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In response to last month’s intrusion, we’ve put numerous additional security measures in place in an effort to mitigate and prevent future intrusions.
We’re also pleased to announce the creation of 4chan's Vulnerability Disclosure Program—commonly known as a “bug bounty.”
We hope that by providing an officially sanctioned way for security researchers to submit security-related bugs, we’ll be in a better position to detect and respond to vulnerabilities that may impact the site and its users.
Security remains an ongoing priority and commitment of ours. Thanks again for bearing with us, and sorry to anyone we’ve let down.
—moot
IBM 5 in 5: Lattice Cryptography will outwit hackers
The scale and sophistication of cyber-attacks escalates every year. But within the next five years, a new security method called lattice cryptography will help create an intractable barrier for black hats. The key is hiding data inside complex math problems called lattices, designed to protect data from the threat of crypto-breaking quantum computers. Current encryption protocols are being outpaced by advances in computing technology, but with lattice cryptography, we’re working to get ahead of the problem. Hackers gonna hack—but we’re coming prepared.
See how lattice cryptography will future-proof data encryption within five years ->
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Writers of the past warned us about letting Big Brother and alike in our lives, either with or without consent for a generous and obvious amount of reasons. Today we have compromised quite a bit with the triangulation of privacy between us, government, corporations, and where the value should be placed at; however, there’s also a great deal in politics that comes with it.
This week Amazon publicly bloomed another interesting idea in terms of delivery and privacy polarization which involved the users receiving his/her goods, with theAmazon Keyservice where the delivery person has access to your home via a kit costing $249.99. This service requires Amazon Prime and the bundle includes a smart lock and a cloud cam to monitor the delivery personnel to your home, which basically translates into Amazondropping your package entering your doors.
Paying to have strangers in your home?
I’ve heard different complains up until now about couriers dropping packages to the front door and eventually getting stolen by someone else. We are talking about packages which cannot fit in the common mail box and are delivered the homeowner aren’t in. Here we have a common problem where there’s data missing in the form of service between the user and the business. But delivering a package without anyone stealing it is more an issue of drop-off timing and setups.
Ever since the internet became widely and commercially available we stepped backwards in terms of privacy rights and user rights. There’s an ongoing battle to protect not only the neutrality of the internet but also the privacy of the user. This is not a confrontation to safeguard what we go online for, it’s a struggle to keep sensible data away from those who might use it against us. Social Security numbers, credit cards information, shopping habits, health status, and so on; the struggle gets more and more intense every time
The extension of 3rd party body into our privacy is now a reality…
In terms of privacy users aren’t helping the cause as they are voluntarily giving up personal information at no cost to online social platforms. Facebook knows a great deal of every user and it crosses such data with other apps like Instagram to provide exact persona and behavior; great amount of data sold to corporations for business purposes comes from platforms like Twitter, Tinder, Snapchat, Youtube .
By using Amazon Key we remove the last boundary of security we hold by letting strangers in our homes despite being monitored; however, how secure will these locks be? If modern cars can get hacked, how long do you think it’ll take to remotely open a door? But ultimately, how much are you willing to give just to have your package inside your door. Is this all worth it?
So sometime last year, I bought this interface because, hey, it’s relatively cheap right? And who cares that it comes without a case?
Well. I kinda did after getting it. Inserting it into a cartridge slot with a lid is incredibly annoying, because it’s difficult to align it to the actual cartridge port.
However, a little while ago, a friend gave me some hardware, and among it was a Philips NMS 1250 modem. Not very useful in these modern times, so it sat on the shelf for a while, and although I did try to convert it to an RS-232 interface at one point, the project wasn’t a very successful (or useful in my case).
I had considered putting the Maxiol into this case before, but never really fully attempted it because of how it would fit; I’d have to dremel out the screwholes and everything… but today, I just thought “screw it”, and went ahead.
Some rough measuring did make me find out I had to cut a slight hole for the PATA connector (which I’m not using, so I didn’t cut it out in full… yet), and a hole for the socketed chips (which are a bit too tall to fit otherwise).
A little while of dremeling later, and this is the result.
It’s not pretty, but it does work, and it’s a bit more protected. I might end up trying to make it look a bit tidier later on as well, but functionality was a bit more important at first ^^
Still to do: drilling 3 small holes to make the LED’s visible. Maybe even putting LEDs in the case itself so they’re properly visible, but I’m not too sure yet if I want to attempt soldering directly on the cart… I’d hate to break my only mass-storage device for MSX ^^
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The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
“Experimenting”. Wake up. It’s time.
So Elliot returns to fsociety’s arcade HQ and meets the other hackers, Darlene, Mobley, Romero, and Trenton.
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What if a technique was available that enabled one to insert a set of images/clips/visual cues into a machine - it processes the moods and colors and themes - ultimately dispensing a small, clear pill you would take before going to sleep, which releases a nanobot payload that quickly navigates your bloodstream and floods your brain with a perfectly fine-tuned (yet original) dream concept that would contain an intuitive and “understanding” blend of the data you fed the machine. Dream duration (5 min to 7½ hours) and personal data (preferences, experience, toggle sleep apnea alarm) is set either via the external holographic keypad, or the startup terminal.
Realizing the idea would only take getting a bio-engineer, a physics professor, a basement chemist w/o morals, a neurosurgeon w/o medical ethics, a genious programmer, couple of Intel people and the 2 Davids (Cronenberg and Lynch) together on this.
I’m thinking it shouldn’t take more than 2-3 weeks, tops. The Kickstarter will be up and collecting soon - every backer will get a commemorative pill from the first safe batch, pledges over 1000 bucks will also get one with original content from the Davids + firmware upgrades to enable upcoming features such as “Nightmare OptOut” and “Lucid Dream modular support” (both will require DirectX 70)
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Running Dingux on the ingenious Dingoo a320 - Beautifully understated piece of machinery #hacked
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People don’t often look back on the early 1900’s for advice, but what if we could actually learn something from the Lost Generation? The New York Public Library has digitized 100 “how to do it” cards found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes.
Back in the day, cigarette cards were popular collectibles included in every pack, and displayed photos of celebrities, advertisements, and more. Gallaher cigarettes, a UK-founded tobacco company that was once the largest in the world, decided to print a series of helpful how-to’s on their cards, which ranged from mundane tasks (boiling potatoes) to unlikely scenarios (stopping a runaway horse). Most of them are insanely clever, though, like how to make a fire extinguisher at home. Who even knew you could do that?
The entire set of life hacks is now part of the NYPL’s George Arents Collection. Check out some of the cleverest ones we could find below. You never know when you’ll have to clean real lace!
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