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The dangers of free cloud-based storage
A few days ago, Google Docs locked out many users from their documents, claiming they violated their Terms of Service, despite being innocuous. Here is why this will continue to happen what you can do to not run into this problem yourself.
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Reproducible AI Image Generation: Experiment Follow-Up
Inspired by an NZZ Folio article on AI text and image generation using DALLβ’EΒ 2, I tried to reproduce the (German) prompts. Someone suggested that English prompts would work better. Here is the comparison.
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DEFCON Voting Village 23 Panel
There was a DEFCON Voting Village panel Β«If I can shop online, why can’t I vote online?Β» which I found extremely important to read or listen to. Not just for me, in fact, for anyone talking about electronic voting. Here is a transcript for those who prefer reading (or searching for keywords).
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DNSSEC: Beware during algorithm transitions
DNSSEC is cool. It easily adds security to probably the most important enabling protocol in today’s Internet: No web pages could be found, email delivered, or instant message received, without the Domain Name System (DNS). DNSSEC also enables DANE, a step forward for certificates for most applications. Sometimes you want to change a few settings.…
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Counting like a computer
Computers are very good at counting. But usually only within narrow limits. Here is an insight into where these limits come from and what goes wrong when they are exceeded.
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DANE: The CA game changer
Securing the Internet is important. However, many design decisions are broken: For example, encrypted web pages are considered less secure than unencrypted pages, even outright dangerous, unless you regularly pay a lot of money to certificate authorities, which have shown to make the Internet less secure. The new kid on the block, DANE (DNS-based Authentication…