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The Walking Dead returns with its mid-season premiere on Sunday night, promising to be darker and more dangerous than ever.
Showrunner, , revealed that the remainder of Season 4 is going to stick closely to the comic book narrative, while TWD creator, Robert Kirkman, has admitted that AMC is worried that Season 4 is "too dark." This is all very good news. So with that in mind, here are three storylines from the source material the show could draw from in the coming weeks.
Word of warning: this article is incredibly spoilery for those of you that haven't read the comics. Do not read on if you want your Walking Dead experience to remain pure.
You've been warned.
Killer Siblings
One particularly brutal storyline in the comic involves two twins, Ben and Billy. Having lost both their parents, the twins are taken in by Andrea and Dale, but Ben starts to exhibit psychotic tendencies in the form of violence towards other kids and his new hobby of killing and mutilating animals. It should have acted as a warning it but went unchecked. This was a big mistake, because on the road to Washington Ben brutally murders Billy, believing that everybody comes back from the dead.
While the adults debate on whether or not to kill Ben to protect themselves, Carl sneaks into the van where he is being locked up and executes him without mercy.
While Billy and Ben don't exist in the TV show, we do have Lizzie and Mika and the older sibling has certainly shown signs of being slightly unhinged. She probably killed and mutilated a rat and she had a strange relationship with a walker which she'd named and talked to. I still believe that she was responsible for killing Karen and she executed Alisha without hesitation. Could her sister be next?
The Hunt
TWD creator, Robert Kirkman, has admitted that AMC are "nervous" about how dark the remainder of Season 4 is going to be and I believe this is because we are going to get The Hunters storyline, which is one of the most iconic - and brutal - in Walking Dead lore.
The Hunters are a group of survivors hostile to Rick and his gang because... well because they are hungry and fresh meat tastes the best — even if that meat happens to be human. It's implied that The Hunters ate their own children in order to survive and they stalk Rick and his group as they make their way to Washington. Dale is captured and his leg eaten (yeah, they really went there) and Glenn is also wounded in an attack.
However, Rick's retribution is swift and brutal. With the aid of Michonne, Andrea and Abraham, they track down the group and brutally kill them all using their bladed weapons. It was a turning point for them all and something that they never really came from.
City Break
It's a question of "when" not "if" the group reaches the Alexandria Safe Zone and my guess is it will happen during the season finale. However, it's not the destination but the journey that matters, and the journey in question involves a trip to the nation's capital, Washington DC. Apart from a couple of scavenging hunts there's not a great deal of action that takes place in DC, but in terms of scale, scope and generally "holy shit, that's awesome and scary", it would be up there with the group's adventures in Atlanta back in Season 1. And let's be honest, who doesn't want to see Capitol Hill overrun by parasites and bottom feeders? It wouldn't be much different to how things are now (satire! boom!)
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The hills are alive...or something like that. Most people come to Salzburg because of the Sound of Music, I have still never seen the movie. I came to see the Alps and the beautiful countryside that western Austria has to offer. I was not disappointed with Salzburg...in fact, quite the opposite. It is one of the more well known cities in western Austria, perhaps because of the Sound of Music or even Mozart. I came expecting to find a very touristy city, and although the hostels play the Sound of Music every night, the city and it's people were great.
Although I personally didn't have an interest in the Sound of Music, I still decided that I would take some time to see some of the sites during my two days there.
As strange as it sounds, in the square right near the cathedral, there were several...rather expensive cars on show. We're talking Ferraris here! The really strange part was Ronald McDonald up on stange talking in German at this event. He talked too fast for me to understand what he was saying, and my German's not that good anyway. So, I never figured out why the cars were there, but it was cool to see them all.
After leaving the area, I headed through the shopping district of town and found the imposing Dom, another church in the area. After that, I made my way back across the river and climbed a smaller hill near the town that offered some great views. I took some photos there and stopped back at the hostel, where I met up with two people I had met in Vienna. We ventured back out into the city, and headed over to Mozart's birthplace. It is a self guided tour, and contains many relics from his life. It was neat, but not terribly interesting unless you are really into Mozart. After visiting there, we for some reason headed over to Mozart's childhood home, and did the same thing...by that time we were defintely Mozarted out.
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More than a month after Shanghai launched its campaign to tame our unruly traffic, I want to use this space to call for a similar campaign that is badly needed to clean up our city's increasingly chaotic sidewalks. Anyone who lives here will know I'm talking about the legions of delivery bikes and scooters that have exploded onto Shanghai's sidewalks over the last few years, creating a nightmare for those of us who actually use sidewalks for walking.
This particular tale began five or six years ago with the rapid rise of e-commerce, which spawned a flood of courier services delivering everything from computers and furniture to USB thumb drives. But the problem has become much worse over the last year with a newer explosion of take-out dining services, which have unleashed thousands more bikes and scooters onto our sidewalks.
This relatively sudden and massive introduction of delivery scooters has made our sidewalks look similar to the bicycle lanes that used to be quite common in China just 20 years ago but have largely disappeared in today's Shanghai. Perhaps the city should consider bringing back these lanes to accommodate all the new delivery vehicles, though at this point such a move would probably just worsen traffic congestion that is already quite severe.
I first chronicled the sudden boom in take-out dining services nearly a year ago, noting the trend with some amusement and predicting it would be short-lived. Perhaps that's still true, but in the meantime the phenomenon has exploded over the last half year.
