New year’s day was my 98th birthday, at least according to my Facebook profile. It was a good day to learn a lesson about privacy and community.
For a long time, I simply ignored Facebook’s requirement that you enter your birthday “as a security measure.” How can Facebook knowing your birthday make anyone more secure? Perhaps [...]
I’ve always been careful not to reveal much personal information online and often distrust online vendors. Some of my friends are thus surprised that I have a homepage, a blog and now a tumblelog. However, compared to other friends just a few years younger than me, my online self is decidedly modest; those friends enthusiastically fill out their profiles [...]
As part of the Technology and Policy Program’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Alan Davidson gave a talk today titled “Internet Regulation and Design” from the point of view of Google, where he works as the Washington Policy Counsel (aka Chief Lobbyist). Google currently has a small (three person) office in DC, representing their interests.
The first part of Davidson’s talk was [...]
Susan Hohenberger defended her thesis Friday at MIT. Susan’s thesis work is on developing secure algorithms for proxy cryptography. These are new cryptographic constructions that are designed to allow a third party, the proxy, to take a cryptographic object produced for (or by) a particular key and transform it so that it is a valid object for (or [...]
Boycott Performance Bike.
Performance is a company that sells bike components. They’re pretty big and have acquired their former competitors like Nashbar and SuperGo. That’s too bad because I really don’t like Performance. Maybe you shouldn’t either.
In 2001, Kevin Fu and I (along with some other members of the Applied Security Reading Group) were looking into the security [...]
