Citizen Ai: Warrior, Jester, and Middleman

RFID and the Middleman

Existing bank-card payment systems, such as EMV, have two serious vulnerabilities: the user does not have a trustworthy interface, and the protocols are vulnerable in a number of ways to man-in-themiddle attacks. Moving to RFID payments may, on the one hand, let bank customers use their mobile phones to make payments, which will go a fair way towards fixing the interface problem; on the other h...

Pursuing the middleman

JCB • VOLUME 171 • NUMBER 4 • 2005 584 Pursuing the middleman: the hunt for integrins y the mid-1970s, the idea of a transmembrane molecule linking the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix (ECM) had some supporting evidence. Adhesion molecules were hot in areas ranging from developmental biology to tumor biology, and the mounting suggestive evidence that a “fibronectin receptor” existed mad...

Stan Glantz, tobacco warrior.

Stan Glantz’s voice carries the conviction and decibel level one would associate with a man who, with a handful of other courageous souls, has stood up to the mighty tobacco industry. A man who has played a key role in revealing to the world how over the past four decades tobacco executives have concealed the findings of their own scientists that tobacco kills and that nicotine is addictive. Ye...

Peace and the Divine Warrior

YHWH is a Warrior