Hungry to deliver
On any given day, I can spot dozens of take-out dining scooters zipping up and down the streets and sidewalks near my home in Hongkou District. And rather than consolidating due to the sudden stiff competition, the field of names seems to keep getting bigger. Just this week I discovered yet another new entrant to the field, a company called Feng Niao, which I learned from one of its deliverymen has a relationship with Ele.me, the earliest major player.
That pair, with their trademark blue-and-white food pouches, are just two of the many names whose bikes are taking over our sidewalks. Others include Baidu, with its red-and-white pouches and their fork logos; Meituan, with its black-and-yellow pouches and kangaroo logos; and smaller names like Dada and Dianwoba. One restaurant near my home has become a watering hole for Meituan and Ele.me couriers, with up to 20 of their bikes parked randomly outside on the sidewalk at any given time.
The situation is equally bad around the university where I teach in suburban Yangpu District. One recent day I noticed two delivery bikes drop off food in just a couple of minutes through a locked gate at one of the main dormitory areas. So I stayed and watched for the next 10 or 15 minutes, and saw a steady stream of deliverymen dropping off food at around the rate of every two or three minutes.
Keep sidewalks safe
This phenomenon should be alarming not only for what it's doing to our sidewalks, but also for the bigger implications for our city's youth who are some of these services' biggest fans. I don't mean to sound like a grumpy old man, but this younger generation doesn't seem to want to leave their homes or dormitories for anything, preferring to do all their shopping and dining using their computers.
That tendency is certainly not helping China's growing battle with youth obesity. A recent poll conducted in Shandong Province is typical of the broader national situation, showing 17 percent of boys and 9 percent of girls between 7 and 18 were obese. That marked a huge rise from 30 years earlier, when less than one percent of children in that age group fit that description.
All of that brings us back to the delivery bike phenomenon and what, if anything, the city should do to make our sidewalks friendlier for pedestrians. I remember a time just a few years ago when our sidewalks were equally cluttered, then though the culprits were illegal hawkers selling everything from greasy street food to cheap clothing and accessories.
The city embarked on a campaign to clean up that clutter a few years ago with surprisingly good results, and should consider a similar campaign now. In this case it's probably unrealistic to outlaw these scooters and bikes completely, since most are probably operating legally and provide a real service that people want.
But perhaps the city could consider rules that would force deliverymen to walk their scooters on sidewalks rather than ride, and also to park in designated areas rather than in any random spot. Local officials are showing they are capable of such efforts through their ongoing traffic clean-up campaign, and should seriously consider launching a similar new effort for these delivery bikes.
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Jennifer Hudson performing with a choir from the Sandy Hook elementary school was always going to be a hard act to follow. But Alicia Keys managed to make even the hardened members of the Ravens and the 49ers shed a few tears with her rendition of America's National Anthem.
The singer obviously put her heart and soul into the performance - and managed to look beautiful in the process in a curve-clinging stand-out scarlet dress and a gold choker necklace.
Alicia preceded the mind-blowing half-time show put on by Beyoncé and Destiny's Child so, all in all, girl power was packing a punch.
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Raiffeisenbank acted as advisor to TRASSA Group on debt restructuring. The deal was structured as a RUB 15.8 bln syndicated loan facility, based on the sample documentation for syndicated loans (so called «Russian LMA»), and a series of bilateral transactions. Syndicated loan facility was signed on October 5, 2016 by ten Russian banks. Other banks outside the syndicate (comprising app. RUB 3.2 bln of debt) were restructured on a bilateral basis, however in line with the terms of the syndicate. Total amount of restructured debt obligations of the Group exceeded RUB 20 bln.
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Absolut Bank, Avtovazbank, BKF Bank, Bank ZENIT, Bank Credit Express, Otkritie Bank, Promsvyazbank, Raiffeisenbank, Tempbank and UniCredit Bank joined the syndicated loan. Raiffeisenbank acted as the Group's restructuring advisor, mandated lead arranger of the deal, as well as facility agent and security agent.
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Orlando Employee Discounts offers exclusive pricing on hotels and vacation homes in or nearby Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando. They are the largest wholesaler of tickets for Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando, Sea World, and all Orlando area theme parks and attractions.
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The DEA now has the following theme park tickets. The Office accepts cash only and you must have exact change for tickets purchased. See Sharon Robertson in the Benefits Office or call her at (212) 587-9120.
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DEA members get 20% off at the Touch 'Em All Sports Complex, where you can get ready for your ball playing season with baseball and softball training. The facility is at 61 Maple Avenue in Haverstraw, New York 10927.
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Summer is here and with it comes those long days at the beach soaking up all the sun and vitamin D
To get the most of your vacation you need to find the perfect sun block for your skin preventing those sun burns and premature aging skin (who wants wrinkles at 22? not me!), for that manner I gathered a few of my favorite sun screens to share with you.
I never leave the house without sun screen, even when I'm not going to beach!
You can find a ton of good sun screens for every skin type. Mine has a tendency to be oily to combination so I always look for those that say oil free. I find Nivea Sun Anti-Age an amazing one and I've talked about it before here.
Uriage Barié Sun Créme Teintée Dorée is another fantastic sun screen that works as a tinted moisturizer too. Perfect for those of you with a much paler skin that has a tendency to burn instead of tan, just like mine! Too bad a got the Medium shade and it's too dark for me, so I can only wear it when mix in with my regular moisturizer.
