zkLedger: privacy-preserving auditing for distributed ledgers

zkLedger: privacy-preserving auditing for distributed ledgers Narula et al., NSDI'18 Somewhat similarly to Solidus that we looked at late last year, zkLedger (presumably this stands for zero-knowledge Ledger) provides transaction privacy for participants in a permissioned blockchain setting. zkLedger also has an extra trick up its sleeve: it provides rich and fully privacy-preserving auditing capabilities. ... Continue Reading

Unsupervised anomaly detection via variational auto-encoder for seasonal KPIs in web applications

Unsupervised anomaly detection via variational auto-encoder for seasonal KPIs in web applications Xu et al., WWW'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site, or from the WWW 2018 proceedings page). Today’s paper examines the problem of ... Continue Reading

Algorithmic glass ceiling in social networks: the effects of social recommendations on network diversity

Algorithmic glass ceiling in social networks: the effects of social recommendations on network diversity Stoica et al., WWW'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site, or from the WWW 2018 proceedings page). Social networks were meant ... Continue Reading

SafeKeeper: protecting web passwords using trusted execution environments

SafeKeeper: protecting web passwords using trusted execution environments Krawiecka et al., WWW'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site, or from the WWW 2018 proceedings page). Today’s paper is all about password management for password protected ... Continue Reading

Semantics and complexity of GraphQL

Semantics and complexity of GraphQL Hartig & Pérez, WWW'18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site, or from the WWW 2018 proceedings page). GraphQL has been gathering good momentum since Facebook open sourced it in 2015, ... Continue Reading

Re-coding Black Mirror, Part V

This is the final part of our tour through the papers from the Re-coding Black Mirror workshop exploring future technology scenarios and their social and ethical implications. Towards trust-based decentralized ad-hoc social networks Koidl MMM: May I mine your mind? Sempreboni and Viganò (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, all of the papers ... Continue Reading