January 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

"Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism* /By Nicholas Carr/ JANUARY 15, 2019 I. The Resurrection WE SOMETIMES FORGET that, at the turn of the century, Silicon Valley was in a funk, economic and psychic. The great dot-com bubble of the 1990s had imploded, destroying vast amounts of investment capital along with the savings of many Americans. Trophy startups like Pets.com, Webvan, and Excite@Home, avatars of the so-called New Economy, were punch lines. Disillusioned programmers and entrepreneurs were abandoning their Bay Area bedsits and decamping. Venture funding had dried up. As a business proposition, the information superhighway was looking like a cul-de-sac. Today, less than 20 years on, everything has changed. The top American internet companies are among the most profitable and highly capitalized businesses in history. Not only do they dominate the technology industry but they have much of the world economy in their grip. Their founders and early backers sit atop Rockefeller-sized fortunes. Cities and states court them with billions of dollars in tax breaks and other subsidies. Bright young graduates covet their jobs. Along with their financial clout, the internet giants hold immense social and cultural sway, influencing how all of us think, act, and converse. Silicon Valley’s Phoenix-like resurrection is a story of ingenuity and initiative. It is also a story of callousness, predation, and deceit. Harvard Business School professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff argues in her new book that the Valley’s wealth and power are predicated on an insidious, essentially pathological form of private enterprise — what she calls “surveillance capitalism.” Pioneered by Google, perfected by Facebook, and now spreading throughout the economy, surveillance capitalism uses human life as its raw material. Our everyday experiences, distilled into data, have become a privately owned business asset used to predict and mold our behavior, whether we’re shopping or socializing, working or voting. [...] continua qui: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-fa…

Jan. 16, 2019

No forced facial recognition to unlock phones: judge

by Alberto Cammozzo

Cosa avrebbe detto il giudice se i dati fossero stati cifrati sul dispositivo e non accessibili presso il provider? Vedremo cosa dirà la corte suprema... <https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/15/government-cant-force-people-to-unlo…> [] The Oakland judge said allowing authorities to force citizens to unlock devices via biometric features in this case would violate the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search. The government’s request for intrusion into seized devices was too broad because it targeted anyone at the Oakland location believed to be a user of a seized device and wasn’t limited to the two suspects, Westmore said. Permitting forced biometric unlocking in this case would also break the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination, Westmore said, noting that courts have ruled that people can’t be forced to reveal a numeric passcode to a device. “While the Court sympathizes with the Government’s interest in accessing the contents of any electronic devices it might lawfully seize, there are other ways that the Government might access the content that do not trample on the Fifth Amendment,” Westmore wrote. Authorities could seek Messenger communications from Facebook, with a warrant if need be, she suggested. “While it may he more expedient to circumvent Facebook, and attempt to gain access by infringing on the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination, it is an abuse of power and is unconstitutional,” Westmore wrote. Law enforcement agencies routinely obtain data from seized devices by getting subpoenas, warrants and court orders compelling tech firms to divulge information. Police also use software to break into seized devices they have a warrant to search. But the government can’t force citizens to use any biometric features to unlock devices, Westmore ruled. “The Government may not compel or otherwise utilize fingers, thumbs, facial recognition, optical/iris, or any other biometric feature to unlock electronic devices,” she said in her Jan. 10 decision. []