If you have acne prone skin there is one sun screen that I always recommend from La Roche Posay Anthelios XL Dry Touch Cream. I wore it when I was doing my acne treatment and it was the best thing.
I always like to try different ones and that's why I have a good collection of them! Garnier and Nivea are my go to drugstore sun screens because they are affordable and have a lot of different SPF's.
For the beginning of the summer my favorites to wear are Garnier Ambre Solair Clear Protect + or Nivea Sun Protect & Refresh. They are both clear mists and it doesn't feel like you're wearing a thick layer of sun screen no matter how many times you apply it.
From the middle to the end of the summer I like to switch up and wear the Garnier Ambre Solair Golden Protect Shimmering Protection Lotion. This one has tiny particles that reflects light giving you a sun kissed glow, perfect for when you have already a bit of a tan.
When I have a good budget to spend I always go for the Piz Buin line, being my favorites the Piz Buin Allergy and the Piz Buin Tan and Protect Intensifying Sun Lotion.
When I can, I like to use a bronzing oil. Don't worry I only wear them between 9am to 12am and 4pm until I leave the beach. I always wear it on top of my sun screen just so I don't burn and this actually helps me getting a nicer and beautiful tan! My go to favorites are the Garnier Golden Protect Protective Oil and the Nivea Sun Deep Tanning Oil Spray
No matter what you wear, the important thing is that you don't forget to: apply it 30 minutes before you're going to lay in the sun and re apply it every 2 hours or after you come out of the water!
What products do you usually use to shield you from the sun?
Let me know in the comments below!
See you on my next post,
Ana Leote


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Ofcourse, this letter is just a small (and non-legal) part of your estate plan.You still need to cover your legal bases with at least a will, living will,health care proxy and durable powers of attorney.
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Big Challenges, Big Opportunities, Big Impact: LexisNexis Announces First Rule of Law Hackathon 'Hack the Change' in London to tackle LGBT* Rights Abuses Across the Globe
This LexisNexis event, in collaboration with the Human Dignity Trust, and supported by Amazon Web Services and leading law firms, brings together experts from the legal and technology worlds to design a solution that will help defend global LGBT* rights and advance the rule of law
London, November 03, 2016 – LexisNexis is delighted to announce Hack the Change: a series of hackathons that bring together legal experts and technology experts with a shared aim of advancing the rule of law around the world. Harnessing the collective force of up to 100 talented coders, developers, data scientists, mobile experts, game developers and other relevant experts across the legal and technology industries, Hack the Change aims to leverage technology to protect those who live outside of the umbrella of the rule of law.
Hack the Change is the first event of its kind in the UK and will begin at the Westminster Impact Hub on the 11th November 2016.
An energetic 48 hours later, the winning team will be selected by a panel of judges from our partners, including event sponsors Amazon Web Services (AWS); LGBT* charity partner The Human Dignity Trust; and leading law firms including Freshfields, Hogan Lovells, and Osborne Clarke.
Importantly, the Human Dignity Trust will take the winning concept forward to production following the event.
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LexisNexis Hack the Change lead, Amy Carton, said "A staggering four billion people live outside the protection of the rule of law.
In just one weekend, Hack the Change can help to improve that statistic and change people's lives for the better.
The LGBT* community are particularly at risk of abuse to their fundamental rights. We are proud that this inaugural event will be focussing on producing a tool to bring about a real impact in challenging this unacceptable situation."
Téa Braun, Legal Director of the Human Dignity Trust said: "Laws that criminalise consensual same-sex intimacy not only invade into the most private aspects of one's life, they tyrannise LGBT people's very existence.
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These laws also foster generalised homophobia across societies, leading to physical attacks, rape, forced marriage, social exclusion, homelessness, and discrimination in education, employment, health services and housing. We are delighted that LexisNexis, and their collaborators, are so invested in making this important event happen, and we look forward to seeing the results."
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The NSA and GCHQ have been studying Tor for a decade, looking for ways to penetrate online anonymity, at least according to these Snowden docs.
In 2014, the US government paid Carnegie Mellon University to run a series of poisoned Tor relays to de-anonymise Tor users.
A 2015 research paper outlined an attack effective, under certain circumstances, at decloaking Tor hidden services (now rebranded as "onion services"). Most recently, 110 poisoned Tor hidden service directories were discovered probing .onion sites for vulnerabilities, most likely in an attempt to de-anonymise both the servers and their visitors. Enlarge / Who can forget the now-famous "Tor stinks" slide that was part of the Snowden trove of leaked docs. Cracks are beginning to show; a 2013 analysis by researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), who helped develop Tor in the first place, concluded that "80 percent of all types of users may be de-anonymised by a relatively moderate Tor-relay adversary within six months." Despite this conclusion, the lead author of that research, Aaron Johnson of the NRL, tells Ars he would not describe Tor as broken—the issue is rather that it was never designed to be secure against the world's most powerful adversaries in the first place. "It may be that people's threat models have changed, and it's no longer appropriate for what they might have used it for years ago," he explains. "Tor hasn't changed, it's the world that's changed." New threats Enlarge / Tor use in Turkey spiked during the recent crackdown. Tor's weakness to traffic analysis attacks is well-known.
