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by randomwalker 7y ago
Coauthor here. As it turns out, this is one of three papers released near-simultaneously that uncover the extent of tracking on TVs or IoT devices more generally. I've written up a survey of the three papers and what I thought were esp
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Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs(twitter.com)
411 points by randomwalker 7y ago|155 comments
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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection(freedom-to-tinker.com)
918 points by randomwalker 7y ago|256 comments
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by randomwalker 7y ago
This is blogspam. The original article is here: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...
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What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?(slate.com)
155 points by randomwalker 7y ago|193 comments
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What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?(slate.com)
2 points by randomwalker 7y ago|0 comments
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by randomwalker 8y ago
OP here. A small clarification: there are some legitimate criticisms of the Register piece that I cited in the first tweet, but I merely cited it as an example of why I think the hype is calming down. The arguments I make are independent of
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“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”(twitter.com)
307 points by randomwalker 8y ago|197 comments
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The House That Came in the Mail(99percentinvisible.org)
2 points by randomwalker 8y ago|0 comments
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by randomwalker 8y ago
Thanks! The main reason I'm using Twitter for this is that it's a bit too preliminary for a blog post. I don't yet have as good an understanding of the history as I would like. This way, when I discover new stuff, I can simpl
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by randomwalker 8y ago
That's possible, but an alternative explanation for the cost overruns that I've read is that Babbage had terrible project management skills. Wikipedia has this to say: In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and worki
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by randomwalker 8y ago
OP here. The number and variety of special-purpose computing devices that existed before general purpose computers is astounding. The surprising (to me) conclusion is that the main impediment to the development of computers wasn't tech
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Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing?(twitter.com)
239 points by randomwalker 8y ago|147 comments
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If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?(hbr.org)
131 points by randomwalker 8y ago|112 comments
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Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting(freedom-to-tinker.com)
299 points by randomwalker 8y ago|103 comments
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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login(freedom-to-tinker.com)
601 points by randomwalker 8y ago|117 comments
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When the business model is the privacy violation(freedom-to-tinker.com)
199 points by randomwalker 8y ago|92 comments
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Cryptovirology: The Birth, Neglect, and Explosion of Ransomware(cacm.acm.org)
41 points by randomwalker 9y ago|5 comments
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No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers(freedom-to-tinker.com)
265 points by randomwalker 9y ago|62 comments
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by randomwalker 9y ago
BlockSci is an academic research project at Princeton, but we're committed to maintaining it as open-source software, and we hope it's more broadly useful. If you're interested in using it or contributing to it, here's a
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BlockSci: A high-performance tool for blockchain science and exploration(github.com)
94 points by randomwalker 9y ago|9 comments
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by randomwalker 9y ago
I'm the lead author of this textbook/lecture series. It's been a couple of years, and we've been thinking about an update. Let me know what topics you'd most like to see. Note that our goal is not to much to teach t
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by randomwalker 9y ago
I've been asked this a lot, especially since I also research and teach cryptocurrency technology [1]. I haven't personally tried to do that. Satoshi clearly wished to maintain their pseudonymity, and I'd rather respect that.
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by randomwalker 9y ago
I'm a coauthor of this paper. It was published a couple of years ago; pleasantly surprised to see it here. The paper shows that programmers have distinctive styles in their source code that can be extracted to create a fingerprint of c
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by randomwalker 9y ago
Coauthor here. Here's some context for how this essay came about. When we released a draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook [1], one piece of feedback was that we focused on cryptocurrency technology as it is today, and ignored the ju
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by randomwalker 9y ago
I'm a co-author of this paper. It's available here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.04748.pdf The surprise here isn't that Bitcoin isn't perfectly anonymous. There are two new findings. The first is the
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When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of cryptocurrency payments(arxiv.org)
1 points by randomwalker 9y ago|0 comments
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Cryptovirology: The Birth, Neglect, and Explosion of Ransomware(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by randomwalker 9y ago|0 comments
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by randomwalker 9y ago
Oops! Thanks, fixed.
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by randomwalker 9y ago
Coauthor of the paper here. No --- this is not one of the three techniques that we implemented. It was a hypothetical suggestion for future work. Unfortunate that the article didn't make that clear. Here is the paper http://

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