Privacy
- www.cbsnews.com As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts
The first-in-the-nation law in Colorado includes biological or brain data in the State Privacy Act, similar to fingerprints if the data is being used to identify people.
- www.theregister.com Police allege ‘evil twin’ in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal info
Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords
- Privacy@lemmy.world: An open source two factor auth app that syncs keys between devices?
Isn't the value of two factor auth that it requires a physical device (your phone or computer) with the auth key to authenticate you? Then why don't many two factor auth apps seem to support syncing? If it's fine to do so, are there any open source cross platform apps that sync keys?
- Given a perfect weapon, can you commit a perfect crime?gwern.net <em>Death Note</em>: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in <em>Death Note</em> and considering fixes
Death Note Anonymity analysis by Gwern.
I think it would be valuable to read for people here, especially newbies and "privacy bros" to understand how
privacy(anonymity) actually works.> Given a perfect weapon, can you commit a perfect crime?
The answer is surprisingly close to no.
> Everything you do bleeds information.
A perfect crime is one that wasn't even noticed. If a perfect crime gets noticed it immediately reveals the following: you are smart and you have the knowledge and weapons to commit a perfect crime, and in a murder you must have had a motive, instantly ruling out 99% of the human population.
On the web you can be tracked using almost anything: browser window size, word choice, times you are online, internet connection delay, negative qualities like not giving your language will exclude the majority of people who do.
In fact, just this post alone is sufficient to narrow me down to less than a million (maybe even a few thousand) people.
Edit: This is actually about anonymity, privacy is slightly different, but I think this is still relevant to privacy.