Encryption algorithms too easy to beat
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Thursday, 04 August 2022 12:42

Encryption algorithms too easy to beat


Just attack the math

Encryption algorithms which were supposed to see off quantum computing are turning out to be pants.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses a rigged algorithm
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Computer tells officers to lock everyone up

A lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Bronx Defenders alleges that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses a rigged algorithm to detain virtually everyone ICEs New York Field Office brings in, even when the government itself believes they present a minimal threat to public safety.

UK Labour Party moans about tech company algorithms
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Wants them all monitored


The UK Labour Party, which is currently dragging itself kicking and screaming to the 1970s, is having an ill-informed rant about tech companies who use things called algorithms.