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Interesting story about Uber drivers who have figured out how to game the company’s algorithms to cause surge pricing: According to the study. drivers manipulate Uber’s algorithm by logging out of the app at the same time, making it think that there is a shortage of cars. […] The study said drivers have been coordinating … Read More “Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing” »
Last August, an unknown group called the Shadow Brokers released a bunch of NSA tools to the public. The common guesses were that the tools were discovered on an external staging server, and that the hack and release was the work of the Russians (back then, that wasn’t controversial). This was me: Okay, so let’s … Read More “Shadow Brokers Releases the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools” »
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If you’ve read my book Liars and Outliers, you know I like the prisoner’s dilemma as a way to think about trust and security. There is an enormous amount of research — both theoretical and experimental — about the dilemma, which is why I found this new research so interesting. Here’s a decent summary: The … Read More “Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment Illustrates Four Basic Phenotypes” »
The NSA was badly hacked in 2013, and we’re just now learning about it. A group of hackers called “The Shadow Brokers” claim to have hacked the NSA, and are posting data to prove it. The data is source code from “The Equation Group,” which is a sophisticated piece of malware exposed last year and … Read More “Major NSA/Equation Group Leak” »
This is an interesting paper — the full version is behind a paywall — about how we as humans can motivate people to cooperate with future generations. Abstract: Overexploitation of renewable resources today has a high cost on the welfare of future generations. Unlike in other public goods games, however, future generations cannot reciprocate actions … Read More “"Cooperating with the Future"” »