This would work perfectly if it weren’t for all the humans: Two factor authentication in late modern societies

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Watters ◽  
Patrick Scolyer-Gray ◽  
A.S.M. Kayes ◽  
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Public Forum ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Ict System ◽  
Short Messaging Services ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Late Modern

Late modern societies are now dependent on innumerable digitally networked technologies, yet there are intractable incongruencies between the technologies that we develop, and the corresponding technological literacies of users. This disjuncture has greatly increased the scope and scale of the risks to which globalized publics are exposed. With public cybersecurity literacies necessarily in decline as a result of the techno-social dynamism of “liquid modernity”, we now face an immense and exponentially growing matrix of cyberthreats and vulnerabilities, of which many carry potentially catastrophic consequences. Our interrogation of two-factor authentication systems, popularly implemented through short messaging services (SMSs), is demonstrative of vulnerabilities that continue to emerge as a result of widespread and entrenched disjunctures between the design of contemporary ICT systems, and the various flawed assumptions that undergird their implementation. We examined 400 authentication messages that were automatically posted to a public forum by Web sites commonly used to receive SMS authentication tokens on behalf of users. We found that 76.5 percent of those messages included the name of the application for which the message was intended: in so doing, over three quarters of our sample risked compromising their accounts. Occasionally, we even observed usernames and passwords posted together. The socio-technical implications of our findings for ICT system design in today’s globalized late modern societies are discussed.

Quantum annealing for ICT system design automation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Kuroda ◽  
Takuya Kuwahara ◽  
Kouki Yonaga ◽  
Takao Osaki ◽  
Masamichi J. Miyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Design Automation ◽  
Quantum Annealing ◽  
Ict System

The electoral implications of politically irrelevant cues under demanding electoral systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Taishi Muraoka
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Visual Cue ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
To Receive

AbstractCognitively demanding electoral systems increase the chance that voters make their choices based on politically irrelevant cues. To illustrate this argument, I analyze the effect of candidate name complexity—a visual cue that contains no politically meaningful information—in Japan, where voters need to write their preferred candidate's name on a blank ballot paper. I find that when electoral systems require voters to weigh a large number of candidates and simultaneously reduce the usefulness of partisan cues, candidates with more complex names tend to receive lower vote shares. By contrast, under less cognitively demanding systems, candidate name complexity has no effect on election outcomes. These findings have important implications for the debate on the “best” electoral system design.

scholarly journals Wet loads – a phenomenon or by design?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Heavey
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Production Time ◽  
Moist Heat ◽  
Biotech Industry ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Worth Reading ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Over 40 Years

Having been involved in moist heat sterilization and autoclaves for over 40 years it fascinates me that there still exists in our industry confusion and misunderstanding in relation to wet loads. I have therefore decided to write this short story to highlight the fact that, despite the occasional (or should we say frequent) denial within our industry of the existence of wet loads, they do actually occur in relation to porous/hardware loads autoclaved within the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. In fact, I would like to receive a pound for every time I have been asked the question, “Alan, when is wet, wet?” This story is not to discuss whether loads should be wet or dry, but rather to discuss how to avoid the manifestation of a wet load in the first place by effective system design and good practice. And to save production time. Isn’t that worth reading about? So, where to start? I would suggest that like all good stories, we should start at the beginning…….

The Analysis of Portals Considering Mobile Clients

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-310
Author(s):  
Gergely Kocsis ◽  
◽  
Péter Ekler ◽  
István Albert
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Web Analytics ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Performance Bottlenecks ◽  
System Failures ◽  
Business Analysis ◽  
Mobile Clients

Web analytics are used to retrieve anonymous information about users. We focus here on websites that support mobile clients. This information is important from the perspective of business analysis as web analytics help in making appropriate design decisions. Popular web sites may handle several million page views a day, so poor system design – even that related only to collecting statistics on user behavior – may produce performance bottlenecks or even system failures. This paper presents measurements based on a userdata database for a large mobile supported website and a model used when designing such sites.

scholarly journals Wherever I Drop Anchor

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firouz Gaini
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Physical Mobility ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Late Modern

