Chapter 7
Ulysses pact
Masha explains it very well. Apparently, there are “Ulysses pact” applications and other technologies to help you keep your promises.
Learn more:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact (look for “Technological context”)
- https://ulyssespact.com.au/
- https://blog.trello.com/master-goals-ulysses-pact
Adversarial perturbation
An “adversarial perturbation” is a change to a physical object that is deliberately designed to fool a machine-learning system into mistaking it for something else. (from an article written by Cory Doctorow)
Learn more:
- https://boingboing.net/2017/08/07/nam-shub-of-enki.html
- https://boingboing.net/2017/03/29/countermeasures-are-a-thing.html
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08945.pdf
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08087
CV dazzle
A type of camouflage used to hamper facial recognition software, inspired by dazzle camouflage used by warships.
Learn more:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_dazzle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
- https://cvdazzle.com/
Machine learning
Ange does a great job explaining machine learning as simple as possible.
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Red team
A red team is a group that helps organizations to improve themselves by providing opposition to the point of view of the organization that they are helping.
Learn more:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team
- https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Red_Team
- https://www.redteamsecure.com/blog/what-is-red-teaming-and-why-do-i-need-it-2/
USB stick with keypad
Probably Marcus uses something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Encrypted-Certified-Protection-Encryption-16G/dp/B07JNDW5H7/
Uslon prison
Apparently it’s an abbreviation from GULAG days, not a place: USLON: “Upravlenie Severnykh Lagerey Osobogo Naznacheniya”, Directorate of Northern Special-Significance Camps
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Hyperbolic discounting
It is well explained by Ange in the book. Hyperbolic discounting refers to the tendency for people to increasingly choose a smaller-sooner reward over a larger-later reward as the delay occurs sooner rather than later in time.
Learn more:
- http://www.behaviorlab.org/Papers/Hyperbolic.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting
Sukey
Sukey is an organization which emerged in Britain on 28 January 2011, with the aim of improving communications among participants in the student demonstrations. Its immediate aim was to counteract the police tactics of kettling, by coordinating information electronically and transmitting it to the protesters, allowing them to avoid the police kettle.
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Kettling
A police tactic for controlling large crowds.
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