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Pangea Jurisdiction and Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT)
Pangea Jurisdiction and Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) The Internet of Sovereignty Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, Eliott Teissonniere James Fennell Tempelhof and Dana Edwards Bitnation, Planet Earth, April 2017 Pangea Jurisdiction and Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) The Internet of Sovereignty Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, Eliott Teissonniere, James Fennell Tempelhof and Dana Edwards Bitnation, Planet Earth, April 2017 <abstract_ The Pangea software is a Decentralized Opt-In Jurisdiction where Citizens can conduct peer- to-peer arbitration and create Nations. Pangea uses the Panthalassa mesh, which is built using Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) and Interplanetary File System (IPFS) protocols. This enables Pangea to be highly resilient and secure, conferring resistance to emergent threats such as high- performance quantum cryptography. Pangea is blockchain agnostic but uses the Ethereum blockchain for the time being. In the future, other chains such as Bitcoin, EOS and Tezos can be integrated with Pangea. The Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) is an ERC20 compatible in-app token for the Pangea Jurisdiction. The PAT token rewards good reputation and is issued on Pangea when Citizens accumulate non-tradable reputation tokens through creating a contract, successfully completing a contract or resolving a dispute attached to a contract. PAT is an algorithmic reputation token, an arbitration currency based on performance rather than purchasing power, popularity or attention. The distribution mechanism for PAT tokens on Pangea is an autonomous agent, Lucy, which will initially launch on Ethereum as a smart contract. This mechanism is blockchain agnostic and can be ported to any viable smart contract platform. An oracle created by Bitnation will help to facilitate this (semi-) autonomous distribution mechanism in a decentralized and secure fashion. -
Migration in the Stencil Pluralist Cloud Architecture
Migration in the Stencil Pluralist Cloud Architecture Tai Liu Zain Tariq Tencent America LLC New York University Abu Dhabi [email protected] [email protected] Barath Raghavan Jay Chen University of Southern California International Computer Science Institute [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT There are many important technical design challenges in decen- A debate in the research community has buzzed in the background tralized infrastructure, including security, naming, and more. Our for years: should large-scale Internet services be centralized or de- goal is to narrow the focus to the key issues the architecture must centralized? Now-common centralized cloud and web services have adjudicate as opposed to an individual application or service. We downsides—user lock-in and loss of privacy and data control—that argue that we need a pluralist architecture: one that allows the are increasingly apparent. However, their decentralized counter- co-existence of applications and seamless migration between them. parts have struggled to gain adoption, suffer from their own prob- Not only can such an architecture prevent user lock in, but it can lems of scalability and trust, and eventually may result in the exact also ease the pain of developing decentralized applications. Put same lock-in they intended to prevent. another way, a pluralist architecture is one that picks no winners: In this paper, we explore the design of a pluralist cloud architec- instead, it allows a marketplace of services to be developed, and ture, Stencil, one that can serve as a narrow waist for user-facing provides enough scaffolding and restrictions to ensure that the services such as social media. -
Filipino Death Penalty in Vietnam
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Technology Stack for Decentralized Mobile Services
