. The idea is that Sidewalk will collect data about everything from water use to air quality to the perambulations of Quayside's future populace and use that data to run energy, transport, and all other systems. Swarms of sensors inside and outside buildings and on streets will be constantly on duty, monitoring and modulating. But Toronto recently revealed <http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/getMeetingMonitor.do?function=doPrepare&meeting…> that deal has put it in a tough place. A nonprofit development corporation, not the city, made the arrangement with Google that sparked all the publicity—the city itself doesn't appear to have known a deal with Google was in the works. Now the situation appears messy: The details of the arrangement are not public, the planning process is being paid for by Google, and Google won’t continue funding that process unless government authorities promise they’ll reach a final agreement that aligns with Google’s interests. Those interests include Google's desire to expand its Toronto experiments beyond that 12-acre Quayside plot. Toronto, like Chicago, seems to be holding too few of the cards. Yet the city still has a chance to act as a good steward by avoiding the long-term risks that come with involving Google in urban planning. [..]

Feb. 20, 2018

Venezuela launches state-owned cryptocurrency

by Enrico Bergamini

Buonasera, Vi lascio un paio di spunti interessanti sul lancio di Petro, criptovaluta venezuelana "coperta" da petrolio, mi pare non fosse ancora passato in lista. https://qz.com/1211135/cryptocurrency-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-la… https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/19/venezuelas-new-bitcoin-n-inge… Saluti, Enrico -- Enrico Bergamini http://enricobergamini.it "All that we are is the result of what we have thought"

Feb. 20, 2018