Welcome to my weekly letter, where I share a few noteworthy articles and my own commentary. Without further ado…
Weekly Read
- These Bendy Plastic Chips Fit in Unusual Places (Wired) – TL;DR – don’t get too hopeful yet… overall it’s still taking too much energy to render the performance of early 1980s processors. But one can dream… if one day there’s a way for us to capture and recycle all the plastics in our world, turn them into processors to play retro games from the 80s and 90s. I think that would be a good day đŸ˜€
- A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible (Wired) – bigger wafer to run bigger AI, which can design bigger chips on bigger wafer, then to run even bigger AI, which… (recursive calls until the birth of Skynet!)
- Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem (Wired) – this article focuses on the vulnerabilities incurred by misconfigured or badly implemented WebRTC features in real time communication apps, allowing ‘interaction-less’ bugs. A decent segue to the overall topic on how to avoid getting hacked…
- Refugees are buying groceries with iris scans. What could go wrong? (Protocol) – any technologies that require private information, such as fingerprints, or iris patterns, or facial expression etc to be centrally stored, can go wrong one way or another. A better solution here would be a decentralized model such as FIDO2 + biometric where private information is only stored and verified with the security chip on a FIDO key. The decentralized model is both secure and better privacy centric.
- What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear (Wired) – Zero trust is an architectural shift from the traditional perimeter network security model to the new identity-based model. I am personally excited about this topic as I have evident Google’s security incident 11 years ago referenced in this article, to FIDO/U2F/FIDO2’s evolution and adoption, to this year’s executive order 14028 which pushes government agencies to adapt zero-trust architecture and more modernized MFA.
That’s it for this week! Have a nice weekend!
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