Technology Stack for Decentralized Mobile Services Matouš Skála Technology Stack for Decentralized Mobile Services by Matouš Skála to obtain the degree of Master of Science at the Delft University of Technology, to be defended publicly on Monday August 31, 2020 at 3:00 PM. Student number: 4893964 Project duration: November 15, 2019 – August 31, 2020 Thesis committee: Dr.ir. J.A. Pouwelse, TU Delft, supervisor Dr. J.S. Rellermeyer, TU Delft Dr. N. Yorke-Smith, TU Delft An electronic version of this thesis is available at http://repository.tudelft.nl/. Preface When I was choosing my thesis topic, I originally came up with an idea of designing a decen- tralized social network. After realizing how ambitious that goal was, I later decided to focus on more fundamental issues first and create a library that would allow for building any de- centralized applications, running purely on an overlay network consisting of smartphones. Rather than reinventing the wheel, I took inspiration from an existing networking library de- veloped at TU Delft over the last decade and created its wire-compatible implementation in Kotlin. Interestingly, in the end, I have even implemented a trivial social network to demon- strate the usage of the library, returning back to the original idea. I would like to thank my supervisor Johan Pouwelse for an endless stream of fresh ideas and valuable feedback, and to PhD students of the Delft Blockchain Lab for numerous coffee meetings and for serving me as a walking documentation of the existing codebase. Matouš Skála Prague, -
Transnational Child Sex Offending: Tackling a Growing International Phenomenon
Transnational child sex offending: tackling a growing international phenomenon Sarah Wefers & Derek Perkins NOTA conference, 2019, Belfast Property of NOTA 2019 Offender characteristics associated with transnational child sex offending: A systematic review Sarah Wefers1, F. Jeane Gerard2, Kate Whitfield1, & Jennifer Drabble1 1 2 @s_wefers Property of NOTA 2019 Background • Definition: Transnational child sex offending is the commission of sexual offences against children abroad (NCA, 2015) ▫ 'child sex tourism', 'travelling sex offenders' or 'sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism' (Koning & Rijksen- van Dijke, 2016) • 1-2 million victims every year (Koning & Rijksen-van Dijke, 2016) • victimisation is associated with severe and enduring physical, psychological and social consequences (Mekinc & Music, 2015; Panko & George, 2012) • child trafficking and child exploitation for sexual purposes is a "billion dollar global industry" (Kosuri & Jeglic, 2017) Property of NOTA 2019 Where does it happen? • has mostly been related to developing countries ▫ e.g. Thailand, Philippines, South America, Africa • but recently it was identified that more affluent countries are increasingly affected by transnational child sex offending (Hawke & Raphael, 2016) • "There is no hemisphere, continent, or region unaffected by the child-sex trade" (Klain, 1999, p. 32) Property of NOTA 2019 Example: European case Property of NOTA 2019 Property of NOTA 2019 Transnational child sex offenders (TCSOs): typologies Motivation/ trigger (e.g. George & Modus -
Service Competition and Data-Centric Protocols for Internet Access
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses October 2019 Service Competition and Data-Centric Protocols for Internet Access Thiago Teixeira University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Digital Communications and Networking Commons Recommended Citation Teixeira, Thiago, "Service Competition and Data-Centric Protocols for Internet Access" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations. 1770. https://doi.org/10.7275/15202406 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1770 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SERVICE COMPETITION AND DATA-CENTRIC PROTOCOLS FOR INTERNET ACCESS A Dissertation Presented by THIAGO TEIXEIRA Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2019 Electrical and Computer Engineering © Copyright by Thiago Teixeira 2019 All Rights Reserved SERVICE COMPETITION AND DATA-CENTRIC PROTOCOLS FOR INTERNET ACCESS A Dissertation Presented by THIAGO TEIXEIRA Approved as to style and content by: Tilman Wolf, Co-chair Michael Zink, Co-chair Jay Taneja, Member Anna Nagurney, Member Christopher V. Hollot, Department Head Electrical and Computer Engineering DEDICATION To my wife Cavaille and my parents Norma and Jose Roberto. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Tilman Wolf, for his much valuable guid- ance and lessons learned during my doctorate. I would also like to thank Professor Michael Zink for supporting, guiding, and working together in many exciting projects. -
P2P-Hate-Report.Pdf
