Technology Policy/Social Issues in Computing
- A Generative AI Perspective on the Turing Test: Passed but Not Vindicated (November, 2025)
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38 ]
- An Overview of Generative AI Acceptable Use Policies by Universities with Top 25 Computer Science Programs (September, 2025)
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294 ]
- Cyberdidacticism: The New Epistemic Paradigm for cognitive minimalism and GenerativeAI (May, 2025)
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746 ]
- A Story Arc from Tron to Sora - Part 2: An Interview with Judson Rosebush (March, 2025)
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873 ]
- A Story Arc from Tron to Sora - Part 1: An Interview with Judson Rosebush (January, 2025)
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992 ]
- Healthy Skepticism (with John King, Phil Armour and Bob Charette) (November, 2024)
- Bruce Scheier on AI Security (interview) (November, 2024)
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1266 ]
- Election Integrity in the United States: How Will 2024 Compare to 2020? (October, 2024)
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1270 ]
- A Collapsing Academy V: Internal and External Threat Vectors Facing Higher Education (July, 2024)
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1750 ]
- Social Media, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Social Disruption (May, 2024)
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1808 ]
- Generative AI, Semantic Entropy, and the Big Sort (January, 2024)
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2097 ]
- The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context (November, 2023)
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2221 ]
- Fatal Flaws in ChatAI as a Content Generator (September, 2023)
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2518 ]
- “Free” Online Services and Gonzo Capitalism (July, 2023) [
2484 ]
- ChatGPT and AIChat Epistemology (May, 2023) [
10890 ]
- 911 Swatting, VoIP and Doxxing (March, 2023) [
4626 ]
- The Dictator's Dilemma and the "Sovereignty of Cyberspace" Delusion
(January, 2023) [
3442 ]
- Social Media and the Banality of (Online) Crowds (November, 2022) [
1698 ]
- Ukraine Aftershocks (November, 2022)
- A Collapsing Academy IV: How Did Memory and Gag Laws Gain Admission?(September, 2022) [
4548 ]
- Prosperity Theology Goes Online: Will This Be A Fifth Great Awakening?(July, 2022) [
4880 ]
- The QAnon Phenomenon: The Storm Has Always Been Among Us (May, 2022) [
5595 ]
- The Collapsing Academy - III: Scientometrics and Metric Mania? (March, 2022)
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5687 ]
- The State of The Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They? (January, 2022)
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6929 ]
- The Online Disinformation Opera (December, 2021)
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7959 ]
- The Collapsing Academy - II: Cancel Culture Goes to College (October, 2021)
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8172 ]
- It's On: COVID-19, Risk Ecology, and Preparedness Tips (July, 2020)
- The Collapsing Academy - I: Unhinging from Core Principles (July, 2020)
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7753 ]
- The Equifax Hack Revisited and Repurposed (May, 2020)
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12864 ]
- New Perspectives on (Anti) Social Media (March, 2020)
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7352 ]
- A Critical Look at the 2019 College Admissions Scandal (January, 2020)
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9782 ]
- The Sokol Hoax: A 25-Year Retrospective (March, 2020)
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9258 ]
- Moral Hazards in the Cyber Vulnerability Markets (December, 2019)
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10734 ]
- Huawei, BIS and the IEEE: it’s Déjà vu all over again (October, 2019)
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9245 ]
- Codes of Ethics in a Post-Truth World (March, 2019)
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8898 ]
- Vehicle Telematics: The Good, Bad, and Ugly (January, 2019)
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11955 ]
- Election Integrity 2018: Are We Better Off Than We Were in 2016 (November, 2018)
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10650 ]
- The Genesis of Postmodern Disinformatics (November, 2018)
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9894 ]
- The Online Trolling Ecosystem (August, 2018)
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9789 ]
- Newton's Great Insight (July, 2018)
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9994 ]
- Malice Domestic: The Cambridge Analytica Dystopia (May, 2018)
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10723 ]
- Weaponizing Twitter Litter: Abuse-Forming Networks and Social Media (April, 2018)
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9667 ]
- Trolling Pathologies (March, 2018)
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9705 ]
- Bruce Schneier on Future Digital Threats (February, 2018)
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9421 ]
- Disinformatics: The Discipline behind Grand Deceptions (January, 2018)
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10222 ]
- Equifax and the Latest Round of Identity Theft Roulette (December, 2017)
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1955 ]
- The New Science Wars (November, 2017)
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10163 ]
- Net Neutrality Reloaded (October, 2017)
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10254 ]
- Oh, What a Tangled
Web: Russian
Hacking, Fake News,
and the 2016 US
Presidential Election (September, 2017)
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10323 ]
- Which Is More Dangerous—the Dark Web or the Deep State? (July, 2017)
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10651 ]
- A Quick Take on Windows Security Evolution (May, 2017)
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10555 ]
- Alt-News and Post-Truths in the “Fake News” Era (April, 2017)
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11238 ]
- On the Problem of Cyber-Attribution(March, 2017)
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10298 ]
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Fake News (February, 2017)
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13232 ]
- Software Sophistry and Political Sleight of Hand (January, 2017)
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10256 ]
- Chasing Elbridges Ghost: Digital Gerrymandering (November, 2016)
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11945 ]
- Douglas Jones on Today's Voting Machines (October, 2016)
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10159 ]
- Coda in the Key of F2654hD4 (September, 2016)
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13682 ]
- The Polyanna Delusion (August, 2016)
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10337 ]
- The Dictator's Dilemma (July, 2016)
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12647 ]
- Attenuated FAQs (May, 2016)
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9899 ]
- The Bogus Science Theorem (and the Junk Science Wager) (April, 2016)
