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NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research (nsf.gov)

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-paid dept.

aarondubrow writes: The National Science Foundation announced $74.5 million in grants for basic research in cybersecurity. Among the awards are projects to understand and offer reliability to cryptocurrencies; invent technologies to broadly scan large swaths of the Internet and automate the detection and patching of vulnerabilities; and establish the science of censorship resistance by developing accurate models of the capabilities of censors. According to NSF, long-term support for fundamental cybersecurity research has resulted in public key encryption, software security bug detection, spam filtering and more.

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  1. "broadly scan large swaths of the internet" by vikingpower · · Score: 2

    Harmless, bro. Absolutely harmless. What could go fucking wrong ?

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  2. Should go reverse by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

    Awards for cracking large parts of the internet . Awards for destabilizing a concurrency hence providing proof of concept.

  3. NSF/NSA same same by Virtucon · · Score: 2

    Once you understand how to make it more "secure" you know where the holes are to break into it.

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  4. Some basic research in cybersecurity .. by nickweller · · Score: 1

    Design a MMU so that one process cannot walk all over the memory belonging to another process. Design a MMU where read-only, data and executable really mean: read-only, data and executable.

  5. security but not all by marcelolynx · · Score: 1

    when big enterprise talk about security, i remember the NSA case, because the limite bettwen entry know rules for security is attack for security is small, more or less this.