Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/28/23
The scientist who invented captcha, AI is poisoning web search, New tool can break AI models, Biden's AI EO addresses cyberweapons, Stopping unlawful location disclosures, ICE scans social media
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How this Turing Award-winning researcher became a legendary academic advisor
In MIT Technology Review, Sheon Han profiles Nobel prize-winning theoretical computer scientist emeritus profess at Carnegie Mellon University and lauded teacher Manuel Blum, who, among other things, created the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, better known as the captcha.
The kinds of questions Blum poses read like paradoxes and have a somewhat playful quality, making complexity theory and cryptography sound almost like a subgenre of sci-fi. “He is completely original and goes off and d…
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