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10375 ]
- Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering (March, 2016)
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12436 ]
- Secretocracy (February, 2016)
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11418 ]
- Digital Politics 2016 (January 2016)
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2733 ]
- What Price Gonzo Ethics? (December, 2015)
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13283 ]
- The Dystory of Ahmed's Clock (November, 2015)
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10401 ]
- Legislating Technology (Badly) (October, 2015)
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17116 ]
- STEM Crazy (September, 2015)
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10738 ]
- TSA: Mission Creep Meets Waste (August, 2015)
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20558 ]
- A Farewell to Air Gaps - II (July, 2015)
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11869 ]
- A Farewell to Air Gaps - I (June, 2015)
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11689 ]
- What Makes A Good Column (May, 2015)
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13342 ]
- Borderline Executive Disorder (April, 2015)
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11303 ]
- Noirware (March, 2015)
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2485 ]
- Cyber Chutzpah: The Sony Hack and the Celebration of Hyperbole (February, 2015)
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12745 ]
- The $149 Gamble (January, 2015)
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10807 ]
- Judson Rosebush on Graphics and Animation (December, 2014)
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12186 ]
- Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors (November, 2014)
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16441 ]
- Defending Against Big Dada (October, 2014)
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15401 ]
- Sticky Wikis (September, 2014)
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11709 ]
- The Future of Digital Money Laundering (August, 2014)
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12763 ]
- Robert David Steele on OSINT (July, 2014)
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15080 ]
- Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex (June, 2014)
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13009 ]
- PII, the FTC, Car Dealers, and You (May, 2014)
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14764 ]
- Scapegoat Politics and Mr. Snowden's Legacy (April, 2014)
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14574 ]
- Reflections on STEM (March, 2014)
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12682 ]
- Moral Hazards, Negative Externalities, and the Surveillance Economy (February, 2014)
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16647 ]
- Privacy Informatics (January, 2014)
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16155 ]
- The Intimidation Factor (December, 2013)
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29892 ]
- Toxic Cookies (September, 2013)
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16433 ]
- Through the PRISM Darkly (July, 2013)
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15852 ]
- Computing Technology and Survivable Journalism (May, 2013)
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15463 ]
- The SCDOR Hack: Great Security Theater in Five Stages (March, 2013)
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17968 ]
- RFIDiocy: It's déjà vu all over again (January, 2013)
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16861 ]
- Stratfor or Stratagainst (November, 2012)
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15466 ]
- The Dumbing Down of SportPhishing (September, 2012)
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16359 ]
- The OuijAmazon Desktop Metaphor (July, 2012)
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14152 ]
- Breaking the Fourth Wall of Electronic Crime: Blame it on the Thespians (May, 2012)
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15830 ]
- WikiLeaks and the Matter of Private Manning (March, 2012)
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20072 ]
- Identity Theft and Financial Fraud: Some Strangeness in the Proportions (January, 2012)
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- BRAP Forensics: Boutique Computer Activity Mining vs. Personal Privacy Management (June, 2008)
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- Faith-Based Security (April, 2008)
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- Credit Card Forensics (December, 2007)
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- Better-than-Nothing Security Practices
(August, 2007)
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22358 ]
- Hiding Data, Forensics and Anti-Forensics
(April, 2007)
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- Fungible Credentials and 'Next Generation Fraud'
(December, 2006)
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- Disk Wiping by any Other Name
(August, 2006)
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- Phishing Mongers and Posers (April, 2006)
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- Pernicious Ports (December, 2005)
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- WiFi Attack Vectors (August, 2005)
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- The Two Sides of ROI: Return-on-Investment vs. Risk-of-Incarceration (April, 2005)
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- Wireless InFidelity II: Airjacking (December, 2004)
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- Wireless InFidelity I: War Driving (July, 2004)
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- Wading into Alternate Data Streams (April, 2004)
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36325 ]
- SoBig, W32/Blaster and the Malware Month of the Millenium (December, 2003)
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31454 ]
- The Discipline of Internet Forensics (August, 2003)
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57170 ]
- Anonymizing the Net (April, 2003)
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- Responsible Web Caching (September, 2002)
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28188 ]
- Hijacking the Web (April, 2002)
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33226 ]
- The Code Red Worm (November, 2001)
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- E_Commerce: Business at the Speed of Sleet (August, 2001)
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29037
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- Caustic Cookies (April, 2001)
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34563
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- Digital Politics 2000 (Nov, 2000)
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25606
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- Predatory Disintermediation (May, 2000)
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32664
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- Social Security Numbers, Theft Identity, and the Web (November, 1999)