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">This paper investigates the connection between young people’s local identities and future perspectives regarding physical mobility and home with Zygmunt Bauman’s concepts of ‘liquid modernity’ and ‘anchor’ as theoretical framework. 40 semi-structured interviews with eight graders from two different communities provide the empirical setting for discussions and analyses. The results paint a clear picture of young islanders critically negotiating their ‘glocal’ identities as independent ‘bricoleurs’ in a complex late modern world. Their individual priorities and strategies support the use of the maritime metaphor of ‘anchoring’ in the quest for a better understanding of identity formation today. Young people’s identities and values, the paper concludes, cannot be unveiled without strong attention to local contexts and glocal processes.</span></p>

scholarly journals Post-secular esotericism? Some reflections on the transformation of esotericism

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 50-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kennet Granholm
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Western Esotericism ◽  
Late Modern

In the last fifteen years the study of Western esotericism has become an academic discipline in its own right. The vast majority of research conducted within the field is focused on older, historical developments, with recent expressions of esotericism receiving far less attention. This has a bearing on the conceptual and methodological tools used in the field as well. The dominant definition of Western esotericism developed by Antoine Faivre might not be entirely suitable when looking at its contemporary expressions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries Western societies have undergone major processes of transform­ation, resulting in what many sociologists variously term late modern­ity, liquid modernity, post-modernity, high modernity (and so forth). Naturally, these transformations affect esoteric spiritualities as well. In this article the author discusses late modern societal transformation and relates this to Western esotericism.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE RUSSIAN CHART OF ACCOUNTS IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
O. A. Ageeva
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
International Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Reporting Standards ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
To Receive

The directions of improving the Russian chart of accounts in order to align it with the International Financial Reporting Standards' requirements and ensure its usability in the digital economy for reports online preparing at the official web-sites of companies, using the cloud technologies have been considered. The proposed method of preparing online reporting assumes that accounting entries will be posted on the lines of financial statements after each transaction occurs, which will enable the users to receive the information about changes in the financial statements immediately. Attention has been paid to the issues of financial statements elements estimates regulation directly by changing the accounting plan, but not by counter accounts. The necessity of abandoning the concept of “additional capital” that does not exist in international practice and an account of the same name in the Russian chart of accounts and replacing it with separate accounts to account for share premium and revaluation reserve has been substantiated.

scholarly journals Digital Forensics System Using PLC for Inter-Floor Noise Measurement: Detailing PLC-Based Android Solution Replacing CCTV-based Solution

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choo ◽  
Huh
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Civil Court ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Objective Evidence ◽  
To Receive

The neighborly dispute arising from the inter-floor noises has been increasing for the past two decades in Korean apartments or multi-unit houses sometimes leading to a serious consequence. Although there have been some attempts to resolve such a dispute, one of the underlying problems has to be solved first. That is, in addition to identifying the cause for the noise, it is necessary to prove who has actually suffered from the noise itself. Now that many of such a dispute is being settled at the civil court, producing objective evidence has become important. Therefore, digital forensics which is being widely used at the crime scenes by the police or other anti-crime organizations to collect evidences scientifically has begun to receive attention for the purpose of measuring noise levels. This technique has evolved in recent years following the rapid development in IT and ICT technologies but its problem is that such a technique has to be performed by the experts due to its complicated system so that those who need to measure the noise level usually outsource this work spending quite a sum. Thus, this study introduces a digital forensic system design which allows the user to effectively measure the inter-floor or neighborly noises directly and conveniently without much cost. The relevant system elements have been implemented with Java Android.

scholarly journals Cloud System Design using AMQP Protocol for Smart Devices System Applications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trio Adiono ◽  
Rahmat Muttaqin ◽  
Renitia Murti Rahayu ◽  
Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Cloud System ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Connection Problem ◽  
System P ◽  
Transmission Schedule ◽  
To Receive

In this publication, we propose a cloud system design for internet-of-things (IoT) based smart devices system using AMQP protocol and RabbitMQ server. Using this proposed system, every connected device in smart devices system can be controlled remotely by mobile user, as long as internet connection is provided. Furthermore, if the internet connection between cloud and smart devices system is unstable or even off in a while, the cloud system is able to save the data to RabbitMQ server and send them when the internet connection stable again. In order to receive and store the data sent by user or smart devices system’s gateway, the cloud system utilizes exchange which is created in the server. If the data have reached the server, they will be stored and passed to exchange for next transmission. These data are bound with certain queue in order to organize the transmission schedule. By using such mechanism, the proposed system can overcome the internet connection problem without losing any data and provide a reliable cloud system.

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