A blog about current topics in computer science and media, maintained by students of the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart (Stuttgart Media University).
Recent Posts
Social Bots – An Attack on Democracy?
Election campaigns are increasingly carried out in social networks to influence voters. Social bots are being used for this purpose, which raises the question of how much influence they have on voters and whether they can even endanger a democracy. Furthermore, the question arises as to who can be held responsible for this and how…
Cryptomining Malware – How criminals use your devices to get wealthy!
Has your computer ever been slow and you couldn’t tell what the problem was? Nowadays, illicit cryptomining can cause those performance problems. It dethroned ransomware as the top cybersecurity threat in 2018. (Webroot Threat Report 2018) A simple website visit can start the mining process as a javascript running in the background of the browser…
The (in)security about speaker legitimacy detection
For the most of us, voices are a crucial part in our every-day communication. Whether we talk to other people over the phone or in real life, through different voices we’re able to distinguish our counterparts, convey different meanings with the same words, and – maybe most importantly – connect the voice we hear to…
Security and Usability: How to design secure systems people can use.
Security hit a high level of importance due to rising technological standards. Unfortunately it leads to a conflict with Usability as Security makes operations harder whereas Usability is supposed to make it easier. Many people are convinced that there is a tradeoff between them. This results in either secure systems that are not usable or…
Setting up a CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab
Introduction For all my university software projects, I use the HdM Gitlab instance for version control. But Gitlab offers much more such as easy and good ways to operate a pipeline. In this article, I will show how we can use the CI/CD functionality in a university project to perform automated testing and an automated…
Using Google’s Cloud Vision API to create a Receipt Analyzer
Everyone knows the problem of keeping track of expenses. Many applications offer an overview of all expenses, but entering all data individually can be quite time-consuming. To overcome this task, we have developed SWAI, ‘A Scanner with A.I.’.
Convenient internet voting using blockchain technology
Within this century the use of digital technology has probably never been as high and as convenient as of today. People use the internet to access encyclopedias, look up food recipes and share pictures of their pets. It doesn’t matter whether you are at home, standing in an aisle at the grocery store or even…
Multiplayer TypeScript Application run on AWS Services
Daniel Knizia – dk100@hdm-stuttgart.deBenjamin Janzen – bj009@hdm-stuttgart.de The project CatchMe is a location-based multiplayer game for mobile devices. The idea stems from the classic board game Scotland Yard, basically a modern version of hide & seek. You play in a group with up to 5 players outside, where on of the players gets to be…
How does Tor work?
Written by Tim Tenckhoff – tt031 | Computer Science and Media 1. Introduction The mysterious dark part of the internet – hidden in depths of the world wide web, is well known as a lawless space for shady online drug deals or other criminal activities. But in times of continuous tracking on the Internet, personalized…
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