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How much did shutting down McColo help?

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2009-07-17 00:35:49 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
On 11 November 2008 McColo, a Californian server hosting company, was disconnected from the Internet . This took the controllers for 6 major botnets offline. It has been widely reported that email spam volumes were markedly reduced for some time thereafter. But did disconnecting McColo only get rid of easy to block spam In a paper presented this...
 
Tags: spam reduction, spam, email spam volumes, mccolo, email, block spam, email traffic data, data, content
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Privacy in Social Networks

2009-06-26 07:33:19 by Joseph Bonneau in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...information about their privacy practices. Most users therefore cant tell what theyre getting in to, resulting in the predominance of poor-practices in this privacy jungle
 
Tags: privacy, sites privacy policies, privacy policies, limit privacy salience, privacy policy, privacy practices, privacy re-assurance, privacy positively, positively
 
 
 
 
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WEIS 2009 - liveblog

2009-06-24 06:35:11 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
Im at the 2009 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at UCL in London. Ill be liveblogging the event in followups to this post
 
Tags: information security, post, economics, workshop, followups, event, ucl, london
 
 
 
 
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Static Consent and the Dynamic Web

2009-06-18 11:38:18 by Joseph Bonneau in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...information available to them was easy to get with a fake account. Still, silently making millions of weakly-restricted profiles globally viewable raises some disturbing questions. If Terms of Service promise to only share data consistent with users privacy settings, but the available privacy settings change as features are added, what use...
 
Tags: data, share data consistent, web, personal data, data collection, users, users privacy settings, share data, web pages
 
 
 
 
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Open letter to Google

2009-06-16 11:39:11 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
I am one of 38 researchers and academics (almost all of whom are far more important and famous than I will ever be!), who has signed an Open Letter to Googles CEO, Eric Schmidt The letter, whose text is released today , calls upon Google to honour the important privacy promises it has made to its customers and protect users communications from...
 
Tags: google, edit, google edit, letter, google mail, eric schmidt, protect users communications, public wifi connection, issues
 
 
 
 
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Security and Human Behaviour 2009

2009-06-11 11:35:58 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...security engineers together with psychologists, behavioral economists and others interested in deception, fraud, fearmongering, risk perception and how we make security systems more usable. Here is the agenda This workshop was first held last year, and most of us who attended reckoned it was the most exciting event wed been to in some while....
 
Tags: brings security engineers, shb, risk perception, security systems, behavioral economists, fraud, held, post, workshop
 
 
 
 
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How Privacy Fails: The Facebook Applications Debacle

2009-06-09 20:34:04 by Joseph Bonneau in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...information was passed, so the ad-server can slowly build up a database of user information The third bit (red) is the amazing part-all of my session parameters were sent to the ad server as well. Because I authorised the application, these parameters are a capability to query Facebook for my data and my friends data. Sure enough, the ad...
 
Tags: application, third-party facebook application, facebooks application platform, applications, facebook applications, popular facebook application, party, facebook, quiz application
 
 
 
 
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Attack of the Zombie Photos

2009-05-20 03:36:54 by Joseph Bonneau in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...security). We ran our initial study for 30 days, and posted the results below. A dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days Site Type CDN Operator Revocation Bebo Social Networking Bebo Unrevoked Blogger Blogging Google 36 hours Facebook Social Networking Akamai Unrevoked Flickr Photo Sharing Yahoo Immediate Fotki Photo...
 
Tags: photo server, server, special-purpose photo servers, purpose, photo servers, photos, photo, content, user content
 
 
 
 
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Location privacy

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2009-05-19 11:30:48 by Frank Stajano in Light Blue Touchpaper
...security of location-based systems, so I wrote Foot-driven computing: our first glimpse of location privacy issues In 1989 at ORL we developed the Active Badge, the first indoor location system: an infrared transmitter worn by personnel that allowed you to tell which room the wearer was in. Every press and TV reporter who visited our lab...
 
Tags: privacy, location privacy, location privacy issues, active badge, active badge project, address, people, energy consumption issue, indoor location system
 
 
 
 
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Security economics video

2009-05-18 10:37:25 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...security economics (and the slides ). Ive given variants of this survey talk at various conferences over the past two or three years; at last one of them recorded the talk and put the video online. Theres also a survey paper that covers much of the same material. If you find this interesting, you might enjoy coming along to WEIS (the Workshop...
 
Tags: economics, video, security economics, survey talk, talk, video online, survey paper, information security, slides
 
 
 
 
 
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