I’m in a community called Scuttlebutt which uses Peer-to-Peer technology. This is a type of technology that works radically differently from the internet as we know it now and offers a powerful vision for a resilient and sustainable future for technology and social movements. One evening, a friend who is a developer on Scuttlebutt and also has marginalized identities like myself messaged me and a small group of others with great concern writing: “Ok - so we have nazis already using scuttlebutt. When the NZ shootings happened I had a dream that in the news it was announced that they had been using an enclave of scuttlebutt to organise and radicalise. It seems inevitable that this will happen…” It continued a long conversation about the risks created by these radical technologies. My friend was genuinely afraid. So was I. And I still am. Like so many others, he had put a ton of work into cultivating both the community and the technology. He was scared both that the product of so many people’s love would become a central aid in white-supremacist organizing and that the community wasn’t ready to deal with the fall out of such a “nightmarish vision.” In most Peer-to-Peer communities it is impossible to surveill them or know how many people are using them because they are secure and often private by design. The only way to even catch a glimpse of how many white supremacists are using them is when they post on leaked forums or public websites. Otherwise, unless their conversations are infiltrated, we can only see the tips of the iceberg of the violence (or good!) facilitated by these technologies. -
Hyperwell: Local-First, Collaborative Notebooks for Digital Annotation
Hyperwell: Local-First, Collaborative Notebooks for Digital Annotation A thesis presented for the degree of Master of Science by Jan Kaßel [email protected] 3724135 at the Institute of Computer Science Universität Leipzig, Germany May 4, 2020 Advisor & First Examiner Second Examiner Dr. Thomas Köntges Prof. Gregory Crane Chair of Digital Humanities Department of Classical Studies Leipzig University Tufts University Except where otherwise noted, content in this thesis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License¹, which permits un- restricted adaption, use, and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited the resulting work is licensed under the same terms as the original. The source code of all Hyperwell repositories is available as open-source soft- ware, licensed under the more permissive MIT License. Copyright 2020, Jan Kaßel. 1. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Table of Contents Abstract i Acknowledgements ii List of Abbreviations iii List of Figures iv 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation: A Question of Ownership ................ 3 1.2 Research Goals and Affiliated Work ................. 4 1.3 Synopsis ................................ 5 2 Related Work 7 2.1 Hypertext and Annotation ....................... 7 2.2 Digital Real-Time Collaboration ................... 10 2.3 Linked Data and Digital Humanities . 12 2.4 Peer-to-Peer Networks ........................ 16 2.5 Local-First Applications ........................ 20 3 Study: Exploring Collaborative Workflows 22 3.1 Study Framework ........................... 25 3.2 Analyzing Digital Workflows ..................... 27 3.3 Setting and Observations ....................... 30 3.4 Results ................................. 32 4 Peer-to-Peer Annotation 35 4.1 What’s (Not) Wrong with Servers? . -
Trustnet: Trust-Based Moderation Using Distributed Chat Systems for Transitive Trust Propagation
TrustNet: Trust-based Moderation Using Distributed Chat Systems for Transitive Trust Propagation Alexander Cobleigh Department of Automatic Control MSc Thesis TFRT-6102 ISSN 0280-5316 Department of Automatic Control Lund University Box 118 SE-221 00 LUND Sweden © 2020 by Alexander Cobleigh. All rights reserved. Printed in Sweden by Tryckeriet i E-huset Lund 2020 Abstract This thesis introduces TrustNet, a flexible and distributed system for deriving, and interacting with, computational trust. The focus of the thesis is applying TrustNet as a tool within distributed chat systems for implementing a subjective moderation sys- tem. Two distributed chat systems, Secure Scuttlebutt and Cabal, are discussed, the latter having been extended with a proof of concept implementation of the proposed system. The concept of ranking strategies is also introduced as a general purpose technique for converting a produced set of rankings into strategy-defined subsets. This work proposes a complete trust system that can be incorporated as a ready- made software component for distributed ledger technologies, and which provides real value for impacted users by way of automating decision-making and actions as a result of assigned trust scores. 3 Acknowledgements I want to start by thanking Johan Eker, my thesis supervisor from the department of Automatic Control at Lund University, for his support, patience, advice and feed- back in this unusually long Master’s thesis. I am very glad you took the time to listen to the random student dropping by your office to pitch his thesis idea. I also greatly appreciate the frequent discussions we have had throughout the thesis pro- cess. -
