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One type of strange result you can get from this is that if you have some weird small stock or cryptocurrency that doesn’t trade very much, you can give it a very large market capitalization by selling one share or token to your buddy at an inflated price, and then you can go around telling people “ooh look at the huge market cap of this thing, it is so valuable, it must have discovered a cure for cancer,” and maybe you can do bad stuff with that.
The Nickel Market Almost Broke
bloomberg.com
ENF matching shows how easy it is to leak information via unexpected side-channels. But despite its intellectual attraction, it might not actually be very important very often. Recordings don’t always contain the right kind of electrical noise. Perhaps they weren’t taken near enough to a source of mains hum, or perhaps the recording device didn’t pick up the right frequencies. In my testing I’ve been able to reliably extract and match the ENF from other people’s example recordings, but not yet from my own. Even if a recording does contain the hum, it needs to be at least 10 minutes long in order to be date-able, and even then the matching process remains prone to false positives.
How to Date a Recording Using Background Electrical Noise
Robert Heaton
I use the term __“efficacy” to describe the quality or virtue that the Politics journalists took to be the mark of a good and worthy journalist in these circumstances—that is, the ability to handle one’s news assignments in a way that effectively achieved the ends and outcomes that needed to be achieved in order for one’s newsmaking project to continue.__ I examine three reportorial skills that the Politics journalists cultivated to make themselves more efficacious newsmakers. These are, first, the ability to identify __“doable”__ (keyi zuo de) news items, topics that are likely to result in publishable articles; second, the ability to approach the news reporting process __“as a game”__; and, third, the ability to bend the rules of the news reporting process to make one’s assignments __easier to complete__.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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