UNSW Professor/ Accidentalteacher / Podcast host / Cyber Security Engineer / Director First Year Student Experience @UNSW Wait, what does this button do
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Compelling summary of the scientific news of the year - the Chinese designer baby shock. From leading human genome editing expert @MerlinCrossley
crossleylab.wordpress.com/20…
@charliepick @UNSWScience @UNSW #TomorrowTonight #CRISPRbabies
This is what #authoritarianism looks like. It's against the LAW to do things I don't like you doing.
“Winnie the Pooh” is one of the numerous words and phrases that have been banned from social media and using them is even against Chinese law.
#Censorship
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#China #marathon: "258 participants caught #cheating.. wearing fake bibs.. three impostors.. taken shortcuts during the race ..caught out by traffic cameras & photographers"
Wow. So many cheat, and so much effort to detect cheaters (who cares?), and such surveillance..
This does not bode well for the future of a society when it fosters a "win at all costs" mentality. It was just a #halfmarathon #ffs #suckitup 😡 bit.ly/2Rn4L6f
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I think we all have the potential and inclination to be kind. That some people act cruelly to me is a failure of education -at school & home & in the community. I hope her experience of young students, like mine, and of their wonderful natures is enough to offset this nasty act.
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Yep, that's what you want from a voting system; you want its security to benefit from that well known gold standard of cyber security: 'security through obscurity'.
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Finally the included PwC report claims that the limited number of eligible voters has allowed "...the system to benefit from ‘security through obscurity’, and therefore, the level of risk management of iVote at present is appropriate based on current scale and scope of its use."
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And we shouldn't worry about coercion because Prof Smith contends coercion "is simply not part of the culture or social mores of Australian elections and has not and is not likely to be an issue." Neither was shoplifting from supermarkets, but self-service checkouts changed that.
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... how is that not a receipt? If you can reveal how you voted then you have a receipt, it doesn't matter if it is a physical receipt or a 'virtual' receipt.
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On the issue of coercion the report misses the point so widely as to be dumbfounding. Apparently it isn't a concern as "There is no receipt that reveals the content of the vote, although it would be possible to use the verification process to reveal the content of the vote." ...
First time in Washington for terrific #CyberwarCon and finally got to see two very special things. So happy right now.
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“The #students here should be seen as people and not just pupils” This school has a deliberate process to make sure every student has at least one #teacher in the building who knows their name. So they feel valued. Important. #studentsAsPeople
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Dell data breach:
‘’Dell is announcing that it detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to extract Dell.com customer information, which was limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords” dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1…
A long list of Google employees demands Google stops working on their censored browser #Dragonfly" for China.
theintercept.com/2018/08/01/… perhaps inspired by #googlewalkout - as always #insiders are a powerful threat. #censorship #Whistleblower
We are Google employees. Google must drop Dragonfly. by Google Employees Against Dragonfly link.medium.com/B5UTh9CldS
Great read. A cunning attack via a malicious change to a trusted open source package that many depend upon but few check. There are just too many dependencies nowadays. This is going to keep happening...
Exploiting developer infrastructure is insanely easy
medium.com/@jsoverson/exploi…
No point in national #science reform just being a talk fest or just enhancing current strengths, it must lead to long term strengthening of Australian science - i.e. #education
PM @ScottMorrisonMP & I have today announced a new National Science and Technology Council. This Council will enable a stronger voice for science and technology in the national conversation, to create more Australian jobs.
minister.industry.gov.au/min…
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#NowNow He Jiankui -Chinese scientist whose claim to have created gene edited babies initially met with skepticism, just presented at the international Human Genome Editing Summit. Apparently provided verifiable data!
The world may be about to change @charliepick #TomorrowTonight
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Reminds me why I fell in love with Science as a child. Science is so powerful and so breathtaking. Meticulous work and inspired investigation
#science #lovescience #scicomm
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