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Problems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal

Posted on By infossl
fraud, Georgia, identification, national security policy, Security technology, Uncategorized, voting

It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registration: On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts… …the portal suffered at least two security glitches that … Read More “Problems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal” »

Surveillance through Push Notifications

Posted on By infossl
fbi, identification, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant. The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Apple and Google demanded that the companies hand over … Read More “Surveillance through Push Notifications” »

Facial Recognition Systems in the US

Posted on By infossl
face recognition, identification, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. (This, of course, can all change without notice.) Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow. The problem here is identification, correlation, and then discrimination. There’s … Read More “Facial Recognition Systems in the US” »

Breaking Laptop Fingerprint Sensors

Posted on By infossl
authentication, biometrics, fingerprints, identification, reports, Security technology, sensors, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

They’re not that good: Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware, they were able to fool the Goodix fingerprint sensor in a Dell Inspiron 15, the Synaptic sensor in a Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and the ELAN sensor in one of Microsoft’s own Surface … Read More “Breaking Laptop Fingerprint Sensors” »

On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition

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biometrics, face recognition, identification, Security technology, Uncategorized

Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague’s name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at a crowded conference. However, six years later, the … Read More “On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition” »

The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity

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academic papers, identification, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

Really interesting “systematization of knowledge” paper: “SoK: The Ghost Trilemma” Abstract: Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the security of networked platforms. User identity is central to the vectors of attack and manipulation employed in these contexts. However it has long seemed that, try as it might, the security community has been … Read More “The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity” »

Experian Privacy Vulnerability

Posted on By infossl
identification, identity theft, impersonation, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experian’s website: Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. … Read More “Experian Privacy Vulnerability” »