Technology Policy/Social Issues in Computing
- 911 Swatting, VoIP and Doxxing(January, 2023) [
96 ]
- The Dictator's Dilemma and the "Sovereignty of Cyberspace" Delusion
(January, 2023) [
208 ]
- Social Media and the Banality of (Online) Crowds (November, 2022) [
1186 ]
- Ukraine Aftershocks (November, 2022)
- A Collapsing Academy IV: How Did Memory and Gag Laws Gain Admission?(September, 2022) [
1602 ]
- Prosperity Theology Goes Online: Will This Be A Fifth Great Awakening?(July, 2022) [
2092 ]
- The QAnon Phenomenon: The Storm Has Always Been Among Us (May, 2022) [
2679 ]
- The Collapsing Academy - III: Scientometrics and Metric Mania? (March, 2022)
[
2673 ]
- The State of The Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They? (January, 2022)
[
4096 ]
- The Online Disinformation Opera (December, 2021)
[
4611 ]
- The Collapsing Academy - II: Cancel Culture Goes to College(October, 2021)
[
4963 ]
- It's On: COVID-19, Risk Ecology, and Preparedness Tips (July, 2020)
- The Collapsing Academy - I: Unhinging from Core Principles (July, 2020)
[
4994 ]
- The Equifax Hack Revisited and Repurposed (May, 2020)
[
4738 ]
- New Perspectives on (Anti) Social Media (March, 2020)
[
4712 ]
- A Critical Look at the 2019 College Admissions Scandal (January, 2020)
[
6383 ]
- The Sokol Hoax: A 25-Year Retrospective (March, 2020)
[
6154 ]
- Moral Hazards in the Cyber Vulnerability Markets (December, 2019)
[
6813 ]
- Huawei, BIS and the IEEE: it’s Déjà vu all over again (October, 2019)
[
6270 ]
- Codes of Ethics in a Post-Truth World (March, 2019)
[
6504 ]
- Vehicle Telematics: The Good, Bad, and Ugly (January, 2019)
[
9361 ]
- Election Integrity 2018: Are We Better Off Than We Were in 2016 (November, 2018)
[
8085 ]
- The Genesis of Postmodern Disinformatics (November, 2018)
[
6945 ]
- The Online Trolling Ecosystem (August, 2018)
[
7105 ]
- Newton's Great Insight (July, 2018)
[
7169 ]
- Malice Domestic: The Cambridge Analytica Dystopia (May, 2018)
[
7606 ]
- Weaponizing Twitter Litter: Abuse-Forming Networks and Social Media (April, 2018)
[
6726 ]
- Trolling Pathologies (March, 2018)
[
7028 ]
- Bruce Schneier on Future Digital Threats (February, 2018)
[
6985 ]
- Disinformatics: The Discipline behind Grand Deceptions (January, 2018)
[
7601 ]
- Equifax and the Latest Round of Identity Theft Roulette (December, 2017)
[
8053 ]
- The New Science Wars (November, 2017)
[
7483 ]
- Net Neutrality Reloaded (October, 2017)
[
7411 ]
- Oh, What a Tangled
Web: Russian
Hacking, Fake News,
and the 2016 US
Presidential Election (September, 2017)
[
7881 ]
- Which Is More Dangerous—the Dark Web or the Deep State? (July, 2017)
[
8102 ]
- A Quick Take on Windows Security Evolution (May, 2017)
[
7822 ]
- Alt-News and Post-Truths in the “Fake News” Era (April, 2017)
[
8455 ]
- On the Problem of Cyber-Attribution(March, 2017)
[
7788 ]
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Fake News (February, 2017)
[
10118 ]
- Software Sophistry and Political Sleight of Hand (January, 2017)
[
7826 ]
- Chasing Elbridges Ghost: Digital Gerrymandering (November, 2016)
[
9263 ]
- Douglas Jones on Today's Voting Machines (October, 2016)
[
7923 ]
- Coda in the Key of F2654hD4 (September, 2016)
[
10578 ]
- The Polyanna Delusion (August, 2016)
[
7730 ]
- The Dictator's Dilemma (July, 2016)
[
8523 ]
- Attenuated FAQs (May, 2016)
[
7681 ]
- The Bogus Science Theorem (and the Junk Science Wager) (April, 2016)
[
8055 ]
- Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering (March, 2016)
[
9823 ]
- Secretocracy (February, 2016)
[
8905 ]
- Digital Politics 2016 (January 2016)
[
2295 ]
- What Price Gonzo Ethics? (December, 2015)
[
9995 ]
- The Dystory of Ahmed's Clock (November, 2015)
[
8106 ]
- Legislating Technology (Badly) (October, 2015)
[
9595 ]
- STEM Crazy (September, 2015)
[
8447 ]
- TSA: Mission Creep Meets Waste (August, 2015)
[
12819 ]
- A Farewell to Air Gaps - II (July, 2015)
[
9609 ]
- A Farewell to Air Gaps - I (June, 2015)
[
9146 ]
- What Makes A Good Column (May, 2015)
[
10903 ]
- Borderline Executive Disorder (April, 2015)
[
9070 ]
- Noirware (March, 2015)
[
11022 ]
- Cyber Chutzpah: The Sony Hack and the Celebration of Hyperbole (February, 2015)
[
10595 ]
- The $149 Gamble (January, 2015)
[
8628 ]
- Judson Rosebush on Graphics and Animation (December, 2014)
[
9575 ]
- Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors (November, 2014)
[
13377 ]
- Defending Against Big Dada (October, 2014)
[
12824 ]
- Sticky Wikis (September, 2014)
[
9271 ]
- The Future of Digital Money Laundering (August, 2014)
[
9547 ]
- Robert David Steele on OSINT (July, 2014)
[
12174 ]
- Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex (June, 2014)
[
10709 ]
- PII, the FTC, Car Dealers, and You (May, 2014)
[
11973 ]
- Scapegoat Politics and Mr. Snowden's Legacy (April, 2014)
[
12088 ]
- Reflections on STEM (March, 2014)
[
10486 ]
- Moral Hazards, Negative Externalities, and the Surveillance Economy (February, 2014)
[
13928 ]
- Privacy Informatics (January, 2014)
[
12753 ]
- The Intimidation Factor (December, 2013)
[
23224 ]
- Toxic Cookies (September, 2013)
[
13797 ]
- Through the PRISM Darkly (July, 2013)
[
13179 ]
- Computing Technology and Survivable Journalism (May, 2013)
[
13167 ]
- The SCDOR Hack: Great Security Theater in Five Stages (March, 2013)
[
15414 ]
- RFIDiocy: It's déjà vu all over again (January, 2013)
[
14688 ]
- Stratfor or Stratagainst (November, 2012)
[
13248 ]
- The Dumbing Down of SportPhishing (September, 2012)
[
14112 ]
- The OuijAmazon Desktop Metaphor (July, 2012)
[
11927 ]
- Breaking the Fourth Wall of Electronic Crime: Blame it on the Thespians (May, 2012)
[
13696 ]
- WikiLeaks and the Matter of Private Manning (March, 2012)
[
17651 ]
- Identity Theft and Financial Fraud: Some Strangeness in the Proportions (January, 2012)
[
17236 ]
- BRAP Forensics: Boutique Computer Activity Mining vs. Personal Privacy Management (June, 2008)
[
181523 ]
- Faith-Based Security (April, 2008)
[
21767 ]
- Credit Card Forensics (December, 2007)
[
129220 ]
- Better-than-Nothing Security Practices
(August, 2007)
[
19681 ]
- Hiding Data, Forensics and Anti-Forensics
(April, 2007)
[
245972 ]
- Fungible Credentials and 'Next Generation Fraud'
(December, 2006)
[
47337 ]
- Disk Wiping by any Other Name
(August, 2006)
[
144242 ]
- Phishing Mongers and Posers (April, 2006)
[
29896 ]
- Pernicious Ports (December, 2005)
[
134529 ]
- WiFi Attack Vectors (August, 2005)
[
177782 ]
- The Two Sides of ROI: Return-on-Investment vs. Risk-of-Incarceration (April, 2005)
[
36437 ]
- Wireless InFidelity II: Airjacking (December, 2004)
[
148928 ]
- Wireless InFidelity I: War Driving (July, 2004)
[
184850 ]
- Wading into Alternate Data Streams (April, 2004)
[
33082 ]
- SoBig, W32/Blaster and the Malware Month of the Millenium (December, 2003)
[
28414 ]
- The Discipline of Internet Forensics (August, 2003)
[
53608 ]