The Deep Dark
THE DEEP DARK WEB Pierluigi Paganini—Richard Amores Published by Paganini Amores at Smashwords Copyright 2012 Paganini–Amores The Deep Dark Web - paganini/amores publishing 212 providence St, West Warwick, RI 02893 - 401-400-2932 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This book contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author / publisher. The information in this book is distributed on an “As Is and for educational only” basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author nor Paganini-Amores publishing. shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book. ISBN: 9781301147106 Publisher – Paganini – Amores For information on book distributors or translations, please contact Publisher Paganini –Amores 212 Providence St Rhode Island 02893 Or Via Dell'Epomeo 180 Parco del Pino Fab.C Sc. A 80126 - Napoli (ITALY) Phone 401-400-2932 – [email protected] deepdarkweb.com – uscyberlabs.com – securityaffairs.co Graphics Designer – Gianni Motta was born in Naples in 1977. He is a creative with over ten years in the field of communication, graphic and web designer. Currently he is in charge for Communication Manager in a cyber security firm. -
Thesis Title
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM UNIVERSITA` DI BOLOGNA SCUOLA DI INGEGNERIA E ARCHITETTURA Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni DARKNET E DEEP WEB: IL LATO OSCURO DEL WEB PER LA PRIVACY E LA PROTEZIONE DEI DATI Elaborata nel corso di: Sistemi Distribuiti Tesi di Laurea di: Relatore: PATRYK WOJTOWICZ Prof. ANDREA OMICINI Co-relatori: STEFANO MARIANI ANNO ACCADEMICO 2013 2014 SESSIONE III 1 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||{ Indice Contents 1 1 Introduzione 1 2 I Dati 2 2.1 Dati informatici . .2 2.2 Organizzazione dei dati . .2 2.3 Big Data e Data Mining . .3 2.4 Metadati . .7 2.5 Consapevolezza dei dati . .8 3 Privacy 10 3.1 Dati sensibili e personali . 10 3.2 Concetto di privacy nel mondo . 11 3.3 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali . 13 4 Sicurezza 15 4.1 Una nuova era . 15 4.1.1 Datagate . 18 4.1.2 Violazione dei dati in Europa . 20 4.2 Cookie . 21 4.2.1 Caratteristiche . 22 4.2.2 Problemi sulla privacy . 23 4.3 Sicurezza nel mobile . 24 5 Deep Web 27 5.1 Il lato nascosto di Internet . 27 5.2 Tor Browser Bundle: la porta per il Deep Web . 29 5.2.1 Aspetti problematici . 34 5.2.2 L'altra faccia della medaglia . 35 6 Darknet 39 6.1 Freenet . 39 6.1.1 Storia . 39 6.1.2 Caratteristiche e interfaccia utente . 40 6.1.3 Specifiche tecniche . 41 2 3 6.1.4 Darknet VS OpenNet . 44 6.2 anoNet . 45 6.2.1 Cos'`eAnonet . 45 6.3 StealthNet . -
Cyrus Vance, Jr
Cyrus Vance, Jr. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. has been Manhattan District Attorney since 2010. D.A. Vance’s achievements include takedowns of major gun traffickers and international cybercrime operations, the first-ever convictions on New York State terror charges, and the allocation of $35 million to help end the national backlog of untested rape kits. He has reduced unnecessary incarceration and ended the prosecution of thousands of low-level, nonviolent offenses annually, most recently ending the criminal prosecution of marijuana possession and smoking, as well as subway turnstile-jumping. D.A. Vance is the co-founder and co-chair of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, and co-founder of the Global Cyber Alliance. Draft Written Testimony of New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. Before the Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice Final Version to be Submitted at Later Date April 15, 2020 Good afternoon Chairman Keith, Vice Chairman Sullivan, and Commissioners of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. Before I begin my remarks, I want to wish all of you, your Commission’s staff, and your personal staff in your home jurisdictions the very best during this extremely difficult time. On behalf of my Office and our partners in state and local law enforcement, I commend this Commission for holding today’s important virtual panel on technology issues encountered by law enforcement. I thank you for the opportunity to testify on encryption and lawful access – a vital issue of local, state, and national public safety. This past December, I testified before the U.S.