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Excel Data Forensics

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:36:17 +0000

In this detailed article about academic plagiarism are some interesting details about how to do data forensics on Excel files. It really needs the graphics to understand, so see the description at the link. (And, yes, an author of a paper on dishonesty...

Serverless Architecture for a Structured Data Mining Solution

Uri Rotem — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:21:50 +0000

Many businesses have an essential need for structured data stored in their own database for business operations and offerings. For example, a company that produces electronics may want to store a structured dataset of parts. This requires the following properties: color, weight, connector type, and more. This data may already be available from external sources. […]

Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:58:33 +0000

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis:

The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual. A growing market of data brokers that collect and sell data from countless apps has made it so that anyone with a bit of cash and effort can figure out which phone in a so-called anonymized dataset belongs to a target, and abuse that information...