Deirdre Connolly¹ ²
Implies that inspection happens at the sender or receiver ends
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Significant change of the trust boundary
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General monitoring is already rejected
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> philosophy of science
YES
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When measurement replaces deliberation: '
“Technologies of hubris” are governance tools that try to render
uncertainty manageable through prediction, calculation, and
claims of control."
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The system starts to feel objective, even though the value judgments are being encoded into the machine
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“Technologies can be understood as forms of order as their
architectures predispose certain social and political outcomes.”
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“Some questions are not just unanswered; they are marginalized
by how research agendas, funding systems, and institutions decide what gets studied."
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If we can name the failure modes clearly, we can
help policy avoid building brittle infrastructure.
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Q: How do we get across how dangerous model classifiers are?
A: Show with examples
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Next up, '"Security vs. Interoperability'': Real Tension or False Dichotomy?', presented by Daji Landis
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A framework for analyzing “security vs interoperability” arguments
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Something between full federation and fully siloed
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Q: Why are these concerns and use cases so linked together?
A: Guessing that making money from Apple Wallet and Apple Pay is better than charging fees to third party app developers
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Next up, 'CRA and Cryptography: The Story Thus Far', presented by Markku-Juhani Saarinen
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Next up, 'When Proofs Aren’t Enough: Putting Cryptosystems in Context', presented by Gabriel Kaptchuk
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Once you start to compose lots of primitives, very strange properties can emerge (bugs)
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Burden placed on external researchers without platform-specific knowledge
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Should cryptographers be responsible for putting their proposals in context? (In the papers/specs/docs of the cryptographic proposals)
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Π_social, not to be confused with PySocial
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Q: How do we solve the problem of 'human APIs'?
A: Well, we're not even trying right now. Let's try to get closer to solving it rather than nothing at all
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Last talk of the day, 'Building Cryptographic Intellectual Infrastructure Where It Means Most: Lessons from Teaching Applied Cryptography in Post-Crisis Lebanon', presented by Nadim Kobeissi
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