Technology Policy/Social Issues in Computing
- The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context (November, 2023)
[
202 ]
- Fatal Flaws in ChatAI as a Content Generator (September, 2023)
[
369 ]
- “Free” Online Services and Gonzo Capitalism (July, 2023) [
522 ]
- ChatGPT and AIChat Epistemology (May, 2023) [
2364 ]
- 911 Swatting, VoIP and Doxxing (March, 2023) [
1128 ]
- The Dictator's Dilemma and the "Sovereignty of Cyberspace" Delusion
(January, 2023) [
855 ]
- Social Media and the Banality of (Online) Crowds (November, 2022) [
1765 ]
- Ukraine Aftershocks (November, 2022)
- A Collapsing Academy IV: How Did Memory and Gag Laws Gain Admission?(September, 2022) [
2210 ]
- Prosperity Theology Goes Online: Will This Be A Fifth Great Awakening?(July, 2022) [
2841 ]
- The QAnon Phenomenon: The Storm Has Always Been Among Us (May, 2022) [
3347 ]
- The Collapsing Academy - III: Scientometrics and Metric Mania? (March, 2022)
[
3336 ]
- The State of The Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They? (January, 2022)
[
4711 ]
- The Online Disinformation Opera (December, 2021)
[
5346 ]
- The Collapsing Academy - II: Cancel Culture Goes to College(October, 2021)
[
5669 ]
- It's On: COVID-19, Risk Ecology, and Preparedness Tips (July, 2020)
- The Collapsing Academy - I: Unhinging from Core Principles (July, 2020)
[
5541 ]
- The Equifax Hack Revisited and Repurposed (May, 2020)
[
5540 ]
- New Perspectives on (Anti) Social Media (March, 2020)
[
5258 ]
- A Critical Look at the 2019 College Admissions Scandal (January, 2020)
[
7604 ]
- The Sokol Hoax: A 25-Year Retrospective (March, 2020)
[
6914 ]
- Moral Hazards in the Cyber Vulnerability Markets (December, 2019)
[
7607 ]
- Huawei, BIS and the IEEE: it’s Déjà vu all over again (October, 2019)
[
6836 ]
- Codes of Ethics in a Post-Truth World (March, 2019)
[
7008 ]
- Vehicle Telematics: The Good, Bad, and Ugly (January, 2019)
[
10024 ]
- Election Integrity 2018: Are We Better Off Than We Were in 2016 (November, 2018)
[
8775 ]
- The Genesis of Postmodern Disinformatics (November, 2018)
[
7638 ]
- The Online Trolling Ecosystem (August, 2018)
[
7765 ]
- Newton's Great Insight (July, 2018)
[
7801 ]
- Malice Domestic: The Cambridge Analytica Dystopia (May, 2018)
[
8273 ]
- Weaponizing Twitter Litter: Abuse-Forming Networks and Social Media (April, 2018)
[
7303 ]
- Trolling Pathologies (March, 2018)
[
7611 ]
- Bruce Schneier on Future Digital Threats (February, 2018)
[
7518 ]
- Disinformatics: The Discipline behind Grand Deceptions (January, 2018)
[
8182 ]
- Equifax and the Latest Round of Identity Theft Roulette (December, 2017)
[
9106 ]
- The New Science Wars (November, 2017)
[
8102 ]
- Net Neutrality Reloaded (October, 2017)
[
8033 ]
- Oh, What a Tangled
Web: Russian
Hacking, Fake News,
and the 2016 US
Presidential Election (September, 2017)
[
8438 ]
- Which Is More Dangerous—the Dark Web or the Deep State? (July, 2017)
[
8615 ]
- A Quick Take on Windows Security Evolution (May, 2017)
[
8374 ]
- Alt-News and Post-Truths in the “Fake News” Era (April, 2017)
[
9036 ]
- On the Problem of Cyber-Attribution(March, 2017)
[
8278 ]
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Fake News (February, 2017)
[
10708 ]
- Software Sophistry and Political Sleight of Hand (January, 2017)
[
8323 ]
- Chasing Elbridges Ghost: Digital Gerrymandering (November, 2016)
