{"id":4468,"date":"2024-01-13T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2024-01-13T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:25:11","slug":"shmoo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/shmoo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Shmoo #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shmoocon.org\/speakers\/#homophone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ewe Can&#8217;t Truss You&#8217;re Ears.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker from Totes-didn&#8217;t-used-to-do-evil company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focus on helping those of us who can&#8217;t see very well, or at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of discussion of masking things in unicode to try to lure people into visiting bad sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think there might be potential for doing things like confidence intervals, and requirements surrounding the levels required for browsing\/redirection.  So, the speech to text hit on a potentially-malicious return.  The speech-to-text might think it&#8217;s 100% confident that that&#8217;s what the user wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you look at the actual amount of traffic to that site, you can say, no, that weird unicode look-alike isn&#8217;t what the user was trying to get to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were you trying to get to Google, gee-ooh-ooh-gee-ell-eee-dot-com?  If yes, hit, &#8220;go.&#8221;  If not, hit &#8220;stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my own stuff, I&#8217;m teetering on the edge of legal-blindness.  I think last check, I was something like 20\/70 in my right (and previously non-dominant) eye, and uncorrectable to 20\/400 in my left.  I still can type, but some of the predictive things of things like SMS on my iPhone are very beneficial to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I&#8217;m not sure, I use a search engine (rarely the totes-didn&#8217;t-used-to-do-evil one the speaker worked for&#8230;.I would say that I&#8217;m mostly DDG, with some Bing, and a smattering of Brave), and try to get to the best result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do see well enough to do that.  But even if I didn&#8217;t, I still think there&#8217;d be a good way to answer a series of binary questions to get me to where I actually wanted to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ewe Can&#8217;t Truss You&#8217;re Ears. Speaker from Totes-didn&#8217;t-used-to-do-evil company. Focus on helping those of us who can&#8217;t see very well, or at all. Lots of discussion of masking things in unicode to try to lure people into visiting bad sites. I think there might be potential for doing things like confidence intervals, and requirements surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shmoocon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}