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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

<https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/>

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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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Finanziamento tesi dottorato CNRS 'Modélisation des dynamiques de la désinformation en ligne'
by Francesca Musiani June 13, 2019

June 13, 2019

Buongiorno, mi permetto di inviare, in allegato, l'annuncio di un finanziamento per una tesi di dottorato in co-supervisione con il mio laboratorio CNRS. Cordiali saluti, Francesca -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <http://cis.cnrs.fr> [CIS], UPR 2000 Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cp-t>-IAMCR | @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> | ISOC Franc <https://www.isoc.fr>e <https://www.isoc.fr> | CSA Lab <https://www.csa.fr/Informer/CSA-lab/Fonctionnement> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> On the Web <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1960> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Killing Antitrust Softly (Through Procedure) – Law and Political Economy
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 12, 2019

June 12, 2019

The Supreme Court has waged a multi-decade war on private rights of action. It has subverted the rights of consumers, workers, small businesses, and others to hold corporations accountable for wrongdoing through lawsuits. The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has been a preferred tool of the Court. Since the 1980s, it has reinvented this modest statute, converting the FAA into a quasi-constitutional sledgehammer for corporations to wield against private lawsuits, especially class actions. And the evisceration of private enforcement of law goes beyond arbitration. The Court has rewritten class certification, pleading, and summary judgment standards to help businesses ward off private lawsuits and accountability. https://lpeblog.org/2019/06/11/killing-antitrust-softly-through-procedure/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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NYTimes.com: Want to See My Genes? Get a Warrant
by Alberto Cammozzo June 12, 2019

June 12, 2019

From The New York Times: Want to See My Genes? Get a Warrant Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime, no matter how minor? <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/police-dna-warrant.html>

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IEEE Spectrum - Untold History of AI
by Stefano Zacchiroli June 11, 2019

June 11, 2019

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/AI+history The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What’s lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds and bodies. In this six-part series, we explore that human history of AI—how innovators, thinkers, workers, and sometimes hucksters have created algorithms that can replicate human thought and behavior (or at least appear to). While it can be exciting to be swept up by the idea of superintelligent computers that have no need for human input, the true history of smart machines shows that our AI is only as good as we are. Niente di particolarmente profondo o nuovo, ma molti aneddoti carini scritti in modo spigliato e quindi piacevoli da leggere. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack(a)upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »

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