The original design documents highlight the system's vulnerability to a "global passive adversary" that can see all the traffic both entering and leaving the Tor network.
Such an adversary could correlate that traffic and de-anonymise every user. But as the Tor project's cofounder Nick Mathewson explains, the problem of "Tor-relay adversaries" running poisoned nodes means that a theoretical adversary of this kind is not the network's greatest threat. "No adversary is truly global, but no adversary needs to be truly global," he says. "Eavesdropping on the entire Internet is a several-billion-dollar problem. Running a few computers to eavesdrop on a lot of traffic, a selective denial of service attack to drive traffic to your computers, that's like a tens-of-thousands-of-dollars problem." At the most basic level, an attacker who runs two poisoned Tor nodes—one entry, one exit—is able to analyse traffic and thereby identify the tiny, unlucky percentage of users whose circuit happened to cross both of those nodes.
At present the Tor network offers, out of a total of around 7,000 relays, around 2,000 guard (entry) nodes and around 1,000 exit nodes.
So the odds of such an event happening are one in two million (1/2000 x 1/1000), give or take. But, as Bryan Ford, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), who leads the Decentralised/Distributed Systems (DeDiS) Lab, explains: "If the attacker can add enough entry and exit relays to represent, say, 10 percent of Tor's total entry-relay and exit-relay bandwidth respectively, then suddenly the attacker is able to de-anonymise about one percent of all Tor circuits via this kind of traffic analysis (10 percent x 10 percent)." "Given that normal Web-browsing activity tends to open many Tor circuits concurrently (to different remote websites and HTTP servers) and over time (as you browse many different sites)," he adds, "this means that if you do any significant amount of Web browsing activity over Tor, and eventually open hundreds of different circuits over time, you can be virtually certain that such a poisoned-relay attacker will trivially be able to de-anonymise at least one of your Tor circuits." For a dissident or journalist worried about a visit from the secret police, de-anonymisation could mean arrest, torture, or death. As a result, these known weaknesses have prompted academic research into how Tor could be strengthened or even replaced by some new anonymity system.
The priority for most researchers has been to find better ways to prevent traffic analysis. While a new anonymity system might be equally vulnerable to adversaries running poisoned nodes, better defences against traffic analysis would make those compromised relays much less useful and significantly raise the cost of de-anonymising users. The biggest hurdle? Despite the caveats mentioned here, Tor remains one of the better solutions for online anonymity, supported and maintained by a strong community of developers and volunteers.
Deploying and scaling something better than Tor in a real-world, non-academic environment is no small feat. What Tor does really well Tor was designed as a general-purpose anonymity network optimised for low-latency, TCP-only traffic. Web browsing was, and remains, the most important use case, as evidenced by the popularity of the Tor Browser Bundle.
This popularity has created a large anonymity set in which to hide—the more people who use Tor, the more difficult it is to passively identify any particular user. But that design comes at a cost. Web browsing requires low enough latency to be usable.
The longer it takes for a webpage to load, the fewer the users who will tolerate the delay.
In order to ensure that Web browsing is fast enough, Tor sacrifices some anonymity for usability and to cover traffic.
Better to offer strong anonymity that many people will use than perfect anonymity that's too slow for most people's purposes, Tor's designers reasoned. "There are plenty of places where if you're willing to trade off for more anonymity with higher latency and bandwidth you'd wind up with different designs," Mathewson says. "Something in that space is pretty promising.
The biggest open question in that space is, 'what is the sweet spot?' "Is chat still acceptable when we get into 20 seconds of delay?" he asks. "Is e-mail acceptable with a five-minute delay? How many users are willing to use that kind of a system?" Mathewson says he's excited by some of the anonymity systems emerging today but cautions that they are all still at the academic research phase and not yet ready for end users to download and use. Ford agrees: "The problem is taking the next big step beyond Tor. We've gotten to the point where we know significantly more secure is possible, but there's still a lot of development work to make it really usable." Can Tor be replaced? After interviewing numerous leading anonymity researchers for this article, one thing becomes clear: Tor is not going away any time soon.
The most probable future we face is a world in which Tor continues to offer a good-but-not-perfect, general-purpose anonymity system, while new anonymity networks arrive offering stronger anonymity optimised for particular use-cases, like anonymous messaging, anonymous filesharing, anonymous microblogging, and anonymous voice-over-IP. Nor is the Tor Project standing still.
Tor today is very different from the first public release more than a decade ago, Mathewson is quick to point out.
That evolution will continue. "It's been my sense for ages that the Tor we use in five years will look very different from the Tor we use today," he says. "Whether that's still called Tor or not is largely a question of who builds and deploys it first. We are not stepping back from innovation.
I want better solutions than we have today that are easier to use and protect people's privacy." The following five projects are breaking new ground in developing stronger anonymity systems. Here's a rundown of the big ideas in this space, the current status of each project, and speculation from the researchers about when we might expect to see real-world deployment. Herd: Signal without the metadata The twin Aqua/Herd projects look closest to real-world deployment, so let's start there.