Jan. 16, 2019

Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines

by Alberto Cammozzo

La donna che inventò l'inverse document frequency (TF/IDF è una misura fondamentale per chi fa analisi testuale). Sparck Jones [] came up with a slogan: “Computing is too important to be left to men.” [] Sparck Jones cautioned engineers to think of their work’s impact on society. “There is an interaction between the context and the programming task itself,” she said. “You don’t need a fundamental philosophical discussion every time you put finger to keyboard, but as computing is spreading so far into people’s lives, you need to think about these things.” <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/obituaries/karen-sparck-jones-overlooked…> Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines A pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field. <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/obituaries/karen-sparck-jones-overlooked…> /Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With //Overlooked/ <https://nytimes.com/overlooked>/, we’re adding the stories of remarkable people whose deaths went unreported in The Times./ By Nellie Bowles When most scientists were trying to make people use code to talk to computers, Karen Sparck Jones taught computers to understand human language instead. In so doing, her technology established the basis of search engines like Google. A self-taught programmer with a focus on natural language processing, and an advocate for women in the field, Sparck Jones also foreshadowed by decades Silicon Valley’s current reckoning, warning about the risks of technology being led by computer scientists who were not attuned to its social implications. “A lot of the stuff she was working on until five or 10 years ago seemed like mad nonsense, and now we take it for granted,” said John Tait, a longtime friend who works with the British Computer Society. Sparck Jones’s seminal 1972 paper in the Journal of Documentation laid the groundwork for the modern search engine. In it, she combined statistics with linguistics — an unusual approach at the time — to establish formulas that embodied principles for how computers could interpret relationships between words. By 2007, Sparck Jones said, “pretty much every web engine uses those principles.” “Anything that does index-term weighting using any kind of statistical information will be using a weighting function that I published in 1972,” she said in an interview with the British Computer Society <https://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/10791>. Karen Ida Boalth Sparck Jones was born on Aug. 26, 1935, in Huddersfield, England, a textile manufacturing town. Her parents were Alfred Owen Jones, a chemistry lecturer, and Ida Sparck, who worked for the Norwegian government while in exile in London during World War II. When studying history and then philosophy (the department was then called moral sciences) at Cambridge, she met the head of the Cambridge Language Research Unit, Margaret Masterman, who would inspire her to enter the field. Sparck Jones later describe <http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones>d her as “a very strange and interesting woman” who, unusual for the time, used her maiden name professionally. Sparck Jones, too, kept her name when she married Roger Needham <https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/business/roger-needham-computer-security…>, a fellow computer scientist, in 1958, saying, “It maintains a permanent existence of your own.” Sparck Jones started working for Ms. Masterman. She wanted to figure out how to program a computer to understand words that could have many meanings (for example “field”) and set about programming a massive thesaurus. “A lot of the stuff she was working on until five or 10 years ago seemed like mad nonsense, and now we take it for granted,” John Tait, of the British Computer Society, said about Sparck Jones.CreditComputer Laboratory/University of Cambridge“All words in a natural language are ambiguous; they have multiple senses,” she said in anoral history interview for the History Center of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. “How do you find out which sense they’ve got in any particular use?” In 1964, Sparck Jones published “Synonymy and Semantic Classification,” which is now seen as a foundational paper in the field of natural language processing. In 1972, she introduced the concept of inverse document frequency, which counts the number of times a term is used in a document in order to determine the term’s importance; it, too, is a foundation of modern search engines. Sparck Jones began working on early speech recognition systems in the 1980s. Most mornings and afternoons, she and her husband, a pioneer in software security, debated theory in the Cambridge department’s tea room. Their home in Coton, just west of Cambridge, was full of books, art and found items, like an interesting piece of driftwood or a Victorian-era knife grinder. They had a second house in the same village, using it to store the overflow of their book collection and as her artist’s arch Lab. Sailing was another passion of Sparck Jones and Needham. They restored an 1872 vintage sailboat called Fanny of Cowes <http://www.oga.org.uk/boat/fanny-cowes> and raced it against other old boats along the east coast of England. They chose not to have children. “They wanted their intellectual life,” said Andrew Herbert, her friend and a fellow computer scientist. “They were clearly deeply in love with each other all the way through their life.” Sparck Jones had a booming voice and a puckish sense of humor. At work, she usually wore a simple uniform: bluejeans, red sweater, white blouse. She also wore a brooch, which she made from stones and part of a horseshoe. When she had to bike to a formal dinner, as one often did at Cambridge, she was known to use clothing pegs to pin her dress to the handlebars. In 1982, the British government tapped Sparck Jones to work on the Alvey Program, an initiative to encourage more computer science research across the country. In 1993, she wrote, with Julia R. Galliers, “Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems,” the seminal textbook on the topic. <https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540613091> Sparck Jones became president of the Association for Computational Linguistics, an international group for professionals in the field, in 1994. She became a full-time professor at Cambridge in 1999 — and it had bothered her that it took so long. For all the years before, she had been on contract with the university, an untenured and lower-status form of academic employment referred to as “living on soft money.” “Cambridge was in many ways not user-friendly, in the sense of women-friendly,” she said of the delay. Sparck Jones died of cancer on April 4, 2007. She was 71. Though she did not receive an obituary in The Times, her husband did, in 2003 <https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/business/roger-needham-computer-security…>. Today, researchers are still citing her formulas. Ideas she wrote about are now being put into practice as artificial intelligence research becomes more prevalent. “It points to how far ahead of her time she was, how consequential her work was, how little it was valued for the first 20 years,” said Martha Palmer, a professor in the Linguistics and Computer Science departments at the University of Colorado. Sparck Jones mentored a generation of researchers, male and female,and came up with a slogan: “Computing is too important to be left to men.” She was ahead of her time in another respect. Decades before Silicon Valley was having its moral reckoning, Sparck Jones cautioned engineers to think of their work’s impact on society. “There is an interaction between the context and the programming task itself,” she said. “You don’t need a fundamental philosophical discussion every time you put finger to keyboard, but as computing is spreading so far into people’s lives, you need to think about these things.”

