Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-10]: A very interesting wave of security breaches has been made public during the last months. Citigroup announcing the theft of 200,000 customer data is the last one of a series of events involving intrusions to the most well-known companies of the world. From Lockheed Martin and SONY, RSA (the biggest computer security company in the planet) also announced that it has to replace 40,000,000 security cards of corporate customers after a similar event. The RSA-129 code puzzle was once announced publicly, to show how the RSA code was practically unbreakable. Its creators thought then that the code could break in thousands of years with the technologies available at the time. It only took mathematicians 17 years… Could the easiness of entering a corporate network and getting thousands of encrypted information imply that 17 years are now… less? When the secure is not secure any more, where can one turn to? The greatest security was always one: being with the right side…
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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-16]: We live in a world which is controlled more and more by algorithms which we do not understand. [source: BBC News] Our monomania for "understanding" and "control" has reduced everything into code where there should only be love...
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-10]: A very interesting wave of security breaches has been made public during the last months. Citigroup announcing the theft of 200,000 customer data is the last one of a series of events involving intrusions to the most well-known companies of the world. From Lockheed Martin and SONY, RSA (the biggest computer security company in the planet) also announced that it has to replace 40,000,000 security cards of corporate customers after a similar event. The RSA-129 code puzzle was once announced publicly, to show how the RSA code was practically unbreakable. Its creators thought then that the code could break in thousands of years with the technologies available at the time. It only took mathematicians 17 years… Could the easiness of entering a corporate network and getting thousands of encrypted information imply that 17 years are now… less? When the secure is not secure any more, where can one turn to? The greatest security was always one: being with the right side…
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-08]: A lot of controversy is around for the automatic Facebook face recognition functionality, that will “read” all images uploaded in the social network and automatically tag faces it finds there [source: BBC News]. We are not really far from the era when the Internet will automatically find our friends on its own, based on the photos we all take when we go at an ATM, an airport, a public building or just walk in the street… Maybe the time when everything is deterministic (and determined by computer programs) is coming more quick than we imagine…
