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Riley Dankovich

How the Government Is Tracking Your Movements | American Civil Liberties Union - 1 views

www.aclu.org/rnment-tracking-your-movements

tracking LittleBrother

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  • Riley Dankovich on 02 Oct 14
     
    This article, though very clearly biased, describes the ways in which the movements of citizens are being tracked by both technology and the police. The video/information slides are obviously carried out with bias, but the information is still there. The end of the article has some interesting (helpful?) information about what the judicial system is ruling on cases involving location tracking without warrants.
mackense

BBC News - Who is winning the 'crypto-war'? - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...magazine-26581130

Cryptography war hackers NSA

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  • mackense on 01 Oct 14
     
    In the war over encryption between the NSA and privacy activists, at first it seemed as though the activists had won - but now it's not so clear.
  • Derek Bruff on 01 Oct 14
     
    This was shared with the group! Did you do anything different this time? Your comment appeared twice, but that's fine.
  • mackense on 02 Oct 14
     
    I didn't do anything different! It must have appeared twice because I posted it twice.
mackense

Business breaches, celeb photo hack raise online privacy concerns | The Buzz | www.acc... - 0 views

www.accessatlanta.com/...leb-photo-hack-raise-online-pr

hack online privacy

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  • mackense on 01 Oct 14
     
    The thing I found very interesting about this article is the discussion about ex-NBA owner Donald Sterling. Yes, his comments were horrifying, but he said things in the privacy of his home. I guess what I, and this article, are trying to say is that privacy is dead and all information is vulnerable.
mackense

The Mysterious Treasure of Thomas Beale - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...A83646156

Beale Cipher Singh Hoax

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  • mackense on 01 Oct 14
     
    I found this article and liked it because it gave me a lot of information about the Beale Cipher and treasure, even more information than Singh. I especially was interested in the reasons describing the possibility of it being real or a hoax.
Derek Bruff

A Double Agent App Targets Hong Kong's Protesters - The Daily Beast - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...ts-hong-kong-s-protesters.html

spyware protests fywscrypto HongKong doubleagent

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  • Derek Bruff on 02 Oct 14
     
    This reminds me just a bit of the Mary, Queen of Scots, story. Helpful messages that are actually covers for malicious intent.
junqing-shi

Big Brother Is Watching You Swipe: The NSA's Credit Card Data Grab - 2 views

business.time.com/...the-nsas-credit-card-data-grab

NSA security privacy InTheNews LittleBrother

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  • junqing-shi on 01 Oct 14
     
    The way NSA did to track individual's information in the credit cards.
Allison Molo

Shadow analysis could spot terrorists by their walk - tech - 04 September 2008 - New Sc... - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...-terrorists-by-their-walk.html

LittleBrother gait analysis

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  • Allison Molo on 01 Oct 14
     
    Just like in Little Brother! Schneiner responds to this article here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/gait_analysis_f.html
mariannas

Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ing-gains-in-surveillance.html

facial scanning little brother security surveillance privacy littlebrother

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  • mariannas on 01 Oct 14
     
    Facial scanning isn't quite to the point where it could be reliably implemented in a school, but it's not far off either.
aconn55

Heathrow to get new facial recognition scanners - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...y_to_be_introduced_at_heathrow

facial recognition airport security

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  • aconn55 on 01 Oct 14
     
    Heathrow is linking biometric information with boarding pass information to create a database.
jcs215

With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...r-in-schools-worries-rise.html

fywscrypto security

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  • jcs215 on 01 Oct 14
     
    At a New York state elementary school, teachers can use a behavior-monitoring app to compile information on which children have positive attitudes and which act out. In Georgia, some high school cafeterias are using a biometric identification system to let students pay for lunch by scanning the palms of their hands at the checkout line.
nate_clause

You Are Being Tracked: How License Plate Readers Are Being Used to Record Americans' Mo... - 0 views

www.aclu.org/alpr

license plate tracking surveillance LittleBrother

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  • nate_clause on 01 Oct 14
     
    There are already in place many automatic license plate readers on things such as road signs and bridges. This has purposes for helping track vehicles known to be owned by criminals, but simultaneously the tracking information is stored for millions of innocent people as well.
giordas

Ada Lovelace, the First Tech Visionary - The New Yorker - 1 views

www.newyorker.com/...elace-the-first-tech-visionary

ada lovelace Bernoulli numbers Analytical Engine computer programming

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  • lvanryzin on 24 Sep 14
     
    Here's just some more information about Ada Lovelace because she's pretty cool.
  • giordas on 24 Sep 14
     
