LukaszOlejnik

LukaszOlejnik, 3 days ago to random

Good afternoon. I’ve got a PhD in Computer Science (privacy) and an LL.M. in IT Law, and I am a person with a disability (hearing). Let me just say that accessibility and privacy is a trade-off. You can’t have 100% of both. There, I said this. Want more?
Sure: if you think otherwise, chances are that you may be a specialist in accessibility OR privacy (but not both at the same time). Because in the real world it’s a trade-off. There, I said it.

LukaszOlejnik, 3 days ago to random

The joys of direct democracy! Today, June 9, 2024, a referendum is being held in 🇨🇭Switzerland🇨🇭 regarding the initiative "Pour la liberté et l’intégrité physique" (Stop mandatory vaccinations). This initiative demands that any state intervention in the physical and mental integrity of individuals requires their consent. This means that people who do not wish to be vaccinated cannot be forced to do so nor discriminated against for their choice.

LukaszOlejnik, 4 days ago to random

87-year-old writes to Financial Times. This is a real technological problem also for people with disabilities. Including me. Banking systems (and others) may make people's life miserable. And you know what? In case of an issue, I couldn't even make a phone call (when mandatory).

LukaszOlejnik, 4 days ago to random

Scenarios are useful ways of beginning to come to terms with an uncertain future. But to ascribe a probability to any particular scenario is misconceived. Scenario planning is a way of ordering thoughts about the future, not of predicting it.

LukaszOlejnik, 5 days ago to random

After criticism, Microsoft will give choice to users about enabling pervasive, always-on screenshot taking. There are also some more security and privacy changes. Feel free to remain cautious. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs/

LukaszOlejnik, 5 days ago to random

"Websites of three political parties in the Netherlands targeted with DDoS on Thursday as Dutch voters cast their ballots in the European elections". And "Pro-Russian hackers" take "responsibility". Sounds like this has NO IMPACT, so let's move on. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/06/pro-russia-group-claims-responsibility-for-cyber-attacks-on-first-day-of-eu-election

LukaszOlejnik, 6 days ago to random

Over 600,000 ActionTec routers of an ISP were rendered inoperable in october 2023 by a trojan due to a destructive firmware update. Required a replacement of 600,000 devices… The previous such event was the military cyberattack vs Ukraine/Viasat. https://blog.lumen.com/the-pumpkin-eclipse/

LukaszOlejnik, 6 days ago to random

Here’s me & @gynvael discussing the merits of Tru64, technical, legal, and policy aspects of shellcode execution, and implications for 2030-grade cyberoperations. Over cheesecake, tea, hot chocolate in Zurich’s Conditorei 1842. I was glad to write a dedication in his copy of Philosophy of Cybersecurity! Thanks for the chat!

LukaszOlejnik, 7 days ago to random

Advertised Microsoft Windows Recall feature that constantly makes screenshots of the screen. It's using OCR to recognise and transcribe text. It is always on and works by default. To disable it run this command in a terminal:
Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis -Name Value -Value 1
https://gist.github.com/dfeldman/5a5630d28b8336f403123c071cfdac9e

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LukaszOlejnik, 7 days ago to random

Cyberattack (ransomware) lead to major hospitals in London (and elsewhere) to cancel operations, blood tests, appointments. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/04/europe/cyberattack-london-hospitals-intl-latam/index.html

LukaszOlejnik, 7 days ago to random

The unsafe keyword enables developers to dereference a raw pointer, modify a mutable static variable, and, crucially, call unsafe functions. As of May 2024, there are about 145,000 crates; of which, approximately 127,000 contain significant code. Of those 127,000 crates, 24,362 make use of the unsafe keyword, which is 19.11% of all crates. And 34.35% make a direct function call into another crate that uses the unsafe keyword. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/unsafe-rust-in-the-wild-notes-on-the-current-state-of-unsafe-rust/?ref=news.risky.biz

