Computer Fraud and Abuse Act case against hard drive destroying director goes forward
Deloitte & Touche LLP v. Carlson, 2011 WL 2923865 (N.D. Ill. July 18, 2011) Defendant had risen to the level of Director of a large consulting and professional services firm. (There is some irony here – this case involves the destruction of electronic data, and defendant had been in charge of the firm’s security and [...]
"You Might Also Like:" Privacy Risks of Collaborative Filtering
Ann Kilzer, Arvind Narayanan, Ed Felten, Vitaly Shmatikov, and I have released a new research paper detailing the privacy risks posed by collaborative filtering recommender systems. To examine the risk, we use public data available from Hunch, Library…
"You Might Also Like:" Privacy Risks of Collaborative Filtering
Ann Kilzer, Arvind Narayanan, Ed Felten, Vitaly Shmatikov, and I have released a new research paper detailing the privacy risks posed by collaborative filtering recommender systems. To examine the risk, we use public data available from Hunch, Library…
Proposed Internet Surveillance bill ill advised
Michael Geist has written a good article in the Ottawa Citizen disucssing why the proposed “lawful access” internet surveillance law should not be passed. From teh article: Lawful access raises genuine privacy and free speech concerns, particularly given the fact the government has never provided adequate evidence on the need for it, it has never [...]
Tracking Your Every Move: iPhone Retains Extensive Location History
Today, Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan revealed that Apple’s iPhone maintains an apparently indefinite log of its location history. To show the data available, they produced and demoed an application called iPhone Tracker for plotting these locations…
Tracking Your Every Move: iPhone Retains Extensive Location History
Today, Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan revealed that Apple’s iPhone maintains an apparently indefinite log of its location history. To show the data available, they produced and demoed an application called iPhone Tracker for plotting these locations…
Log-in demand crosses line
For the London Free Press – April 4, 2011 Read this on Canoe Employers who want applicants’ social media log-ins to check them out are going too far It not unusual for employers to conduct Google searches on prospective employees or check their public social media feeds. But prospective employer’s requests for job applicants’ social [...]
Why seals can’t secure elections
Over the last few weeks, I’ve described the chaotic attempts of the State of New Jersey to come up with tamper-indicating seals and a seal use protocol to secure its voting machines.
A seal use protocol can allow the seal user to gain some assurance t…
Why seals can’t secure elections
Over the last few weeks, I’ve described the chaotic attempts of the State of New Jersey to come up with tamper-indicating seals and a seal use protocol to secure its voting machines.
A seal use protocol can allow the seal user to gain some assurance t…
Web Browsers and Comodo Disclose A Successful Certificate Authority Attack, Perhaps From Iran
Today, the public learned of a previously undisclosed compromise of a trusted Certificate Authority — one of the entities that issues certificates attesting to the identity of “secure” web sites. Last week, Comodo quietly issued a command via its cer…
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