Collaborate Disseminate
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 forced surge pricing, after interviews… Continue reading 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 think about the game theory… Continue reading Shadow Brokers Releases the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools
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 question is not just how… Continue reading 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 attributed to the NSA. Some… Continue reading Major NSA/Equation Group Leak