Jan. 15, 2019

Article 13 is almost finished – and it will change the internet as we know it

by Giacomo Tesio

Da https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/article-13-almost-finished/ ``` Negotiations about the EU copyright reform law have resumed: After missing the original Christmas deadline, negotiators for the European Parliament and Council are now aiming to finalise the text on January 21, 2019. The negotiators have reached agreement on the core of Article 13, which will change the internet as we know it: They want to make internet platforms directly liable for any copyright infringements their users commit. What remains to be decided: Exactly what lengths will platforms need to go to to avoid or limit their liability? Just how much they will need to restrict our ability to post and share our creations online? ``` Oltre 10 anni fa, se non ricordo male, fu trafugato parte del codice sorgente di Windows (credo che fosse XP, ma vado a memoria). Sarebbe divertente vedere Microsoft responsabile della violazione del proprio copyright da parte di un utente se quel sorgente fosse uploadato su GitHub... :-) Giacomo

Jan. 15, 2019

Il matching algoritmico al potere: Gilets Jaunes e populismo social

by Antonio Casilli

La Fondation Jean-Jaurès (vicina a quel che resta del Parti Socialiste, quindi sappiate applicare le ponderazioni politiche del caso) pubblica nell'Obs (settimanale centrista) una lunga nota in due parti sulla genealogia digitale del movimento dei Gilets Jaunes. Une prima parte presenta una carrellata storica delle pagine Facebook più frequentate e si sofferma sul ruolo dell'algoritmo di Facebook nell'impennata della visibilità del movimento: > "Questo riorientamento emotivo e geografico nella prioritizzazione delle informazioni su Facebook è un importante punto di svolta. Il fatto che Priscillia > Ludosky ed Eric Drouet, i due utilizzatori dietro l'iniziativa di mobilitazione online, provengano dallo stesso dipartimento non è una coincidenza. Non si > conoscevano: è stato il nuovo algoritmo di Facebook che li ha messi in contatto, individuando interessi comuni e vicinanza spaziale. La diffusione del > movimento nelle province ha seguito la stessa logica e lo stesso meccanismo." https://www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20190111.OBS8351/plongee-dans-les-compt… La seconda parte contiene invece un'analisi dettagliata delle strategie di comunicazione sui social di Eric Drouet e Maxime Nicolle, due leader di fatto, parecchio orientati a destra, di un movimento che si vuole "senza leader" e "né di destra né di sinistra". > "Anche se preferiscono definirsi come semplici "messaggeri delle rivendicazioni popolari", presentano in realtà tutti gli attributi dei leader 2.0: liberi > da intermediari, non eletti, mai ufficialmente indotti, ma legittimati dal pubblico generato dai loro video. A questo proposito, i loro ripetuti appelli a > non nominare dei dirigenti suonano sempre più come il desiderio di impedire l'emergere di un nome che non sarebbe il loro." https://www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20190114.OBS8414/eric-drouet-et-maxime-…

Jan. 14, 2019

"Automating Society"

by fabio chiusi

Segnalo perché credo in lista possa interessare: il 29 gennaio viene presentato al Parlamento Europeo un rapporto di Algorithm Watch sull'automated decision-making (ADM) in Europa, e in 12 paesi in particolare (io ho curato la parte sull'Italia). Sul rapporto: "For the report “Automating Society – Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU”, our experts have looked at the situation at the EU level but also in 12 Member States: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. We assessed not only the political discussions and initiatives in these countries but also present a section “ADM in Action” for all states, listing examples of automated decision-making already in use." Altre informazioni, qui: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automating-society/ f.

