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Estimating the Gini coefficient of M5S's Rousseau's commentaries

The goal of this preliminary report is to look at the proposals and comments on the Rousseau platform and to try to estimate the distribution of comments, using only data from Lorenzo Mosca's 2018 article.

Auteur·ices, relecteur·ices : redoublons de prudence face aux effets de modes technologiques

Dans un article paru dans Amplitude du droit le 21 juin 2022, le juriste Serge Surin élabore une défense du vote électronique reposant sur la chaîne de blocs (CDB) ou blockchain. Cet article commet de nombreuses erreurs méthodologiques, notamment …

Vision: Minimalist approaches to enforce privacy by design in surveys

Public institutions and private companies both frequently rely on user surveys for a variety of assessments (e.g. equality issues or quality of work environment). However, many such surveys struggle to garner suffi cient responses, especially when …

Boardroom Voting: Practical Verifiable Voting with Ballot Privacy Using Low-Tech Cryptography in a Single Room

A _boardroom election_ is an election that takes place in a single room --- the boardroom --- in which all voters can see and hear each other. We present the first practical protocol for boardroom elections with ballot privacy and voter verifiability …

Client-side hashing for efficient typo-tolerant password checkers

Credential leaks still happen with regular frequency, and show evidence that, despite decades of warnings, password hashing is still not correctly implemented in practice. The common practice today, inherited from previous but obsolete constraints, …

'Set up son? Scam set, asserts Bob': Semi-Automatic Generation of Bilingual Palindromes

We analyse the problem of composing bilingual palindromes, for which the only high-quality example known is more than 150 years old. We formalise the problem and introduce multiple partial solutions for computer-assisted palindrome composition, as …

A travelling crip’s temporal expenses

The following temporal expenses list comes exclusively from the author's experience as a crip academic based in France but travelling around the world with their mobility scooter. Everything mentioned happened in recent years and only includes the …

Du hachage côté client pour l'authentification par mot de passe

Malgré des décennies d'analyses et d'avertissements au sein de la communauté académique, les grands fournisseurs de service n'appliquent correctement le hachage des mots de passe que très rarement, comme en témoignent les fuites régulières de leurs …

What's in a name, a gender, a crip?

“As far as I can remember, I have always known I was a man”. “One day it hit me and it just clicked, and I realised that I was transgender”. Those sentences together make up most of the commonly heard experiences of realising one is trans. They are …

Where are the missing trans crips?

The interactions between transidentity, impairment, and disability have been studied extensively in the last two decades, mostly thanks to innovative ideas and reflections from the neurodivergent communities, and often outside of academic circles. …