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Lukasz Olejnik

I write about security, privacy, Web, technology and tech policy matters.

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01 May 2022 on cyber risk, cyberwarfare, research

Transparency of cyber capabilities and US building Stuxnets 2/3/4?

Is the US building Stuxnet 2/3? Cyber tools that can act behind isolated (even air-gapped) networks to cause physical destruction, sometimes called “cyber weapons”, a generalised term, not exactly justified considering how such tools work (but in simplified cases, it is sometimes used). This was the functionality of Stuxnet…

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25 Jan 2022 on cybersecurity, phishing, research

Solving phishing is not simple - can anti-phishing training make it even worse?

Can phishing precautions and training cause harm? It turns out this may be true in many cases. Phishing is the act of gaining a victim's confidence to convince them to engage in self-harming activities, for example leading to self-hacking their systems, parting with money, or data. Or of their peers,…

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11 Oct 2021 on technology policy, standardisation, standards, policy, research

Designing technologies with Values? Possibility - Necessity - and European story.

Should technology be based on some set of moral values? Actually, technology is always based on some set of values. There is no denying that this or another way, technology is a vehicle for some kind of values. Whether these are capitalist, ordoliberal, digital Leninism, some form of digital sovereignty,…

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23 Feb 2021 on research, privacy, web browser, web, w3c, consent, data breach, gdpr

Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?

User tracking technologies are ubiquitous on the web. In recent times web browsers try to fight abuses. This led to an arms race where new tracking and anti-tracking measures are being developed. The use of one of such evasion techniques, the CNAME cloaking technique is recently quickly gaining popularity. Our…

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30 Nov 2020 on cookies, foresight, privacy, privacy engineering, research, w3c, web, web browser

Are we reaching privacy preserving digital advertising? Historical view

We may be in the middle of a  process of redesigning how the web economy functions. Considerations include web advertisements. Such works involve many actors. Some big platforms. Some web browser vendors. Some ads companies, with a modest list of analysts or researchers keeping a close eye. I believe it’…

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