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31104
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- The Cost of Having
Analog Executives in a Digital World (August, 1999)
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18776
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- Y2k and Xday (May, 1999)
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25610
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- Value-Added Publishing (January, 1999)
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24284
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- Who Won the Mosaic War? (October, 1998)
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26975
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- The Year 2000 Problem
and the New Riddle of Induction (March, 1998)
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24566
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- Watermarking Cyberspace (November, 1997)
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25117
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- The Communications
Decency Act, Informal Logic and the Wapnerization of Cyberspace (July, 1997)
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20327
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- Email: the good, the bad and the ugly (April, 1997)
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14571
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- Cyberspace 2000: Dealing with Information Overload (February, 1997)
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21029
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- Digital Politics (October, 1996)
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28842
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- Technology Policy in the Information Age (June, 1996)
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55840
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- HTML Compliance and the Return of the Test Pattern (February, 1996)
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27740
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- Maiden Voyage: Digital Villages and Cyberspace (November, 1995)
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24262
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- The 2012 Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Conference (Winter, 2013)
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12837
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- Bandwidth Bandits Old and New (Fall, 2012)
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15475
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- Online Gaming in the Jurassic Period
(Summer, 2012)
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12914
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- Digital Watermarking for Fun and Profit
(Spring, 2012)
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14372
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- Some Thoughts on the Art and Practice of Avoiding Identity Theft and Financial Fraud
(Winter, 2012)
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14285
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- Identity Theft and Financial Fraud - 2010 in Review
(Fall, 2011)
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13652
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- Cyberwarfare 2011: Let the Stuxnet Games Begin
(Summer, 2011)
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17350
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- Cablegate - Security Theater in Three Acts (give or take)
(Spring, 2011)
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14952
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- The Afghanistan War Diary Wikileak
(Winter, 2011)
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14550
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- Stuck on Stupid : Dumb Decisions in IT
(Fall, 2010)
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14688
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- PCI Insecurity and Life in a Shadow Economy
(Spring, 2010)
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15075
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- Are Your Web Bugs No-See-Ums?
(Winter, 2010)
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16700
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- Ways We Invite Identity Theft
(Fall, 2009)
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14595
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- RFID and Nuance
(Spring, 2009)
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15298
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- Defcon 16 Revisited
(Winter, 2009)
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15175
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- Digital Vaults, Crypts and Ossuaries
(Fall, 2008)
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15324
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- Security-Through-Obscurity: there's less to this than meets the eye
(Spring, 2008)
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22230
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- Oga get no Dolla Chop. Magha get last laugh.-
The Nigerian 419 Scam Gets Gypped in the Marsh
(Winter 2008)
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16057
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- Why Can't We Get Rid of Spam? (Fall 2007)
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17175
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- Phish Phactors(Spring 2007)
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17973
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- How Vendor-Specific Websites and Bogus Error Messages Can Destroy a Web Presence(Winter 2007)
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17317
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- What Really Happens When Your SYSAD Sanitizes Your Disk Drives? (August 2006)
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20033
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- Mag Stripe Mania: Credit Card Fraud and the Right Hand Rule of Physics (Spring 2006)
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28260
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- Malware's Second Coming (Winter 2006)
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16337
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- Mutual Authentication, Plastic, and Phishing (Fall 2005)
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16304
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- ROI vs. OSA: Return-on-Investment vs. Orange Suit Avoidance (Spring 2005)
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3803
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- Why Wireless Networks are Insecure? (Winter 2005)
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5041
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- Defense-in-Depth: Hardening the BIOS (Fall, 2004)
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15894
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- Practical Hints for Password
Protection (Spring, 2004)
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20684
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