- Anonymizing the Net (April, 2003)
[
36675 ]
- Responsible Web Caching (September, 2002)
[
25269 ]
- Hijacking the Web (April, 2002)
[
30580 ]
- The Code Red Worm (November, 2001)
[
46677
]
- E_Commerce: Business at the Speed of Sleet (August, 2001)
[
26574
]
- Caustic Cookies (April, 2001)
[
31716
]
- Digital Politics 2000 (Nov, 2000)
[
23092
]
- Predatory Disintermediation (May, 2000)
[
30046
]
- Social Security Numbers, Theft Identity, and the Web (November, 1999)
[
28014
]
- The Cost of Having
Analog Executives in a Digital World (August, 1999)
[
76358
]
- Y2k and Xday (May, 1999)
[
22657
]
- Value-Added Publishing (January, 1999)
[
21682
]
- Who Won the Mosaic War? (October, 1998)
[
24293
]
- The Year 2000 Problem
and the New Riddle of Induction (March, 1998)
[
21893
]
- Watermarking Cyberspace (November, 1997)
[
22746
]
- The Communications
Decency Act, Informal Logic and the Wapnerization of Cyberspace (July, 1997)
[
17594
]
- Email: the good, the bad and the ugly (April, 1997)
[
10588
]
- Cyberspace 2000: Dealing with Information Overload (February, 1997)
[
18041
]
- Digital Politics (October, 1996)
[
26253
]
- Technology Policy in the Information Age (June, 1996)
[
53161
]
- HTML Compliance and the Return of the Test Pattern (February, 1996)
[
25067
]
- Maiden Voyage: Digital Villages and Cyberspace (November, 1995)
[
21919
]
- The 2012 Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Conference (Winter, 2013)
[
10486
]
- Bandwidth Bandits Old and New (Fall, 2012)
[
12777
]
- Online Gaming in the Jurassic Period
(Summer, 2012)
[
10464
]
- Digital Watermarking for Fun and Profit
(Spring, 2012)
[
12028
]
- Some Thoughts on the Art and Practice of Avoiding Identity Theft and Financial Fraud
(Winter, 2012)
[
11866
]
- Identity Theft and Financial Fraud - 2010 in Review
(Fall, 2011)
[
11366
]
- Cyberwarfare 2011: Let the Stuxnet Games Begin
(Summer, 2011)
[
14186
]
- Cablegate - Security Theater in Three Acts (give or take)
(Spring, 2011)
[
12371
]
- The Afghanistan War Diary Wikileak
(Winter, 2011)
[
11743
]
- Stuck on Stupid : Dumb Decisions in IT
(Fall, 2010)
[
12007
]
- PCI Insecurity and Life in a Shadow Economy
(Spring, 2010)
[
12524
]
- Are Your Web Bugs No-See-Ums?
(Winter, 2010)
[
14022
]
- Ways We Invite Identity Theft
(Fall, 2009)
[
12020
]
- RFID and Nuance
(Spring, 2009)
[
12543
]
- Defcon 16 Revisited
(Winter, 2009)
[
12630
]
- Digital Vaults, Crypts and Ossuaries
(Fall, 2008)
[
12903
]
- Security-Through-Obscurity: there's less to this than meets the eye
(Spring, 2008)
[
19565
]
- Oga get no Dolla Chop. Magha get last laugh.-
The Nigerian 419 Scam Gets Gypped in the Marsh
(Winter 2008)
[
13244
]
- Why Can't We Get Rid of Spam? (Fall 2007)
[
14457
]
- Phish Phactors(Spring 2007)
[
15318
]
- How Vendor-Specific Websites and Bogus Error Messages Can Destroy a Web Presence(Winter 2007)
[
14986
]
- What Really Happens When Your SYSAD Sanitizes Your Disk Drives? (August 2006)
[
17668
]
- Mag Stripe Mania: Credit Card Fraud and the Right Hand Rule of Physics (Spring 2006)
[
25602
]
- Malware's Second Coming (Winter 2006)
[
13929
]
- Mutual Authentication, Plastic, and Phishing (Fall 2005)
[
13808
]
- ROI vs. OSA: Return-on-Investment vs. Orange Suit Avoidance (Spring 2005)
[
1270
]
- Why Wireless Networks are Insecure? (Winter 2005)
[
2328
]
- Defense-in-Depth: Hardening the BIOS (Fall, 2004)
[
11883
]
- Practical Hints for Password
Protection (Spring, 2004)
[
18181
]