Author: mfeilner

5G: Zu viel Sicherheit würde uns nur verunsichern

Wer bitte wählt solche Verfassungsfeinde?

5G: Justizminister wollen zu viel Sicherheit verhindern – SPIEGEL ONLINE … : 

“Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung als Risikofaktor”

“die Tatsache, dass Endgeräte in 5G zum Teil direkt miteinander kommunizieren können, ohne Umweg über zentrale Server eines Providers – wo allerdings auch die Abhörschnittstellen der Polizei sitzen.”

“Auch die Innenminister wollen eine ‘Mitwirkungspflicht der Provider'”

Großartige Idee: Busticket als Eintrittskarte (“Citymaut”) für Autos in die City

Autofahrer sollen BVG-Ticket kaufen: Verkehrssenatorin Günther erwägt neue City-Maut-Variante – Berlin – Tagesspiegel … :

“Autofahrer, die in die Innenstadt fahren wollen, müssen ein Nahverkehrsticket kaufen.”

Ich finde das brilliant, vor allem wenn man dann im Stau steht und die U-, S- oder Srtraßenbahn an den stinkenden Autoschlangen vorbeirauschen sieht. 

Quake: AI is winning at team games

 Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based reinforcement learning | Science … :

“Jaderberg et al. designed a computer program that excels at playing the video game Quake III Arena in Capture the Flag mode, where two multiplayer teams compete in capturing the flags of the opposing team. The agents were trained by playing thousands of games, gradually learning successful strategies not unlike those favored by their human counterparts. Computer agents competed successfully against humans even when their reaction times were slowed to match those of humans.“

Quake: AI is winning at team games

 Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based reinforcement learning | Science … :

“Jaderberg et al. designed a computer program that excels at playing the video game Quake III Arena in Capture the Flag mode, where two multiplayer teams compete in capturing the flags of the opposing team. The agents were trained by playing thousands of games, gradually learning successful strategies not unlike those favored by their human counterparts. Computer agents competed successfully against humans even when their reaction times were slowed to match those of humans.“

Google wants to disable Ad Blocking in Chrome, because it’s a business risk for them

This is interesting. Back to Firefox? Or will Google turn around? They have got a lot of shitstorms back, in advance – since this is not fully decided yet. But it shows a lot of the “Don’t be evil” attitude. Even Google is a business oriented enterprise, and thus wants to make money. What a surprise. I wonder what the security people say and think. A large part of successful attacks today utilize ads and ad-lookalikes…

Chrome to limit full ad blocking extensions to enterprise users – 9to5Google

“The lead developer of uBlock Origin, Raymond Hill, has commented on the situation, both to The Register and on uBlock Origin’s GitHub, pointing out that allowing ad blockers goes completely against Google’s business model.

‘Google’s primary business is incompatible with unimpeded content blocking. Now that Google Chrome product has achieve high market share, the content blocking concerns as stated in its 10K filing are being tackled.’

Google themselves have even admitted as such in a recent SEC Form 10-K filing by Alphabet, uncovered by Hill, in which ad blocking extensions are labeled as a “risk factor” to Google’s revenues.

‘New and existing technologies could affect our ability to customize ads and/or could block ads online, which would harm our business.’“

The article also links to the interesting FCC risk assessment paper Google has to file. A nice read.