Aqua, short for "Anonymous Quanta," is an anonymous file-sharing network design. Herd, based on Aqua, and with similar anonymity properties, is an anonymous voice-over-IP network design—"Signal without the metadata," as its project leader Stevens Le Blond, a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Germany, explains to Ars. Le Blond reports that his team has implemented a working Herd prototype at MPI-SWS, and together with their colleagues from Northeastern University in the United States, have just raised half-a-million dollars from the US National Science Foundation to deploy Herd, Aqua, and other anonymity systems over the next three years. With funding in hand, Le Blond hopes to see the first Herd nodes online and ready for users in 2017. Both Herd and Aqua work by padding traffic with "chaff"—random noise that makes a user's traffic indistinguishable from any other user on the network. Unlike Tor, which can, with difficulty, be used for VoIP in a CB-radio kind of way, Herd promises usable, secure, anonymous VoIP calls. "Aqua and Herd attempt to reconcile efficiency and anonymity by designing, implementing, and deploying anonymity networks which provide low latency and/or high bandwidth without sacrificing anonymity," Le Blond says. According to Ford, the Herd/Aqua projects offer the most incremental advances in anonymity technology. "It's not inconceivable that something like Aqua or Herd could replace Tor," he says. Vuvuzela/Alpenhorn: Metadata-free chat Vuvuzela, named after the buzzy horn common at soccer matches in Africa and Latin America, and its second iteration, Alpenhorn, aim to offer anonymous, metadata-free chat.
The best available metadata-free chat application today is Ricochet, while the abandoned Pond project also looked promising for a while.
Alpenhorn, however, will offer stronger privacy guarantees, according to project leader David Lazar. "Pond and Ricochet rely on Tor, which is vulnerable to traffic-analysis attacks," Lazar says. "Vuvuzela is a new design that protects against traffic analysis and has formalised privacy guarantees." Enlarge / How the Vuvuzela/Alpenhorn creators see their work compared to other anonymity projects. "Our experiments show that Vuvuzela and Alpenhorn can scale to millions of users," he adds, "and we're currently working on deploying a public beta." Developed by a team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Vuvuzela's approach to anonymous chat is to encrypt the metadata that it can, add noise to the metadata that it can't, and use differential privacy to analyse how much anonymity this noise provides. Alpenhorn checks in at just over 3,000 lines of Go.
At scale, the network promises latency of ~37 seconds per message, assuming around a million simultaneous users, with a throughput of 60,000 messages per second. Noise? Or recipe-sharing with Grandma? Who can tell? The Alpenhorn team will present their research at the 2016 Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) in November. "We are currently working on the final version of the Alpenhorn paper and on making the Vuvuzela and Alpenhorn code ready for production," Lazar says. "In the meantime, users can sign up to our e-mail list for updates on our progress." Dissent: The strongest-available anonymity With strong anonymity guarantees come trade-offs in latency and bandwidth.
Bryan Ford's Dissent Project made a bit of a splash a few years ago by pushing the slider to 11 on the anonymity scale.
Dissent's proof-of-concept offers cryptographically provable anonymity—but at a high cost in terms of scalability and usability. Unlike Tor's onion-routing model, Dissent is based on a dining cryptographers algorithm, or "DC-net." Combined with a verifiable-shuffle algorithm, Dissent offers the most anonymous design currently under investigation by researchers. Dissent's high latency and low bandwidth make it most suitable for, well, dissent.
The project's optimal use-case is one-to-many broadcasting that does not require real-time interaction, such as blogging, microblogging (anonymous Twitter, anyone?), or even IRC. DC-nets work because when one client wishes to broadcast a message, all other clients on the network must broadcast a message of the same size.
This creates a large bandwidth-overhead, and at present Dissent only scales to a few thousand users—although Ford says his team is working on improving the efficiency of the algorithm. Dissent also has the potential to offer what Ford calls "PriFi"—integrated into a corporate or campus WiFi network, the platform could offer provably anonymous Web browsing within that set of users.
A passive observer would know someone on campus was viewing a certain website, for example, but they would not be able to identify which user it was. PriFi traffic connecting to the Tor network would offer even stronger anonymity. The Dissent team is in the process of redesigning Dissent and rewriting it in Go, and some of the new components, Ford says, are available on Github, but not yet ready as part of a complete system. "Unfortunately none of this code is really ready for users who want a full 'anonymity system' to play with," Ford says, "but strong hacker-types who might want to help us further develop the pieces and/or help us put them together into usable applications are of course welcome to try them and get in touch." Dissent has become something of a touchstone among anonymity researchers.
The following two projects were both inspired, in part, by Dissent and a desire to make a more efficient anonymity system while still retaining much of Dissent's strength. Riffle: Anonymous filesharing Like Aqua, Riffle's main use-case is anonymous filesharing.
Contrary to some reports that its new anonymity system could replace Tor, Riffle would, if successfully deployed, not only complement Tor, but perhaps even make it faster by giving users sharing large files a more secure alternative. "[Riffle is] not a replacement for Tor but complementary to Tor," says Albert Kwon, a graduate student at MIT and the project's lead researcher. "We have a very different goal. Our goal is to provide the strongest level of practical anonymity we could think of." Kwon's interest in developing anonymous filesharing has nothing to do with enabling copyright infringement, he explains, but rather a desire to help journalists anonymously share large files and to make it easier for whistleblowers to submit large document sets to publishers. Over Tor, "sending a very large file in a very short period of time is drastically different from Web browsing," he says, "and much easier to fingerprint in that sense.