Jan. 14, 2019

66° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 23 gennaio 2019

by Nexa Media

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-66> NEXA 66° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 23 gennaio 2019, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-66 AI Oracle 2081 Speaker Piera Riccio (Politecnico di Torino) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Quando si parla di tecnologia, automazione, intelligenza artificiale e le loro implementazioni nella nostra realtà quotidiana, è necessario avere una consapevolezza di quale potrà essere *il futuro della società umana*, specialmente per quanto riguarda il mondo del lavoro. Sin dall'antichità, l’essere umano ha consultato oracoli al fine di cercare una guida per l'interpretazione del proprio futuro. Ma se la tecnologia è diventata così intelligente, allora *perché non interpellare l’intelligenza artificiale stessa?* AI Oracle 2081 <https://aioracle.info/> simula una realtà distopica in cui a ogni essere umano verrà assegnato il lavoro ideale, scelto a seconda di alcuni dati sensibili analizzati da un’intelligenza artificiale. Si tratta un’*installazione artistica interattiva *che mira a spronare i visitatori a riflettere su alcune problematiche etiche riguardanti gli eventuali pregiudizi degli algoritmi intelligenti e sulle conseguenze che questi ultimi possano avere nei contesti in cui vengono implementati processi decisionali autonomi. /Ingresso libero - Sarà disponibile un leggero rinfresco per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch66.eventbrite.com entro il 21 gennaio./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [RICCIO] *Piera RICCIO* ha 22 anni e proviene da San Potito Sannitico, un piccolo paese di montagna in provincia di Caserta. All’età di 19 anni si è trasferita a Torino, iscrivendosi al corso di laurea triennale in Ingegneria del Cinema e dei Mezzi di Comunicazione presso il Politecnico, concludendo il percorso nel 2018. Nell’estate del 2017, è stata intern presso il Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University). Da sempre è particolarmente interessata allo sviluppo tecnologico e alle sue possibili intersezioni con altri ambiti della società, infatti è attualmente iscritta al corso di laurea magistrale in ICT for Smart Societies. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Joy Buolamwini, /How I'm fighting bias in algorithms <https://www.ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini_how_i_m_fighting_bias_in_algorithm…>/, (TED Talk). * AI Now 2017, /Report. <https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2017_Report.pdf>/. * Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, /Machine Bias <https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-crimina…>/, ProPublica. * /AI and the future of work <https://www.wired.com/wiredinsider/2018/04/ai-future-work/>/, Wired. * James Vincent, /Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech <https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-gorillas-photo-re…>/, The Verge. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” #lunch66 <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23lunch66&src=typd> #aioracle <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23aioracle&src=typd> #ai4art <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23ai4art&src=typd> Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Francesco Ruggiero*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 349 1335082, francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved>.

Jan. 14, 2019

Re: [nexa] Internet Governance Forum, i cittadini possono disegnare il futuro della rete

by Arturo Di Corinto

Hai fatto bene, come ti dicevo su twitter, è l'unico modo secondo me di affrontare il tema che ti sta a cuore: portarlo a una audience di esperti globale. cheers Il giorno lun 14 gen 2019 alle ore 10:34 Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it> ha scritto: > Ciao Arturo, grazie della segnalazione. > > Ho doverosamente fornito il mio contributo nella call for issues, > alla sezione "Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy" > https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/igf-2019-proposed-issues > > > Automatic execution of customizable JavaScript by Web browsers > > leave people vulnerable to a wide class of undetectable attacks > > that WHATWG members is refusing to address (or inform > > stakeholders about) > > > Detailed informations about this wide class of attacks (currently > > exploited in the wide by the Russian Government, for example) > > with some of the possible mitigations are described in the > > Mozilla bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081 > > > > Such undetectable attacks pose serious issues to legal enforceability > > of digital forensics, allow to tunnel into private networks through > > the browser despite firewall and proxy (see > > https://rain-1.github.io/in-browser-localhostdiscovery ) and so on. > > > > Though, the reaction of organizations like Mozilla and Chromium > > (both strongly bound to Google) shows we have a wide worse > > security issue here: the trust that people give to these organizations. > > Non so se condividere il tuo ottimismo sul fatto che questi problemi > vengano affrontati, ma tentare non nuoce. > > > Giacomo > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 09:10, Arturo Di Corinto > <arturo.dicorinto(a)uniroma1.it> wrote: > > > > Per i nexiani, da Repubblica-- > > > > Internet Governance Forum, i cittadini possono disegnare il futuro della > rete > > > > È online la call per partecipare alla definizione dei temi e delle > proposte da portare a Berlino all'Internet Governance Forum, il > "parlamento" che ogni anno discute a livello mondiale la direzione dello > sviluppo della rete. E l'Italia prova a organizzarsi > > > > di ARTURO DI CORINTO > > > > > https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/sicurezza/2019/01/09/news/internet_gov… > > > > Aggiunta importante. > > Poche ore fa è venuta a mancare una nostra amica, Antonella Giulia > Pizzaleo, con cui abbiamo condiviso un pezzo di percorso dell'IGF. > L'articolo, scritto prima della notizia, lo dedico a lei. > > A. > > > > -- > > > > 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 > -- 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