LukaszOlejnik, 8 days ago to random

Don't use the term 'hybrid warfare'. It's supposed to mean "actions below the threshold of war". But then it would have to mean that "hybrid war is not war". You know, it would be a "war that is not war". And if it's not war, why calling it war? Silly. https://www.ft.com/content/bf128ebf-2e3f-40a3-b7ec-bcd1b477ab9a

LukaszOlejnik, 8 days ago to random

Oh wow, Google's privacy incidents database leaked. It's difficult to see how this could have been done but we at least have evidence of functioning privacy engineering and management program in at least one big company. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-leak-reveals-list-past-235415564.html

By the way, all EU data protection authorities have lists of data breaches that are being reported. That's lots of incidents. You're also nearly never hearing about this - and for good reasons. There's no point in disclosing them all.

LukaszOlejnik, 13 days ago to random

Nato states are able to provide less than 5 per cent of air defence capacities deemed necessary to protect its members in central and eastern Europe against a full-scale attack. Russia could have the capability to attack a Nato member state by the end of the decade. Somw rough computations attached. https://www.ft.com/content/5953405f-d91a-4598-8b6b-6345452ca328

LukaszOlejnik, 15 days ago to random

Israel allegedly conducted cyberespionage operations on International Criminal Court (ICC) for 9 years. Allegedly to intimidate the ICC and disrupt investigations into potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed

LukaszOlejnik, 15 days ago to random

Breakthrough judgment of European Court of Human Rights: states to provide judicial oversight & independent monitoring of surveillance. States must notify individuals subjected to surveillance. Evidence from illegal surveillance should not be used https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?library=ECHR&id=003-7957259-11092429&filename=Judgment%20Pietrzak%20and%20Bychawska-Siniarska%20and%20Others%20v.%20Poland%20-%20complaints%20about%20Polish%20legislation%20on%20secret%20surveillance.pdf

LukaszOlejnik, 16 days ago to random

My newsletter #TechLetters out (unsure when the next one would be released). Data protection of TLS Session Tickets. Cyberattacks vs water utilities. EU wants to solve disinformation. Celebrities continue getting AI transparency immediately. https://open.substack.com/pub/techletters/p/techletters-175-data-protection-of

LukaszOlejnik, 17 days ago to random

Chinese army field-testing an assault rifle walking robot, and a quadcopter. Used to clear the area. International Humanitarian Law will be increasingly challenged. Not tomorrow but today.

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LukaszOlejnik, 17 days ago to random

The AI Overview in the core, critical, Google search product underwent some form of risk assessment. So they knew about these issues, deciding to accept the risk. No sane person would jump off a bridge because a search engine advised it, right? As Google said, such quirky advice is given in a small number of cases. Perhaps those few individuals who might follow the strange advice (glue, bridge, rocks, etc.) were deemed an acceptable risk, a business decision that someone had to approve?

LukaszOlejnik, 18 days ago to random

Failed gurus claim that their prognostication was essentially correct although it might appear otherwise to us; or they tell us that the date at which their thesis will be confirmed has not yet arrived.

LukaszOlejnik, 20 days ago to random

Statement of 16 EU Member States about fighting disinformation and propaganda. „essential to strengthen ability to detect foreign information manipulation and interference to swiftly unveil them, to break their virality”. Defensive information activities to be extended to candidates. https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/statement-by-the-ministers-for-european-affairs-of-france-germany-poland-austria-bulgaria-croatia-czechia-denmark-greece-italy-latvia-luxembourg-portugal-romania-slovenia-spain2

LukaszOlejnik, 20 days ago to random

China urging the country's domestic car manufacturers (SAIC, BYD, Dongfeng, GAC, etc) to use 25% Chinese chips by 2025. They are building a local manufacturing industry. The key is to build local demand. Here's how it's done. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/China-asks-carmakers-to-use-up-to-25-local-chips-by-2025

LukaszOlejnik, 21 days ago to random

China releases an AI chatbot trained on the thoughts of President Xi Jinping, the political philosophy “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, as well as other official literature. Competition for OpenAI? https://www.ft.com/content/43378c6e-664b-4885-a255-31325d632ee9