    I thought this article was interesting because it mentioned Ada's childhood imagination and inventions. It's interesting to consider what she could've done if she had grown up in a different place or at a different time. Also, the article mentioned that there was a computer program named "Ada" after her and I thought it was pretty cool that she's beginning to be recognized more and more. (Sorry, I don't know why this comment wasn't here earlier. It's in my original Diigo bookmark.)
Riley Dankovich

Deleting Ada Lovelace from the history of computing | Ada Initiative - 2 views

adainitiative.org/...-from-the-history-of-computing

Lovelace programming Babbage

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  • Riley Dankovich on 21 Sep 14
     
    This resource is interesting in light of our discussing Babbage and Lovelace, as well as Ada Lovelace Day. This article is particularly interesting to me as it deals with women's contributions to significant advancements in history, many of which are often ignored or excused.
  • Derek Bruff on 24 Sep 14
     
    Riley, I mentioned in class that October 14th is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day for recognizing the contributions of women in science. Details: http://findingada.com/. I've wanted to organize an Ada Lovelace Day event here at Vanderbilt for a few years now, but never found the time. Let me know if you'd like to cook something up (an event? a blog series? a Wikipedia editing party?) for the 14th.
  • giordas on 24 Sep 14
     
    I found it really interesting that people took the fact that Lovelace made a few mistakes as an excuse to try to remove her contribution to computer programming. Male scientists and programmers also make mistakes, but we rarely see those used in an attempt to discredit them. Also, she literally designed a computer program before the computer even existed. I think we can excuse a few past mathematical errors.
mattgu123

Celebrating Ada Lovelace: the 'world's first programmer' - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...ada-lovelace-day.html

lovelace programming computers

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  • mattgu123 on 24 Sep 14
     
    Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of numbers important to the field of number theory, trigonometric expansions, and analysis. Ada Lovelace wrote a theoretical program to calculate these that would work on Charles Babbage's unfinished Analytical Engine. It's pretty interesting how Lovelace was a "leading figure" in the now massively male-dominated computer programming field, but didn't receive recognition for her work until fairly recently.
  • Derek Bruff on 24 Sep 14
     
    See also Riley's bookmark and my comments on it.
nate_clause

CrypTool-Online / Ciphers / Gronsfeld - 3 views

www.cryptool-online.org/index.php

vigenere cipher gronsfeld key

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  • nate_clause on 24 Sep 14
     
    This outlines the gronsfeld cipher, which is a modification of the vigenere cipher. I like and find this cipher interesting because of it using numbers instead of letters, and I like cryptography which uses numbers.
  • Derek Bruff on 24 Sep 14
     
    Interesting. Gronsfeld ciphers then form a subset of Vigenere ciphers. That is, there's a one-to-one correspondence between Gronsfeld ciphers and Vigenere ciphers where keywords are formed from the letters A through J.
whitnese

Cracking The Vigenere Cipher - 3 views

www.martani.net/...cracking-vigenere.html

fywscrypto encryption Vigenere computerprogamming

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  • whitnese on 24 Sep 14
     
    This post is about cracking the vigenere cipher. It also uses computer programming to solve it which I found interesting.
chrisr22

Charles Babbage's Failed Computer from 1837 Will Be Built - 2 views

gizmodo.com/...mputer-from-1837-will-be-built

Babbage computers Singh

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  • chrisr22 on 23 Sep 14
     
    Interesting article about Charles Baggage's computer designs finally being put to use! Found it interesting because we read about Charles Babbage and I was surprised to learn that the computer hadn't been built yet.
  • Derek Bruff on 24 Sep 14
     
    For the latest on Plan 28, the initiative to build Babbage's analytic engine, visit http://plan28.org/.
Allison Molo

Vigenere cipher encryption | Ciphers | Khan Academy - 0 views

www.khanacademy.org/...vigenere_cipher_encryption

Vigenere practice encryption

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  • Allison Molo on 24 Sep 14
     
    Good link from Khan Academy that has good practice questions/explanation of the Vigenere cipher.
hamzapatel123

Could There Have Been a Revision of Beale's Letters? - 1 views

www.bealetreasurestory.com/id14.html

beale cipher encryption treasure

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  • hamzapatel123 on 24 Sep 14
     
    I found this interesting because it mentions the fact that there may have been a revision to the Beale cipher before it was published.
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