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presentazione volume di Ausiello
by Angelo Raffaele Meo June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

caro JC, io sono disponibile a presentare il volume "The making of a new science di Giorgio Ausiello". Egli è: Editor-in-C ef of the journal Theoretical Computer Science Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer LNCS series Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science Member of Editorial board of Computer Science Review Member of Editorial board of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science Member of the Technical Committee on Foundations of Computer Science (TC1) International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Member of Academia Europaea since 1996 In 2014 has been nominated Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Raf

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Hong Kong
by don Luca Peyron June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

Grande fratello con occhi a mandorla, manifestazioni e libertà di espressione in salsa cinese Buona lettura Dl https://www.agi.it/blog-italia/riccardo-luna/hong_kong_protesta_tecnologie_…

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NYT: "U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

*U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid** * By David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth June 15, 2019 WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said. In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections. [...] continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html

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70° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 26 giugno 2019
by Nexa Media June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-70> NEXA 70° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 26 giugno 2019, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-70 Understanding Airbnb in Southern European cities Speaker Chiara Iacovone (Future Urban Legacy lab) This event will be webcast live: https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air Short-term rental platforms are strongly present in the current debate over socio-spatial dynamics of contemporary cities as commodifying actors of public and private spaces. *Airbnb, as the most ubiquitous and pervasive of these platforms*, is being scrutinized by the press and by academics. The purpose of this project is to question the economic structure of Airbnb and to unveil hidden phenomena as dynamics in the ongoing polarization of society, and therefore *interpreting Airbnb as an indicator of social discomfort and precariousness rather than of innovation*. Assuming this statement, the discourse regarding platform urbanism could be implemented and considered an additional tool to investigate inequalities in cities, giving relevance to place-based information and what it can possibly imply in a human geographical perspective. The paper focuses on post-crisis cities, in particular on a set of major Southern European ones (Athens, Thessaloniki, Palermo, Naples, Lisbon, Porto, Seville, Madrid) so as *to trace and visualize specific socio-spatial effects of the economic crisis *through the analysis of platform urbanization. The results will be shown with the aim of collecting cases and comparing them, to obtain a broader frame to analyze the phenomenon. /Ingresso libero - Sarà disponibile un leggero rinfresco per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch70.eventbrite.com entro il 24 giugno./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [Iacovone] *Chiara IACOVONE* is a PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Development at Polytechnic of Turin and member of the interdepartmental center Future Urban Legacy Lab <https://full.polito.it/>. Her research project focuses on the analysis of financialization of housing market through sharing economies in Southern European cities. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Aalbers, M. B. (2016). /The financialization of housing: A political economy approach/. Routledge. * Hadjimichalis, C. (2017). /Crisis spaces: Structures, struggles and solidarity in Southern Europe/. Routledge. * Marcuse, P., & Madden, D. (2016)./In defense of housing: The politics of crisis/. Verso Books. * Slee, T. (2017). /What's yours is mine: Against the Sharing Economy/. Or Books. * Wachsmuth, D., & Weisler, A. (2018). /Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space/, 50(6), 1147-1170. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” <https://www.facebook.com/nexa.center/> <https://twitter.com/nexacenter> <https://www.youtube.com/user/NexaCenter> #nexalunchseminar <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexalunchseminar&src=typd> #chiaraiacovone <https://twitter.com/chiara_iacovone> #FULL <https://twitter.com/urbanlegacylab> 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. 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Bitcoin causing CO2 emissions comparable to Hamburg
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

Nuova evidenza sul problema della sostenibilità ambientale di Bitcoin, stavolta fornita da ricercatori della Technische Universität München https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35499/ AV == Sent from my wireless device ==

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Joseph Choonara reviews Zuboff "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 15, 2019

