December 08, 2006
November 26, 2006
Taking Aim at Targeted Advertising
Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the kind you bake, but the digital kind—those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC and keep tabs on what Web sites are visited on which machines. They're useful because they help marketers tailor which ads are served to which users.
But cookies could have a bad aftertaste for consumers. Privacy advocates say the files are being force fed in large quantities to computer users, and they're demanding that the government put some advertisers on a diet.
But cookies could have a bad aftertaste for consumers. Privacy advocates say the files are being force fed in large quantities to computer users, and they're demanding that the government put some advertisers on a diet.
November 21, 2006
The Dark Side of Second Life
Software that lets residents copy others' possessions is the latest reminder that this virtual world may need tougher law enforcement
November 15, 2006
'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy.
November 09, 2006
November 07, 2006
Transparent, High Integrity, Open Source Elections
Welcome to the new age of elections. Punchscan is an optical scan voting system invented by David Chaum that allows voters to take a piece of the ballot home with them as a receipt. This receipt does not allow voters to prove how they voted to others, but it does permit them to:
* Verify that they have properly indicated their votes to election officials (cast-as-intended).
* Verify with extremely high assurance that all votes were counted properly (counted-as-cast).
Punchscan Voting in a Nutshell
Voting in a Punchscan election is easy enough to show you in 15 seconds. [watch]
* Verify that they have properly indicated their votes to election officials (cast-as-intended).
* Verify with extremely high assurance that all votes were counted properly (counted-as-cast).
Punchscan Voting in a Nutshell
Voting in a Punchscan election is easy enough to show you in 15 seconds. [watch]
October 28, 2006
September 24, 2006
September 04, 2006
August 18, 2006
Cloudmark - Anti Spam and Spam Blocker Solutions
Cloudmark - Anti Spam and Spam Blocker Solutions: "Authority blocks spam and phishing emails at the gateway before they can penetrate user inboxes. Real-time data feeds from the Cloudmark Collaborative Network of millions of users, coupled with highly optimized fingerprints ensure the highest spam detection rates and the fastest possible response to spam and phishing attacks."
August 08, 2006
Cameroon registry accused of typo-squatting .com | CNET News.com
Cameroon registry accused of typo-squatting .com | CNET News.com: "erican attorney, John Berryhill, who on Saturday wrote on the Internet infrastructure blog CircleID: 'The .cm (Cameroon) ccTLD operators have discovered that since their TLD is simply one omitted letter away from .com, that there is a gold mine in the typo traffic that comes their w"
August 07, 2006
Security '06 Technical Sessions
Security '06 Technical Sessions: "
Academic Department or Corporate Lab, Which Fits?
Bill Aiello, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science,
University of British Columbia
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Academic Department or Corporate Lab, Which Fits?
Bill Aiello, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science,
University of British Columbia
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August 05, 2006
August 02, 2006
Brindle on Security
Brindle on Security: "Just about any Mandatory Access Control (MAC) advocate will tell you that their ultimate security goal is least privilege. Least privilege has become a metaphorical holy grail in the security industry. Least privilege, in its unadulterated form is giving each user, process and so on the exact access it needs and no more."
Brindle on Security
Brindle on Security: "I’ll be the first to say I’m not a policy developer. The process of actually writing policy is not at all interesting to me, fortunately for me there are people like Chris PeBenito, Russell Coker, et al that seem to enjoy this. I am interested, however, in how policies are developed."
August 01, 2006
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