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alanw writes:
Daniel J. Bernstein" has made a couple of blog posts about the NSA's attempts to influence NIST post-quantum cryptography standards, by removing the "belt and braces" current algorithms and silencing dissent.
NSA and IETF: Can an attacker simply purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
MODPOD: The collapse of IETF's protections for dissent.
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alanw writes:
The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that allows a malicious KVM guest to leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a userspace hypervisor such as QEMU
https://lwn.net/Articles/10377...
https://www.theregister.com/20...
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alanw writes:
Home Bargains introduces facial recognition camers, woman pays for toilet rolls, Home Bargains mistakenly submits an allegation that she shoplifted them to Facewatch, next time she tries to enter an HB store she is escorted out with no reason given.
"As soon as I stepped my foot over the threshold of the door, they were radioing each other and they all surrounded me and were like 'you need to leave the store'," she said.
Madeleine Stone, senior advocacy officer at the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said they had been contacted by more than 35 people who have complained of being wrongly placed on facial recognition watchlists.
"They're being wrongly flagged as criminals," Ms Stone said.
"They've given no due process, kicked out of stores. This is having a really serious impact."
"Historically in Britain, we have a history that you are innocent until proven guilty but when an algorithm, a camera and a facial recognition system gets involved, you are guilty."
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alanw writes:
ZDNet has an article on what the huge numbers of Linux CVEs published each week mean to the different users of Linux.
Previous Slashdot story
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alanw writes:
Following up from today's story about the death of Mike Lynch, his co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain was killed in a car accident on Saturday
The co-defendant of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch — who is currently missing in Italy — has died after being hit by a car.
Stephen Chamberlain, 52, was Mr Lynch's co-defendant in his US fraud trial in which both men were acquitted following the $11bn (£8.64bn) sale of the software giant Autonomy.
Mr Chamberlain died after being fatally struck by the vehicle while out running in Cambridgeshire on Saturday and his family has now paid tribute to him.
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alanw writes:
Hans Reiser (imprisoned for the murder of his wife) has written a letter, asking it to be published to Slashdot.