Jan. 14, 2019

Re: [nexa] Internet Governance Forum, i cittadini possono disegnare il futuro della rete

by Giacomo Tesio

Ciao Arturo, grazie della segnalazione. Ho doverosamente fornito il mio contributo nella call for issues, alla sezione "Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy" https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/igf-2019-proposed-issues > Automatic execution of customizable JavaScript by Web browsers > leave people vulnerable to a wide class of undetectable attacks > that WHATWG members is refusing to address (or inform > stakeholders about) > Detailed informations about this wide class of attacks (currently > exploited in the wide by the Russian Government, for example) > with some of the possible mitigations are described in the > Mozilla bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081 > > Such undetectable attacks pose serious issues to legal enforceability > of digital forensics, allow to tunnel into private networks through > the browser despite firewall and proxy (see > https://rain-1.github.io/in-browser-localhostdiscovery ) and so on. > > Though, the reaction of organizations like Mozilla and Chromium > (both strongly bound to Google) shows we have a wide worse > security issue here: the trust that people give to these organizations. Non so se condividere il tuo ottimismo sul fatto che questi problemi vengano affrontati, ma tentare non nuoce. Giacomo On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 09:10, Arturo Di Corinto <arturo.dicorinto(a)uniroma1.it> wrote: > > Per i nexiani, da Repubblica-- > > Internet Governance Forum, i cittadini possono disegnare il futuro della rete > > È online la call per partecipare alla definizione dei temi e delle proposte da portare a Berlino all'Internet Governance Forum, il "parlamento" che ogni anno discute a livello mondiale la direzione dello sviluppo della rete. E l'Italia prova a organizzarsi > > di ARTURO DI CORINTO > > https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/sicurezza/2019/01/09/news/internet_gov… > > Aggiunta importante. > Poche ore fa è venuta a mancare una nostra amica, Antonella Giulia Pizzaleo, con cui abbiamo condiviso un pezzo di percorso dell'IGF. L'articolo, scritto prima della notizia, lo dedico a lei. > A. > > -- > > 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

Jan. 14, 2019

Re: [nexa] Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian

by Stefano Quintarelli

scusa, rileggendo mi rendo conto che era equivoco. no, concordo con l'articolo. la "AI fantasy" e' funzionale ad un benaltrismo tecnologico On 13/01/2019 19:14, Enrico Nardelli wrote: > > Scusa Stefano, non capisco, secondo te l'articolo è "benaltrismo > tecnologico"? > > Ciao, Enrico > > > Il 13/01/2019 15:51, Stefano Quintarelli ha scritto: >> benaltrismo tecnologico >> >> perche' preoccuparsi ora di cose di dettaglio come fare regole >> procompetitive, di tassazione, di equita' del lavoro, di >> responsabilità, ecc. ? >> >> ben altri sono i problemi! non avremo piu' lavoro, societa', stati, ecc. >> (intanto, pero', io fatturo...) >> >> >> >> On 13/01/2019 15:05, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: >>> >>> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/13/dont-believe-the-hype… >>> >>> >>> >>> (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any)) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nexa mailing list >>> nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >>> https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >>> >> > > -- EN > > ===================================================================== > Prof. Enrico Nardelli > Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" > Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma > tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 > mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it > home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli > blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ > http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ > ===================================================================== -- Sent with Disk Term on my TRS-80 Model 1 reserve your meeting with me at http://cal.quintarelli.it

Jan. 13, 2019