Co-Operating.Systems

Talk given @PrivacyWeek in Vienna describes cooperating systems from a high level Philosophical point of view illustrated with concepts from Science-Fiction.

Kieron O’Hara and Dame Wendy Hall paper on the Geopolitics of Digital Governance gives a big picture overview of the different visions and tensions pulling the internet and the web in different directions.

This looks like a good present for Chrismas. (It is also freely available to be printed.)

An example of the type of application that could be built on co-operating.systems.

Just uploaded by short talk: "Epistemology in the Cloud: On Fake News and Digital Sovereignty" which gives a high level overview of the SoLiD project of Tim Berners-Lee's new startup Inrupt. This was made for the #desemweb track of the International Semantic Web Conference taking place in Monterey right now. Enjoy :-) Paper and other links are at https://co-operating.systems/2018/10/08/I SWC

If you are a programmer and want to learn about #CategoryTheory then the videos by Bartosz Milewski are fantastic - also look at "Category Theory for Computing Science" by Michael Barr and Charles Wells http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/articl es/22/tr22.pdf

How Holywood photographers got taken for a ride. And a Magicians view on social engineering.

"Identity on the Web and the Blockchain" a new post on the Southampton Cyber Security Blog.

How do personal #identity claims work? How can they be verified? How does the #blockchain help or mislead? A short article that takes a whirlwhind tour from syntax to semantics and from there to aspects of verification and enforcement. #digitalhumanities

Apple Inc.'s #TouchBar - understood as a 2nd screen - could have a part which is trusted and owned by the Operating System to display the party owning the full screen. This would stop #Phishing based on GUI confusion attacks - such as an application that would taking over the whole screen.

A short (6 min read) article looking at the User Interface aspect of #Phishing. It gives a quick (psycho)logical analysis of UI elements involved in using a computer which leads to a proposal that makes use of a recent underappreciated innovation by Apple Inc. that could make Phishing a much more difficult art.

The APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) reported a 6 fold increase in 2017 of #phishing sites located on #https servers. The aim of the phishers is to mislead people into a false sense of confidence by using the green lock signal in the url bar. In this article I explain how this works and what missing piece of web infrastructure is needed to make this a lot less effective. #X509 #TLS #Trust #Browsers

Very good at showing the constant tension between needing to trust and needing to be suspicious.

Bryan Ford who heads the decentralised and distributed systems group at EPFL in Switzerland, asked why the institutional web of trust would avoid the problems of the PGP one. Tim Berners-Lee thought this was a question looking at seriously, and so here is an in depth answer. Feedback welcome.

Both #PGP and the proposal on the Institutional Web of Trust use the notion of a "Web of Trust". Here we explain the differences and similarities between these two notions, and why hyperdata version is a lot more flexible than the #GPG one.

In the newly released book "Saving Britain" Andrew Adonis and Will Hutton make the case for #redecentralize-ing England. The severe reduction in local democracy over the last century is what lead to #Brexit, not the #EU which is an alliance of Sovereign states. This short book review points out how that argument relates to the state of the web.