Tag: COVID-19

Safer Illinois, Isn’t

Wherein some furry casually saves a University tens of thousands of dollars on a NIST SP 800-171 audit they were doomed to fail anyway.

Tags AES-CBC, AES-CTR, AES-ECB, Bleichenbacher, contact tracing, COVID-19, cryptography, IND-CCA2, padding oracle, RSA, Safer Illinois, security, Vulnerability

Society The Furry Fandom

Selfishness: The Pandemic We Can’t Develop a Vaccine Against

Post author By Soatok
Post date August 9, 2021

“You’re going to love this, trust me. What you’re seeing now is my normal state. This is a super-spreader. And this… This is what is known as a super-spreader that has ascended above a super-spreader. Or, you could just call this a super-spreader two. AND THIS. AND THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!!” 2021 […]

Tags America, COVID-19, furries, furry, hackers, pandemic, Politics

Society

Why I Chose to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19

Post author By Soatok
Post date May 10, 2021
3 Comments on Why I Chose to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19

#WhyIGotVaxxed

Tags COVID-19, storytelling, vaccines

Badness

Fraudulent Apps on the Google Play Store: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Edition

Post author By Soatok
Post date May 8, 2020
2 Comments on Fraudulent Apps on the Google Play Store: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Edition

Cryptographers around the world are still designing privacy-preserving contact tracing systems for combating the spread of COVID-19. Even though some papers have been published (one using zero-knowledge proofs, another based on blockchain (sigh)), the ink is still very wet. The first framework designed by Apple and Google needs work but was surprisingly not god-awful. That […]

Tags Android, contact tracing, COVID-19, Cybercrime, fraudulent apps, Google Play, Google Play Store, information security