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Two postdoc positions in Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks at University of Edinburgh
by grarpamp 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

While at your new $job, fix the TA problem of ACN's... because some whitepapers, analysts, researchers, and NSA are saying all current ones stink like tor. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ELAHI Tariq <t.elahi(a)ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 Subject: Two postdoc positions in Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks at University of Edinburgh Hello all, I am looking for two post-docs to join two projects in the theme of Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks. The post-docs are homed in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh where, under my supervision, we will investigate meta-data and data privacy techniques as building blocks/primitives to realize an “engineered privacy layer” that can be embedded into the Internet and communications networks in general. The post-docs will be a part of---and have the opportunity to interact and potentially collaborate with---the Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust group with over 15 core faculty members and 40+ Post-docs, PhD students, and affiliated faculty spanning a broad range of theoretical and applied topics in security, privacy, and trust. For more about the group please see: edin.ac/3mIDdqN. If you would like to have a casual chat to find out more before applying or have any questions please get in touch with me (t.elahi(a)ed.ac.uk) To learn more about my research interests please see: edin.ac/2KUmT93. Early applications will be considered as they arrive. The deadline for both positions is 15/1/2021 17:00 GMT. Some brief information about the two projects with links to further details follow: 1) "Integrating Meta-data Privacy into Networked Applications through ‘Add-On’ Anonymous Communication Networks" The aim of this project is to investigate how effectively and efficiently anonymous communication networks (ACN) primitives (at the network and applications layers) can act as “add-ons” between applications that do not have privacy built-in by design (non-PbD apps) and the Internet at large. This project will rigorously develop and extend on the current folk wisdom that to add anonymity or privacy properties to a non-PbD system, the addition of sending all traffic through an ACN is sufficient. It will provide a nuanced and technical approach to integrating anonymous networks, and the primitives they are built on, to systems that are not originally privacy-aware. The approach will be to investigate and extend privacy primitives that enable routing, path selection, and traffic shaping and compose the result into an “engineered privacy-layer”. Duration: 18 Months Start: March 1st, 2021 (flexible) More Information: edin.ac/3rnDdAb (apply by 15/1/2021) 2) "Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks" Mass surveillance of email and web browsing traffic is a critical and growing threat to individual and at-risk groups' online security and privacy. In response, Anonymous Communication Networks (ACNs) like Tor and Mix networks secure communications on the Internet against even the most sophisticated and powerful adversaries. However, it is a challenge to optimally tune ACNs by the security non-expert system administrator in real world settings. Misconfiguration may lead to catastrophic failures of privacy and performance degradation that will erode trust in ACNs and hamper their adoption. This project will investigate novel approaches combining engineering principles and PETS techniques to designing, tuning, and operating ACNs at scale. The resulting systems and techniques will contribute towards our “engineered privacy-layer” vision. Duration 24 Months Start: March 1st (flexible) More Information: edin.ac/34AKDpZ (apply by 15/1/2021) Stay safe and be healthy, Tariq Elahi Assistant Professor School of Informatics University of Edinburgh UK The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Encryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California - Atlas Obscura
by jim bell 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps Sounds like a PR stunt. Very slow data rate. Mix this with output from a modern chip-based RNG, and you won't be doing any harm. Just an example:https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/products/quant…

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Chaos Monkeys book on SV
by professor rat 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Chaos Monkeys lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world. The question is, how will we survive? https://www.amazon.com.au/Chaos-Monkeys-Antonio-Garcia-Martinez/dp/00624581…

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Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias in Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples
by grarpamp 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics & Elections - Allum Bokhari #Deleted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJfGphZBmQ #Deleted: Big Tech's battle to erase the trump movement and steal the election https://deletedbook.com/

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Cryptocurrency: The Long Term [re: Stir Fried Drones]
by grarpamp 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

>> <Make cool toys> > WE NEED OPEN SOURCE PLANS TO DO THAT. Even the smallest of crypto hodlers and traders will over time see their value increase to where they will have more free time to spend on making such plans. Even the author of old anarchist cookbook needed free time from work to write the book, now we have many Anarchapulco's spreading. Now we have millions small crypto people slowly generating and approaching more free time. Some who will honor and always work to bring crypto voluntary ways... And to publish plans for toys.

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Cryptocurrency: DEX and for Privacy [was: Dead Mans Hand again]
by grarpamp 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

On 12/22/20, professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > We've compiled a short and sweet list of the top poker sites accepting > bitcoin that serve U.S. players and other offshore customers: > Ignition Poker. > BetOnline / SB Poker. > Bovada. > Bodog.eu. > Intertops. > Americas Cardroom / BlackChip / True Poker. > Grand Poker. > SwCPoker. Bodog is Calvin Ayre aka: BSV Craig "not Satoshi" Wright's papi. An which of them operate onions, not that it matters. That's an old news. Now for the real gambling... Where are all the cryptocurrency exchanges operating "offshore" on the Secret Islands of anonymous encrypted distributed uncensorable overlay networks represented in legacy first gen implementation form by .onion, or even the less used .i2p? Onionland... Many tens of drug, physible, and digible marts, all manner of crypto nodes, and censored talk, but hardly ever a real matching engine crypto exchange. Nor any competitors to, or users on, distributed cross-coin DEX such as BlockDX and the like (just a bunch of clearnet centralized ERC-20 only fake DEX sucking up all the air in the fake coin news). Just like the lack of needed privacy and chainless coins, this imbalance of available exchange and DEX services in the universe needs rectified ASAP.

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Same old dopey Joe
by professor rat 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

ericgeller - 5h Biden is answering press questions now and just talked SolarWinds. "The Defense Department won't even brief us on many things. ... I know of nothing that suggests it's under control." "We need international rules of the road on cybersecurity." " National borders are not even road humps on the information superhighway " Old cryptoanarchist proverb

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Dead Mans Hand again
by professor rat 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

We've compiled a short and sweet list of the top poker sites accepting bitcoin that serve U.S. players and other offshore customers: Ignition Poker. BetOnline / SB Poker. Bovada. Bodog.eu. Intertops. Americas Cardroom / BlackChip / True Poker. Grand Poker. SwCPoker.

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Driving on deep into Porn Valley
by professor rat 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

https://www.coindesk.com/cryptocurrency-pornhub-verge-mobile-charging What took them so long? The USA is cactus.

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SlashGear: Old Android phones no longer affected by Let’s Encrypt’s big change next year
by jim bell 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

SlashGear: Old Android phones no longer affected by Let’s Encrypt’s big change next year. https://www.slashgear.com/old-android-phones-no-longer-affected-by-lets-enc…

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