[
9823 ]
- Douglas Jones on Today's Voting Machines (October, 2016)
[
8424 ]
- Coda in the Key of F2654hD4 (September, 2016)
[
11263 ]
- The Polyanna Delusion (August, 2016)
[
8300 ]
- The Dictator's Dilemma (July, 2016)
[
9521 ]
- Attenuated FAQs (May, 2016)
[
8148 ]
- The Bogus Science Theorem (and the Junk Science Wager) (April, 2016)
[
8604 ]
- Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering (March, 2016)
[
10512 ]
- Secretocracy (February, 2016)
[
9417 ]
- Digital Politics 2016 (January 2016)
[
2375 ]
- What Price Gonzo Ethics? (December, 2015)
[
10676 ]
- The Dystory of Ahmed's Clock (November, 2015)
[
8563 ]
- Legislating Technology (Badly) (October, 2015)
[
10129 ]
- STEM Crazy (September, 2015)
[
8943 ]
- TSA: Mission Creep Meets Waste (August, 2015)
[
13403 ]
- A Farewell to Air Gaps - II (July, 2015)
[
10186 ]
- A Farewell to Air Gaps - I (June, 2015)
[
9862 ]
- What Makes A Good Column (May, 2015)
[
11416 ]
- Borderline Executive Disorder (April, 2015)
[
9542 ]
- Noirware (March, 2015)
[
11642 ]
- Cyber Chutzpah: The Sony Hack and the Celebration of Hyperbole (February, 2015)
[
11078 ]
- The $149 Gamble (January, 2015)
[
9125 ]
- Judson Rosebush on Graphics and Animation (December, 2014)
[
10110 ]
- Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors (November, 2014)
[
14032 ]
- Defending Against Big Dada (October, 2014)
[
13338 ]
- Sticky Wikis (September, 2014)
[
9816 ]
- The Future of Digital Money Laundering (August, 2014)
[
10440 ]
- Robert David Steele on OSINT (July, 2014)
[
12815 ]
- Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex (June, 2014)
[
11219 ]
- PII, the FTC, Car Dealers, and You (May, 2014)
[
12509 ]
- Scapegoat Politics and Mr. Snowden's Legacy (April, 2014)
[
12695 ]
- Reflections on STEM (March, 2014)
[
10967 ]
- Moral Hazards, Negative Externalities, and the Surveillance Economy (February, 2014)
[
14474 ]
- Privacy Informatics (January, 2014)
[
14113 ]
- The Intimidation Factor (December, 2013)
[
25195 ]
- Toxic Cookies (September, 2013)
[
14431 ]
- Through the PRISM Darkly (July, 2013)
[
13890 ]
- Computing Technology and Survivable Journalism (May, 2013)
[
13694 ]
- The SCDOR Hack: Great Security Theater in Five Stages (March, 2013)
[
16050 ]
- RFIDiocy: It's déjà vu all over again (January, 2013)
[
15205 ]
- Stratfor or Stratagainst (November, 2012)
[
13742 ]
- The Dumbing Down of SportPhishing (September, 2012)
[
14627 ]
- The OuijAmazon Desktop Metaphor (July, 2012)
[
12468 ]
- Breaking the Fourth Wall of Electronic Crime: Blame it on the Thespians (May, 2012)
[
14162 ]
- WikiLeaks and the Matter of Private Manning (March, 2012)
[
18178 ]
- Identity Theft and Financial Fraud: Some Strangeness in the Proportions (January, 2012)
[
17796 ]
- BRAP Forensics: Boutique Computer Activity Mining vs. Personal Privacy Management (June, 2008)
[
182259 ]
- Faith-Based Security (April, 2008)
[
22430 ]
- Credit Card Forensics (December, 2007)
[
130287 ]
- Better-than-Nothing Security Practices
(August, 2007)
[
20326 ]
- Hiding Data, Forensics and Anti-Forensics
(April, 2007)
[
247217 ]
- Fungible Credentials and 'Next Generation Fraud'
(December, 2006)
[
47975 ]
- Disk Wiping by any Other Name
(August, 2006)
[
145107 ]
- Phishing Mongers and Posers (April, 2006)
[
30556 ]
- Pernicious Ports (December, 2005)
[
135254 ]