I'd like to set up a filesharing group that wants to be anonymous; a lot of journalists are willing to have something like this running." Riffle was inspired by the Dissent project and, like Dissent, uses a verifiable shuffle algorithm (hence the name "Riffle"), but forgoes the DC-net crypto primitive in order to make the network more efficient.
It could also be used for anonymous microblogging, Kwon says, though as an academic prototype, it is not usable by a "regular person." He plans to spend the next semester building a public alpha release. Riposte: An anonymous Twitter Like Riffle, Riposte was inspired by Dissent, but the design has been fine-tuned for one specific use-case: microblogging. "This is an example of where, if you're willing to tailor your system design to an application, you can get much better performance," says Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, a graduate student at Stanford's Applied Crypto Group and Riposte's lead researcher. "You can't solve all the problems at the same time." Riposte maintains the strong anonymity properties of a DC-net, including resistance to both traffic analysis and to disruption attacks by malicious clients, but scales to millions of users.
The tradeoff, again, is much higher latency—but, Corrigan-Gibbs says, that may be acceptable for a Twitter-like service. "Low-latency anonymity is inherently problematic when you're looking at an adversary that is able to see large parts of—or the interesting parts of—the network," he explains. Riposte currently exists as an academic prototype.
Corrigan-Gibbs says the team is working on improving the system's anonymity and security properties. "My hope," he tells Ars, "is to get some of the ideas from Riposte (if not the code itself) integrated into existing communication platforms for privacy-sensitive users." The Riposte team has no plans to deploy the network on its own, at least for now. "I come up with design ideas and prototype the system to show that it works," he explains. "And it takes a whole 'nother set of important skills to build something.
The Tor Project is very impressive to keep this massive distributed system running ... and with relatively little funding." From research to production The gap between academia and real-world deployment poses a challenge for researchers wanting to scale their next-gen anonymity prototype in production.
Academics in search of tenure face an incentive structure that rewards publishing new ideas and proofs-of-concept—not building software, attracting users, and scaling adoption. And, as the researchers themselves acknowledge, the skillset required to deploy software at scale is unrelated to their core research background. "Most of the next-generation anonymity work is coming from the research community, which is not normally very good at producing widely usable products," Ford says. "In my group at EPFL I'm trying to change that, at least locally." Mathewson is sympathetic.
Tor began as a research paper that he says he expected to deploy for a few years before handing over to someone else. More than 10 years later, the Tor Project has developed deep experience in maintaining a network that, for many dissidents, is critical infrastructure when it's the only barrier between a seditious tweet or blog post and a visit by the secret police. His counsel to researchers is this: eat your own dog food. "I've said this publicly before; for me the biggest achievement, the thing I'm waiting to hear from every one of these research groups is, 'not only did we design it, and used it for testing, but we're actually using it for our own communications in the lab,'" Mathewson says. "The two best choices we made when we started out were that we aimed to deploy and share it with the world as soon as we could." "What you learn about software from running it is like what you learn from food by tasting it," he explains. "You can't be a cook who makes recipes and never tastes them. You can't actually know whether you've made a working solution for humans unless you give it to humans, including yourself." Without anonymity, democracy crumbles Today, three years post-Snowden, strong encryption has grown increasingly ubiquitous, channelling more Web traffic than ever before and enabling end-to-end secure communication for a billion WhatsApp and Signal users. "But the unfortunate thing is that encryption can only help you so much when metadata leaks who you're talking to, when you're talking to them, and even suggests what you're talking to them about," Chris Soghoian, the principal technologist at the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), tells Ars. "We desperately need metadata protection because the kinds of users who need privacy the most—whether it's journalists, or activists, or LGBT teens in the closet—merely revealing who you're talking to can be enough to sink you," he says. "And if people don't feel free to communicate, feel free to read and to organise and to speak, then democracy crumbles." JM Porup is a freelance cybersecurity reporter who lives in Toronto. When he dies his epitaph will simply read "assume breach." You can find him on Twitter at @toholdaquill. This post originated on Ars Technica UK
To get its message out, GTP has worked with journalists at Re/Code and The Intercept, which have run stories about Google's many visits to the White House, the prevalence of ex-Googlers in the US Digital Service, and other links.What wasn't known, until today, is who was paying the bills for research by the "nonprofit watchdog" group. "The folks running the Google Transparency Project won't say who is paying for it, which is odd for a group devoted to transparency," noted Fortune's Jeff John Roberts, one of many journalists who the group reached out to in April. Today, Roberts has published a followup, confirming that based on a tip, he found at least one funder—Oracle.
That's the same company that lost a major copyright trial to Google and continues to spar with the search giant in court. "Oracle is absolutely a contributor (one of many) to the Transparency Project.
This is important information for the public to know.
It is 100 percent public records and accurate," Oracle Senior VP Ken Glueck told Roberts. Other funders remain unknown. One big suspect, however, can be ruled out. Microsoft, whose lobbyists and lawyers have clashed with Google on many occasions, told Roberts that it is not part of the group. Is it a big deal? We're better off with the information being out there. Like Roberts, I agree that "throwing light on lobbying conducted by Google (or any other big company) is a good thing." However, it also seems like the source of the information should be made clear, especially for a group that's so focused on investigations against a particular company.
GTP's research has led to a lot of news stories—many of them around the time of this year's Oracle v.