June 15, 2019

/"There is much to admire in Zuboff’s work, particularly the mass of evidence she assembles. However, her single-minded obsession leads to a common pitfall in literature of this kind. It is one thing to identify a central feature of contemporary capitalism, quite another to announce a new paradigm — the “new economic order” of surveillance capitalism — that shades all other aspects of the system.// // //Such an approach involves minimising criticisms of earlier phases of capitalism and downplaying the extent to which the tech giants are simply outgrowths of capitalist logic."// / jc *The logic of capital online** * June 2019 (447) By Joseph Choonara *Shoshana Zuboff’s new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, explores the world of the giant tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon. We all know they collect our data for profitable uses; how deeply does this affect capitalist relations, asks Joseph Choonara.* ** I was part of the last generation in Britain to experience childhood before the Internet. It still seemed miraculous when, in the mid-1990s, it became possible to browse the Web, using search engines such as Altavista and Lycos — Google being as yet neither a search engine nor a verb. The Internet had none of the pervasiveness it has today. Mobile phones, for those who had them, were mostly used for phone calls. Beyond my university computer room, going online meant using a dial-up modem with speeds one thousandth of my current connection. [...] continua qui: http://socialistreview.org.uk/447/logic-capital-online

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You (probably) don’t need ReCAPTCHA | kevv.net
by Alberto Cammozzo June 15, 2019

June 15, 2019

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Premio tesi di laurea o di dottorato su DP e innovazione
by Monica A. Senor June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019

Con piacere, su richiesta del Centro studi privacy e nuove tecnologie, segnalo in lista la seconda edizione del premio per la miglior tesi di laurea o di dottorato sui temi della protezione dei dati e dell’innovazione tecnologica promossa dalla predetta associazione. Deadline 31 luglio 2019. Un caro saluto, Monica

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[Equiliber] Potersi fidare dei client con Intel SGX
by Stefano Quintarelli June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019

segnalo PAPER1: https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/users/goltzsch/papers/eurosec2017-trustjs.pdf Client-side JavaScript has become ubiquitous in web applicationsto improve user experience and reduce server load. However, sinceclients are untrusted, servers cannot rely on the confidentiality orintegrity of client-side JavaScript code and the data that it operateson. For example, client-side input validation must be repeated atserver side, and confidential business logic cannot be offloaded. Inthis paper, we presentTRUSTJS, a framework that enables trust-worthy execution of security-sensitive JavaScript inside commoditybrowsers.TRUSTJSleverages trusted hardware support providedby Intel SGX to protect the client-side execution of JavaScript, en-abling a flexible partitioning of web application code. We presentthe design ofTRUSTJSand provide initial evaluation results, show-ing that trustworthy JavaScript offloading can further improve userexperience and conserve more server resources. PAPER2: https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/users/goltzsch/papers/dsn18-endbox.pdf Many organisations enhance the performance, secu-rity, and functionality of their managed networks by deployingmiddleboxescentrally as part of their core network. While thissimplifies maintenance, it also increases cost because middleboxhardware must scale with the number of clients. A promisingalternative is to outsource middlebox functions to the clientsthemselves, thus leveraging their CPU resources. Such an ap-proach, however, raises security challenges for critical middleboxfunctions such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems.We describe ENDBOX, a system that securely executes mid-dlebox functions on client machines at the network edge. Itsdesign combines a virtual private network (VPN) with middleboxfunctions that are hardware-protected by a trusted executionenvironment (TEE), as offered by Intel’s Software Guard Exten-sions (SGX). By maintaining VPN connection endpoints insideSGX enclaves, ENDBOXensures that all client traffic, includingencrypted communication, is processed by the middlebox. Despiteits decentralised model, ENDBOX’s middlebox functions remainmaintainable: they are centrally controlled and can be updatedefficiently. We demonstrate ENDBOXwith two scenarios involving(i) a large company; and (ii) an Internet service provider thatboth need to protect their network and connected clients. Weevaluate ENDBOXby comparing it to centralised deployments ofcommon middlebox functions, such as load balancing, intrusiondetection, firewalling, and DDoS prevention. We show thatENDBOXachieves up to3.8×higher throughput and scaleslinearly with the number of clients. -- Marco "Now produce your explanation, and pray make it improbable!" _______________________________________________ Equiliber mailing list Equiliber(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/equiliber

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Hong Kong's digital battle: tech that helped protesters now used against them | World news | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/14/hong-kongs-digital-battle-tec…>

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