Alice In Cryptoland
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| Alice In Cryptoland | |
| Number | 2890 |
| Broadcast Date | OCTOBER 28, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 44:31 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Darren Kitchen, Len Peralta |
Geohot cancels his self-driving car and Facebook is accused of enabling ad discrimination. Plus, Google Mind is teaching AI to roll its own encryption and teaching other Ai to try to break it. Darren Kitchen talks with Tom Merritt about how successful it is and Len Peralta illustrates.
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Top Stories
- George Hotz, aka geohot has canceled his autonomous car aftermarket add-on, the Comma One, after receiving a letter from the US National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration. The administration required answers to 15 questions on design, safety testing, and marketing. Hotz decided to cancel the project saying on Twitter that “dealing with regulators and lawyers… isn’t worth it.”
- ProPublica has published a report pointing out that Facebook's ad targeting can be used not only to target by ethnicity but therefore also exclude by ethnicity. That means the tool could be used to exclude home advertisements to be shown to users of certain races, an illegal practice.
- The European Union's Article 29 Working Party sent an email to Facebook Friday, expressing serious concerns about sharing WhatsApp data and telling Facebook it must stop sharing data while an investigation occurs. In August WhatsApp changed its terms of service to allow Facebook to match phone numbers with users of both services. The Article 29 Working Party is made up of the heads of privacy from the 28 EU member nations. It also warned Yahoo over the recently discovered 2014 data breach and the allegations that Yahoo scanned emails for US intelligence agencies. Separately Italy's antitrust agency announced a probe into WhatsApp's sharing of data with Facebook.
- Employment tribunal judges in the UK ruled two Uber drivers should be considered employees and guaranteed a living wage and other benefits. Uber plans to appeal the decision.
- Sony's PlayStation Vue TV service is now available for Android TV devices running Android OS 4.4 or later. Sony also promised access coming to PCs and Macs soon.
- Zcash is launching its cryptocurrency offering Friday. Investors seem to think Zcash's ZEC tokens could match Bitcoin in value by the end of the year because investors are so excited to buy ZEC. A bit of circular logic, we know. Zcash uses its own protocol called Zerocash which offers anonymous coins called zerocoins and non-anonymous coins called Basecoins. Zerocash uses a zero-knowledge proof called a zk-SNARK, which allows two parties to provide each other with verified information without revealing their identities in the process. This hides the sender, recipient and value from anyone not holding a view key. The intensive proofs requires for zero knowledge proofs may make it difficult to scale.
Discussion
- Google teaches “AIs” to invent their own crypto and avoid eavesdropping
- Google’s neural networks invent their own encryption
Messages
- Hey Tom,
Here's a breaking news story coming out of my neck of the woods, the Australian Red Cross is distributing this email to everyone that has donated to them over the last 6 or so years (550'000+ Aussie's), you can read the details below and at http://info.donateblood.com.au
In addition to this Troy Hunt the security researcher has hist story up about how the breach happened:
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-red-cross-blood-service-australias-largest-ever-leak-of-personal-data/
Everyone involved seems to be practicing responsible disclosure which I am quite impressed by to be honest and the Red Crosses version seems to downplay Troy's version of events but i'll let you read and decide for yourself you usually have a great balances outlook on this sort of thing which is why I listen :)
If you do run with it feel free to post the general stuff in the email just not my personal details if you don't mind (just including it so you have a raw copy I trust you to redact it where its needed if you want to use it). - Sent by Murray, the past (and future hackers be damned) blood donor in Coffs Harbour Australia
- Hey Tom,
- Marlon from Trinidad posted on our blog about Lenovo's capacitive touch-sensitive "Adaptive Function Row" that was included on the X1 Carbon in 2014. It had four sets of keys it could cycle through and Lenovo took some heat for removing PRTSCrn and Insert and moving other keys around.
That reminds us that some Razer machines also had full color Switchblade keys on its game laptops and those were fully customizable. - Sent by Marlon from Trinidad
- Marlon from Trinidad posted on our blog about Lenovo's capacitive touch-sensitive "Adaptive Function Row" that was included on the X1 Carbon in 2014. It had four sets of keys it could cycle through and Lenovo took some heat for removing PRTSCrn and Insert and moving other keys around.
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