Google trial—none of which reported that the Oracle is paying, at least in part, for the Google investigations. The Google Transparency Project is part of a larger organization called the Campaign for Accountability, an organization that says its goal is to use "research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose how decisions made behind the doors of corporate boardrooms and government offices impact Americans' lives." It also works on issues like anti-LGBT discrimination and environmental protection.


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Are we a nation of dog lovers or are we more partial to a cuddle with our cat? As National Pet Month gets into full swing, we're asking are you team paw or team claw?
Your favourite is a friend of the feline variety. Your moggy gives you all the love and affection you need (and doesn't need walkies)!
You're partial to a pooch, and who can blame you? Those cuddly yet often mischievous mutts are full of fun and affection.
Who will come out top: team paw or team claw?
Dog quotes account for 79% of all pet insurance enquiries on our site", suggesting that insurance is more of a concern for those with canine companions. In fact, new statistics released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI), suggests that only 1 in 7 cat owners are thought to have insurance for their moggy.
It is thought that just 3.9 million dogs and cats are currently covered by insurance, leaving 13 million four-legged friends without cover. And whilst 1 in 4 of the 9 million dog owners in the UK seek out pet insurance, just 1 in 7 of the 7.9 million cat owners do the same. Does that mean dog lovers care more about their pooch? Or are you equally affectionate about your feline friend?
Team paw
According to our data, those looking to insure pedigrees account for 66.7% of all dog insurance enquires. Whilst the average cost of insuring a pedigree is currently just £48.92 per year, this varies wildly depending on what breed you've brought home. In the last 6 months, the most expensive breed quoted for onsite (by some margin) is the Cane Corso, who costs on average a breath-taking £770 a year to insure! Other breeds that will set you back a pretty penny include the Northern Inuit which is £173.66 on average to insure and the Shar Pei which could cost £163.52 to cover.
Team claw
In comparison, just 11.4% of all cat enquiries are for those who would like to insure pedigrees. Instead, cross-breeds make up the majority of all cat quotes conducted onsite. Insurance doesn't differ much between the two categories though; whilst the average price of annual pet insurance for pedigrees is £41.51, it's only marginally cheaper to insure a cross-breed at £39.62. Some of the most expensive pedigrees to insure include the Norwegian Forest Cat which costs on average £49.65 to insure, followed by the Burmese which costs £48.91 and the Sphynx which comes in at £48.82.
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So where in the UK are all the pet lovers residing? Well, it would seem pets are most popular in the South East as 18.6% of cat queries and 15.4% of dog queries come from that region. Equally keen are those in East Anglia and the North West who take the second and third spot for both cat and dog queries.
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The roles are reversed for those living up in the Highlands, as Scotland accounts for 9.1% of dog quotes but just 7.2% of cat quotes, suggesting dogs may be the preferred choice of pets for those with a little more countryside to explore.
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As any new pet owner will know, there's a lot of pressure in picking a name. Whilst some of you are happy to get caught trying to coax Bombastic Betty out of a tree or bellow "Here Snugglepuff" across a playing field (and yes these are genuinely names people have quoted for onsite), most of us are happy with a name that's relatively easy to roll of that tongue.
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Five takeaways from Celtics' preseason game No. 1
The Celtics dropped their preseason opener Monday night against the Toronto Raptors, 97-89, at TD Garden. It was the first NBA game of any kind for rookie Celtics coach Brad Stevens and for more on his debut, here's our story in Tuesday's Globe.
That said, here are five takeaways you can enjoy with your morning coffee.
1. The Celtics are still mixing and matching on the lineup, trying to find solid pairings of players, but the plus-sized trio of Kelly Olynyk, Jared Sullinger and Gerald Wallace proved to be an intriguing combination of players, as Stevens foreshadowed before the game.
Wallace, a swingman who roams the wing, led the Celtics with 16 points; Sullinger, a big-bodied-but-undersized power forward who has a soft touch around the basket, added 14; and Olynyk, a rookie 7-footer from Gonzaga whose passing and shooting will probably keep him more on the perimeter this season, added 4 points and a team-high 5 assists.
When they played in concert, their differing styles of play meshed together well, as Sullinger could play down low while Wallace and Olynyk played somewhere on the perimeter to within 15 feet or so. Wallace and Olynyk are good enough shooters that defenses can't sag off and crowd the paint, which gives Sullinger some room.
"I love playing with those guys," Wallace said. "Those are two bigs that spread the floor, they are able to cut, and both of them are great passers, so they complement me because they open up the floor for me to drive and they are able to make passes in the paint."
Their quick passing was effective, in part because all three played unselfishly, as Sullinger harped on after the game.
"I mean, honestly, everybody is very unselfish," he said. "They're just always moving, Kelly and Gerald … They're constantly moving and they're open, so it's easy to find them."
Olynyk didn't light it up on the offensive end in his first NBA game, but Stevens said the rookie's scoring will come along.
"There's probably a little bit of jitters for him too, but he's a good player and his ability to make plays passing the ball makes others better," Stevens said.
Olynyk did admit to a bit of nerves after the game.
"I guess there are a little nerves every time you make the next step, but that goes away once you realize it's just a game of basketball again," he said. "You know you're playing the same thing; the hoops are still 10 feet, the free-throw line's 15. And you know the vets are real good at calming me down, making sure you're all right out there, and just go with the flow."
2. On the offensive end, Stevens kept encouraging his players to move faster, even motioning from the sidelines that they needed to pick up the pace.
