Review: Backdoor to Eugenics by Troy Duster

Joan H . Fujimura , Troy Duster and Ramya Rajagopalan Matters of Consequence

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Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening.

Introduction In this short commentary, we reflect on how ideas about disability intersect with prenatal technologies and what this likely means for the future landscape of reproductive medicine. In what follows, we assess the argument that prenatal technologies represent a form of “eugenics,” defined here as practices and policies designed to promote the reproduction of people with desired attr...

Backdoor eugenics: the troubling implications of certain damages awards in wrongful birth and wrongful life claims.

From Horn Strong Backdoor Sets to Ordered Strong Backdoor Sets

Identifying and exploiting hidden problem structures is recognized as a fundamental way to deal with the intractability of combinatorial problems. Recently, a particular structure called (strong) backdoor has been identified in the context of the satisfiability problem. Connections has been established between backdoors and problem hardness leading to a better approximation of the worst case ti...

How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman

Lately, several backdoors in cryptographic constructions, protocols and implementations have been surfacing in the wild: Dual-EC in RSA’s B-Safe product, a modified Dual-EC in Juniper’s operating system ScreenOS and a non-prime modulus in the open-source tool socat. Many papers have already discussed the fragility of cryptographic constructions not using nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, as well as...