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sabato 20 febbraio 2016

# e-sec: when something smells funny ...

<< why do the best hackers on the planet not work for the (..)? Because the (..) will not hire anyone with a 24-inch purple mohawk, 10gauge ear piercings, and a tattooed face who demands to ... >>

<< Cyberscience is not just something you can learn. It is an innate talent. The Juilliard school of music cannot create a Mozart. A Mozart or a Bach, much like our modern hacking community, is genetically created. A room full of Stanford computer science graduates cannot compete with a true hacker without even a high-school education. >>

John McAfee. I'll decrypt the San Bernardino iPhone. Feb. 18, 2016.

http://www.techinsider.io /john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-the-san-bernardino-iphone-for-free-so-apple-doesnt-need-to-place-a-back-door-on-its-product-2016-2

<< (..) But I’m smart enough to know when something smells funny >> John McAfee. Ars Technica. Feb.19, 2016

https ://mobile.twitter.com /arstechnica /status/700707638795968512

# s-gst: like a rolling stone

<< Here we report the discovery that even the simplest, oldest and most prevalent forms of evolutionary movement—rolling bodies and whirls of turbulence—exhibit the same body-size effect on life time and life travel as the evolutionary movement united by the body-size effect so far: animals, rivers, vehicles, jets and plumes. >>

Adrian Bejan. Rolling stones and turbulent eddies: why the bigger live longer and travel farther. Nature. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 21445 (2016). doi:10.1038/srep21445. Published online: 17 Feb 2016.

http://www.nature.com /articles /srep21445

http://pratt.duke.edu /news/rolling-stones-turbulence-connect-evolution -physics

Muddy Waters. Rollin' Stone

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmEMv8rcCA

Bob Dylan. Like a Rolling Stone (Original)

https ://m.youtube.com /watch ?v=H3Kt2v-PN9A

giovedì 18 febbraio 2016

# e-law: Mozilla about privacy

::: video link

https ://advocacy.mozilla.org /encrypt /2/

::: e-mail

from: Mozilla@e.mozilla.org

date: 17:37 17/02/2016

Hello,

We can move more people from simply consuming the Web to becoming its active citizens, but we need your help.

People like you and I know how fundamental privacy is to the open Web. There are many more who share our values and would join this movement. That’s why we made something to spotlight the importance of online privacy. We’re creating videos for you to watch and then share with friends, family, and colleagues. The videos are designed to be an introduction to the issues we care about — a way for each of us to start important conversations.

This is where you come in: will you watch this first video and then share it? It’s a great tool to start a conversation about privacy with people you know.

This new video series starts simple: it explores why privacy is so important in our everyday lives. In follow up videos we’ll send over the next few weeks, we’ll talk about encryption, and tell the story of how encryption can help enable and protect privacy.

Why do this now? We expect there are a number of significant political battles on surveillance and encryption coming down the pipe. We’re going to need to ask people like you and your friends to take a stand. Before we do this, we want to provide a solid grounding on why encryption matters.

Will you watch the video now and help spread the word?

I look forward to this and many future conversations,

Mark Surman
Executive Director

P.S. This is a new campaign strategy for us and we will learn a lot as the weeks go on. We’d love to hear your feedback — after watching the video, you can reply to this email and let us know what you think. Or send an email to askjoin@mozilla.org.

Mozilla. 331 E. Evelyn Ave. Mountain View, CA 94041. United States

mercoledì 17 febbraio 2016

# s-game: a "Colonel Blotto" approach inside a POTUS election: however, the behavior of individuals is not yet well understood ...

<< A team of computer scientists (..) is the first to solve a game theory scenario that has vexed researchers for nearly a century. The game, known as "Colonel Blotto," has been used to analyze the potential outcomes of elections and other similar two-party conflicts since its invention in 1921.>>

<< This solution enabled the team to develop a generalized algorithm, which can now be applied to specific scenarios, such as the 2016 presidential election. >>

<< From presidential elections to marketing decisions, competition for attention and loyalty is a part of daily life. However, the behavior of individuals in response to such competitions is not yet well understood >>

http://phys.org /news/2016-02-team-well-known-game-theory-scenario.html

AmirMahdi Ahmadinejad, Sina Dehghani, et al. From Duels to Battlefields: Computing Equilibria of Blotto and Other Game. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, February 15, 2016.

http://www.aaai.org /Conferences /conferences.php

https ://en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blotto _games

lunedì 15 febbraio 2016

# p-eu-bank: bail-in inverso: la risposta

<< L’Euribor (Euro Inter Bank Offered Rate) misura gli interessi che le banche si pagano per i prestiti tra loro. Viene rilevato quotidianamente con un sondaggio telefonico tra alcune decine di banche di un panel. Le possibilità di manipolazione del risultato sono intuitivamente ampie. >>

<< per almeno tre anni, dal 2005 al 2008, l’Euribor è stato truccato. Chiunque avesse debiti a tasso variabile o derivati legati all’andamento dei tassi ha pagato alle banche (a tutte le banche, non solo alle quattro colpevoli) più del dovuto. >>

<< Nel dicembre 2013 l’Antitrust europea, guidata dal vicepresidente della Commissione Joaquìn Almunia, ha multato per 1,7 miliardi di euro quattro grandi banche, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland e Société Générale, per un accordo di cartello finalizzato a manipolare l’Euribor. Da allora quella sentenza è segretata. La sua pubblicazione aprirebbe le cataratte dei risarcimenti. >>

<< Senza il documento, i ricorsi sono bloccati: solo ai clienti italiani sarebbero stati scippati 16 miliardi di euro >>.

ilfattoquotidiano.it, 14 Febbraio 2016

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it /2016/02/14/tassi-sui-mutui-truccati-leuropa-non-pubblica-provvedimento-contro-le-banche-istituti-in-pericolo /2464570/

https ://en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libor_scandal

sabato 13 febbraio 2016

# e-softw: Linux Foundation: A $5 Billion Value

<< The rise of open source projects and foundations has been much discussed, but the code investment underpinning them has not been analyzed in much detail. Many of the Linux Foundation’s collaborative projects started with significant code donations from companies or existing projects. Once they became a fully open and collaborative project with neutral governance, many companies and individuals engage in development. Because of that, there is no single source for cost estimates of how much it would take to develop the technology or an understanding of how much value these projects actually deliver to the industry. >>

<< As of last month [August 2015], 115,013,302 total lines of source code were present in The Linux Foundation’s collaborative projects. Using the COCOMO model, we estimated the total amount of effort required to retrace the steps of collaborative development to be 41,192.25 person-years. In other words, it would take a team of 1,356 developers 30 years to recreate the code base present in The Linux Foundation’s current collaborative projects listed above. We estimate the total economic value of this work to be over $5 billion. >>

Jeff Licquia, Amanda McPherson. A $5 Billion Value: Estimating the Total Development Cost of Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects. A Linux Foundation publication