The players should get the hang of that in time, but it's worth noting that Kris Humphries said he and Jeff Green ran sprints on the treadmill after the game to help sharpen them up, conditioning-wise.
But overall on offense, the Celtics shared the ball well, earning 25 assists on 33 field goals.
"That's pretty good," Stevens said. "I like that. That's a good place to start. If we can keep moving the ball like that, again, I think we'll knock down a few more of those shots. I think one of the strengths of our team in the first seven days has been an unselfish nature playing the game."
Ah, unselfish. That word was tossed around a lot in postgame interviews, including by Avery Bradley, who filled in at the point guard spot for Rajon Rondo, a role Bradley will be playing for a while while Rondo (knee) is sidelined.
"My job is to make everything else easier on both ends of the floor," Bradley said. "I'm going to try to do that and continue to improve and I know our team is going to continue to improve. I feel like we're an unselfish team and we move the ball well and if we continue to do that, I feel like it will be hard for teams to guard us."
In terms of how Bradley performed, Stevens said that the fourth-year guard, who had three assists and three turnovers, was solid overall. But Stevens added that it's hard to judge his assist totals. "I thought he made a lot of nice plays that led to the next pass," Stevens said.
3. Monday's tilt was Jeff Green's first as "The Guy," also known as the player typically tabbed to lead his team in scoring most every night. Green struggled, scoring 6 points on 2-of-7 shooting from the floor, and said he noticed how the defense was focusing on him.
"All that attention is coming my way, but my shot just wasn't falling," he said.
Sure, it's the first game – the first of many – but it will be interesting to see how Green handles that attention. Before, he only received part of it, as Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett usually collected more focus from opposing defenses. Now, the bulk of it is on Green.
Green said he also wants to channel Garnett's advice and be an (expletive).
"It's coming," Green said. "I didn't bring it (Monday), obviously, the way I played. It's coming. It's coming."
4. He's known as "Crash" and he played as hard as his nickname indicated.
"The one thing I've learned about Gerald Wallace in my short time knowing him is he's going to give it everything he has, regardless of whether it's in practice, an exhibition game, or a regular season game," Stevens said. "That guy plays hard. And it'll be good — I think that sets a really good tone for our team."
That appeared to be the case, according to Wallace's teammates.
"Gerald is kind of a quiet guy, but he goes so hard, man," Bradley said. "All you can do is respect him. It rubs off on me and I want to go out there and play hard for him."
Added Kris Humphries, Wallace's teammate in Brooklyn and now in Boston, "The funny thing about Gerald, in life he moves around so slow. So slow. But when he gets on the court, he turns it up. He's a guy that can get layups and get shots. He knocked down shots. He really looked good offensively."
Wallace, who hit 6 of his 10 shots, said he still feels a step or two behind defensively. But he also said "I'm playing more freely now" as compared to his time in Brooklyn, where All-Stars Joe Johnson, Deron Williams and Brook Lopez ate up a lot of the shots and minutes.
Let's not forget that Wallace is entering his 13th NBA season and he's doing it on a rebuilding team with a rookie coach – less than ideal circumstances for a player at this stage of his career. (He pointed all this out on Media Day.)
But it appears that Crash is only wired to play one way, and that alone should have a positive effect on a team with many young players.
5.The Celtics had six rebounds in the first half. That's not a typo. By the end of the game, they were out-rebounded, 46-26, and that wasn't too bad considering how lopsided that figure was earlier in the game.
In fact, given how the Celtics were smashed on the glass, it's surprising that the final margin was single-digits when it could've been a lot worse.
It's early, of course, but the main problem is that the Celtics are undersized, with only one true center – 7-footer Vitor Faverani, who, by the way, is a 25-year-old Brazilian rookie who was last playing in Spain and will need some time to adjust to the NBA game.
"But we have to become a better rebounding team, and that's not just for our bigs, it means guard pursuit," Stevens said.
The Celtics could attribute some of their rebounding awfulness to the fact that the Raptors shot the ball well (52 percent from the floor) and had so many turnovers (25), which didn't leave too many rebounds to be grabbed. Still, the Celtics need to improve in that area.
"We've got to continue to help out when guys are driving and build that wall on the strong-side and stop the ball and fan out from there and have each other's backs," Humphries said.
Perhaps Wallace put it best:
"That's one of the main things we realized (Monday) with this team, that we're small at that forward/center spots, and we have to get in there as guards and help those guys out and get some of those long rebounds, take some of the 50/50 balls and see if we can come up with those or help them box out and help them rebound."


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Outsourcing contact centre leader says proactive tech delivering real benefits to its tier one clients
Dublin & Birmingham, 24 January 2017 – Customer engagement services leader VoiceSage is pleased to announce that Capita Customer Management, a leader in the UK outsourced customer management services market, says its technology is helping contact centre clients in multiple sectors improve customer service.
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The main business drivers of using VoiceSage's proactive engagement methods for Cheng and his team are to move customer outreach from failure demands ('Why hasn't my delivery happened?') to value demands ('I'd like to order more goods from you').
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The 20-year-old defender has agreed a six-month loan deal with the Roots Hall outfit.
With new signing Bakari Sagna adding to Arsene Wenger's options at full back, Gilbert has again been allowed to get first-team experience elsewhere.
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