What is Differential Privacy? – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/06/15/what-is-differential-privacy/Yesterday at the WWDC keynote, Apple announced a series of new security and privacy features, including one feature that's drawn a bit of attention -- and confusion. Specifically, Apple announced that they will be using a technique called "Differential Privacy" (henceforth: DP) to improve the privacy of their data collection practices. The reaction to this…
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Comment l’obsession sécuritaire fait muter la démocratie, par Giorgio Agamben (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2014)
monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/01/AGAMBEN/49997
La formule « pour raisons de sécurité » (« for security reasons », « per ragioni di sicurezza ») fonctionne comme un argument d’autorité qui, coupant court à toute discussion, permet d’imposer des perspectives et des mesures que l’on n’accepterait pas sans cela. Il faut lui opposer l’analyse d’un concept d’apparence anodine, mais qui semble avoir supplanté toute autre notion politique : la sécurité.
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juuso/BozoCrack
github.com/juuso/BozoCrackBozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load. Instead of rainbow tables, dictionaries, or brute force, BozoCrack simply finds the plaintext password. Specifically, it googles the MD5 hash and hopes the plaintext appears somewhere on the first page of results. It works way better than it ever should.