A False Sense of Privacy: Evaluating Textual Data Sanitization beyond Surface-Level Privacy Leakage

Whitepaper called A False Sense Of Privacy: Evaluating Textual Data Sanitization Beyond Surface-Level Privacy Leakage...

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Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. A vulnerability in versions prior to 11.5.0, 12.1.0, and 13.3.0 allows a sandboxed renderer to request a "thumbnail" image of an arbitrary file on the user's system. The thumbnail can potential...

Up (Ultimate Plumber) - Tool For Writing Linux Pipes With Instant Live Preview

up is the Ultimate Plumber , a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results. The main goal of the Ultimate Plumber is to help interactively and incrementally explore textual data in Linux, by making it easier to quickly build...

National Science Foundation Funds Purdue Data-Anonymization Project

A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods. The grant will help the...