Life, Intelligence, and the Selection of Universes

Vaas, Rüdiger

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“…Like U2F, it supports hardware authentication devices as a second-factor, however, most importantly, it also supports them as a single-factor for passwordless authentication. Considering the institutions backing FIDO2, this new standard has been presented in the media as a "password-killer" [4], [5], [6], [7]. Also from an academic point of view, using the framework by Bonneau et al [1] (as we explain in Section II), FIDO2 seems like a promising candidate for succeeding textbased passwords as the incumbent end-user authentication scheme: it provides credentials that cannot be phished, replayed, nor are they subject to server breaches; being an open web authentication standard (WebAuthn), it is supported by virtually all browsers, and native implementations, like on Android and Windows, exist and more are forthcoming; it can provide a consistent user experience; and it supports various authenticator devices, including security keys, like the ones from Yubico or Feitian, but also integrated authenticators commonly available on end-user devices, like Trusted Platform Modules, Android keystore, or Apple TouchID.…”

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Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication

Lyastani

Schilling

Neumayr

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

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The newest contender for succeeding passwords as the incumbent web authentication scheme is the FIDO2 standard. Jointly developed and backed by the FIDO Alliance and the W3C, FIDO2 has found support in virtually every browser, finds increasing support by service providers, and has adoptions beyond browser-software on its way. While it supports MFA and 2FA, its single-factor, passwordless authentication with security tokens has received the bulk of attention and was hailed by its supporters and the media as the solution that will replace text-passwords on the web. Despite its obvious security and deployability benefits-a setting that no prior solution had in this strong combination-the paradigm shift from a familiar knowledge factor to purely a possession factor raises questions about the acceptance of passwordless authentication by end-users.This paper presents the first large-scale lab study of FIDO2 single-factor authentication to collect insights about end-users' perception, acceptance, and concerns about passwordless authentication. Through hands-on tasks our participants gather first-hand experience with passwordless authentication using a security key, which they afterwards reflect on in a survey. Our results show that users are willing to accept a direct replacement of text-based passwords with a security key for single-factor authentication. That is an encouraging result in the quest to replace passwords. But, our results also identify new concerns that can potentially hinder the widespread adoption of FIDO2 passwordless authentication. In order to mitigate these factors, we derive concrete recommendations to try to help in the ongoing proliferation of passwordless authentication on the web.

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Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication

Lyastani

Schilling

Neumayr

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

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“…Interessant für Superzivilisationen könnte zudem die Umgebung Schwarzer Löcher sein, denn diese sind die effizientesten und langfristigsten Energiequellen, Entropiesenken und Informationsspeicher im Universum überhaupt (Press & Teukolsky, 1972;Cardoso et al, 2004;Vidal, 2011;Smart, 2012;Opatrný et al, 2017;Vaas, 2019;Dvali & Osmanov, 2023). Dort sind ebenfalls Technosignaturen vorstellbar (Inoue & Yokoo, 2011;Jackson & Benford, 2019).…”

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UAP Research in Germany: Single Case Studies, Data Management, Understanding of “Strangeness”

Ammon,

Günter,

Kramer

et al. 2023

Journal of Anomalistics / Zeitschrift Für Anomalistik

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Unidentified Aerial/Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) have become a serious research topic in the last years. Beyond the current efforts of U. S. government agencies, NASA, and several research institutions, data on UAP have been collected for many decades in private research organizations world-wide. However, the status of the work in Germany in particular is little known internationally. This paper presents the current state of knowledge and lists key issues regarding research on UAP. Using the example of the largest research organization in Germany, the “Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO-Phänomens – GEP e.V.” (Society for the Study of the UFO Phenomenon), this paper describes how lay research or citizen science can contribute to addressing these key issues. Conducting individual case studies for data collection, requirements-driven research data management and the theoretical development of basic definitions of “UAP” as well as “anomalies” and “strangeness” are identified as core factors for progress in UAP research, for which increased international cooperation between all institutions involved will be required in the future.

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“…Some scholars have pushed the implications and consequences of UD to the limit Price (2019). andVaas (2019), for example, proposed that the ultimate manifestation of our evolving universe would be the emergence of an intelligence, able to tame the cosmos by enhancing cosmological selection (sensuSmolin, 1998).…”

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The evolution (sensu lato) of the cosmos can be divided in three phases: cosmological evolution (sensu stricto), biological evolution and cultural evolution. Analogies between biological and cultural evolution date from the nineteenth century although it is only in the past two decades that so-called cultural evolution research has exploded. By contrast, comparisons between cosmological evolution and either biological or cultural evolution are uncommon. Here, we compare these three kinds of evolution and try to delineate their common grammar. Do their structure and underlying dynamics have characteristics in common? We believe that this is indeed the case and also that this Universal Grammar of Evolution can and should be used as a heuristic template in the study of these three kinds of evolution. Furthermore, this provisional template also might help scholars in their attempts to sketch the future course of a possible fourth kind of evolution, that of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines.

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Life, Intelligence, and the Selection of Universes

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Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication

Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication

UAP Research in Germany: Single Case Studies, Data Management, Understanding of “Strangeness”

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