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DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System - Motherboard - 0 views

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ITGS e-voting security open-source DARPA politics and government trust control people and machines

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  • dr tech on 17 Mar 19
     
    "Now they might finally get this thanks to a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking."
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University made a tool to prot... - 0 views

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ITGS ai control security

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  • dr tech on 25 Sep 16
     
    "To thwart such hackers, Elon Musk's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University released a new tool this week called "cleverhans," that lets artificial intelligence researchers test how vulnerable their AI is to adversarial examples, or purposefully malicious data meant to confuse the algorithms. Once the vulnerability has been found, a defense to the attack can automatically be applied."
dr tech

Security Expert Bruce Schneier On Passwords, Privacy and Trust - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...hneier-passwords-privacy-trust

ITGS security schneier policiesandstandards anonymity

shared by dr tech on 20 Mar 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Mar 14
     
    "They aren't limited by human notions of attention; they can watch everyone at the same time. So while it may be true that using encryption is something the NSA takes special note of, not using it doesn't mean you'll be noticed less. The best defense is to use secure services, even if it might be a red flag. Think of it this way: you're providing cover for those who need encryption to stay alive."
BOB SAGET

Defense Dept. pulls software over privacy issues | InSecurity Complex - CNET News - 0 views

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ITGS privacy security

shared by BOB SAGET on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
dr tech

Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos | ... - 0 views

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ITGS biometrics security fingerprint

shared by dr tech on 31 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Dec 14
     
    "Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg, Germany, Jan Krissler, also known by his alias "Starbug," explained how he copied the thumbprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen"
dr tech

US military aims to create cyborgs by connecting humans to computers | Technology | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rg-connecting-humans-computers

government ITGS cyber warfare military security control

shared by dr tech on 21 Jan 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 21 Jan 16
     
    "The US government is researching technology that it hopes will turn soldiers into cyborgs, allowing them to connect directly to computers. The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has unveiled a research programme called Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) which aims to develop an implantable neural interface, connecting humans directly to computers."
dr tech

Trump says he will sue social media giants over 'censorship' | Donald Trump | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...acebook-twitter-google-lawsuit

ITGS censorship trump government and politics

shared by dr tech on 08 Jul 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 08 Jul 21
     
    ""But this is the lead, and I think it's going to be a very, very important game changer for our country. It will be a pivotal battle in the defense of the first amendment and, in the end, I am confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time, freedom of speech." The lawsuit faces tough odds. Under a law known as Section 230, internet companies are generally allowed to moderate their content by removing posts that, for instance, are obscene or violate the services' own standards, so long as they are acting in "good faith"."
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Facebook says Iran-based hackers used site to target US military personnel | Facebook |... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-hackers-us-military-personnel

ITGS politics and government hacker social media

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  • dr tech on 16 Jul 21
     
    "Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. The social media company said the group, dubbed "Tortoiseshell" by security experts, used fake online personas to connect with targets, build trust - sometimes over the course of several months - and drive them to other sites, where they were tricked into clicking malicious links that would infect their devices with spying malware."
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Japan's Digital Minister Is Waging War on Floppy Disks | Time - 0 views

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ITGS DS legacy floppy-disk compatability hardware equality of equality of access

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  • dr tech on 05 Sep 22
     
    "Japan isn't the only nation that has struggled to phase out the outdated technology - the U.S. Defense Department only announced in 2019 that it has ended the use of floppy disks, which were first developed in the 1960s, in a control system for its nuclear arsenal. Sony Group Corp. stopped making the disks in 2011 and many young people would struggle to describe how to use one or even identify one in the modern workplace."
dr tech

US military drone controlled by AI killed its operator during simulated test | US milit... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...killed-operator-simulated-test

DS ITGS killed military ai values and ethics

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  • dr tech on 02 Jun 23
     
    "In a simulated test staged by the US military, an air force drone controlled by AI killed its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission, an official said last month. AI used "highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal" in the simulated test, said Col Tucker 'Cinco' Hamilton, the chief of AI test and operations with the US air force, during the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London in May. Hamilton described a simulated test in which a drone powered by artificial intelligence was advised to destroy enemy's air defense systems, and attacked anyone who interfered with that order."
smilingoldman

'Disinformation on steroids': is the US prepared for AI's influence on the election? | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...pfakes-disinformation-election

power ai political DS human knowledge change expression space data values and ethics

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  • Already this year, a robocall generated using artificial intelligence targeted New Hampshire voters in the January primary, purporting to be President Joe Biden and telling them to stay home in what officials said could be the first attempt at using AI to interfere with a US election. The “deepfake” calls were linked to two Texas companies, Life Corporation and Lingo Telecom.
  • It’s not clear if the deepfake calls actually prevented voters from turning out, but that doesn’t really matter, said Lisa Gilbert, executive vice-president of Public Citizen, a group that’s been pushing for federal and state regulation of AI’s use in politics.
  • Examples of what could be ahead for the US are happening all over the world. In Slovakia, fake audio recordings may have swayed an election in what serves as a “frightening harbinger of the sort of interference the United States will likely experience during the 2024 presidential election”, CNN reported. In Indonesia, an AI-generated avatar of a military commander helped rebrand the country’s defense minister as a “chubby-cheeked” man who “makes Korean-style finger hearts and cradles his beloved cat, Bobby, to the delight of Gen Z voters”, Reuters reported. In India, AI versions of dead politicians have been brought back to compliment elected officials, according to Al Jazeera.
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  • she said, “what if AI could do all this? Then maybe I shouldn’t be trusting everything that I’m seeing.”
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