- WiFi Attack Vectors (August, 2005)
[
178790 ]
- The Two Sides of ROI: Return-on-Investment vs. Risk-of-Incarceration (April, 2005)
[
37035 ]
- Wireless InFidelity II: Airjacking (December, 2004)
[
149627 ]
- Wireless InFidelity I: War Driving (July, 2004)
[
185636 ]
- Wading into Alternate Data Streams (April, 2004)
[
33882 ]
- SoBig, W32/Blaster and the Malware Month of the Millenium (December, 2003)
[
29082 ]
- The Discipline of Internet Forensics (August, 2003)
[
54470 ]
- Anonymizing the Net (April, 2003)
[
37376 ]
- Responsible Web Caching (September, 2002)
[
25885 ]
- Hijacking the Web (April, 2002)
[
31217 ]
- The Code Red Worm (November, 2001)
[
47460
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- E_Commerce: Business at the Speed of Sleet (August, 2001)
[
27158
]
- Caustic Cookies (April, 2001)
[
32312
]
- Digital Politics 2000 (Nov, 2000)
[
23683
]
- Predatory Disintermediation (May, 2000)
[
30656
]
- Social Security Numbers, Theft Identity, and the Web (November, 1999)
[
28805
]
- The Cost of Having
Analog Executives in a Digital World (August, 1999)
[
76882
]
- Y2k and Xday (May, 1999)
[
23319
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- Value-Added Publishing (January, 1999)
[
22298
]
- Who Won the Mosaic War? (October, 1998)
[
24887
]
- The Year 2000 Problem
and the New Riddle of Induction (March, 1998)
[
22481
]
- Watermarking Cyberspace (November, 1997)
[
23255
]
- The Communications
Decency Act, Informal Logic and the Wapnerization of Cyberspace (July, 1997)
[
18152
]
- Email: the good, the bad and the ugly (April, 1997)
[
11508
]
- Cyberspace 2000: Dealing with Information Overload (February, 1997)
[
18856
]
- Digital Politics (October, 1996)
[
26822
]
- Technology Policy in the Information Age (June, 1996)
[
53720
]
- HTML Compliance and the Return of the Test Pattern (February, 1996)
[
25636
]
- Maiden Voyage: Digital Villages and Cyberspace (November, 1995)
[
22483
]
- The 2012 Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Conference (Winter, 2013)
[
11041
]
- Bandwidth Bandits Old and New (Fall, 2012)
[
13388
]
- Online Gaming in the Jurassic Period
(Summer, 2012)
[
11039
]
- Digital Watermarking for Fun and Profit
(Spring, 2012)
[
12593
]
- Some Thoughts on the Art and Practice of Avoiding Identity Theft and Financial Fraud
(Winter, 2012)
[
12396
]
- Identity Theft and Financial Fraud - 2010 in Review
(Fall, 2011)
[
11911
]
- Cyberwarfare 2011: Let the Stuxnet Games Begin
(Summer, 2011)
[
14821
]
- Cablegate - Security Theater in Three Acts (give or take)
(Spring, 2011)
[
12892
]
- The Afghanistan War Diary Wikileak
(Winter, 2011)
[
12366
]
- Stuck on Stupid : Dumb Decisions in IT
(Fall, 2010)
[
12610
]
- PCI Insecurity and Life in a Shadow Economy
(Spring, 2010)
[
13069
]
- Are Your Web Bugs No-See-Ums?
(Winter, 2010)
[
14614
]
- Ways We Invite Identity Theft
(Fall, 2009)
[
12599
]
- RFID and Nuance
(Spring, 2009)
[
13119
]
- Defcon 16 Revisited
(Winter, 2009)
[
13174
]
- Digital Vaults, Crypts and Ossuaries
(Fall, 2008)
[
13454
]
- Security-Through-Obscurity: there's less to this than meets the eye
(Spring, 2008)
[
20081
]
- Oga get no Dolla Chop. Magha get last laugh.-
The Nigerian 419 Scam Gets Gypped in the Marsh
(Winter 2008)
[
13816
]
- Why Can't We Get Rid of Spam? (Fall 2007)
[
15076
]
- Phish Phactors(Spring 2007)
[
15880
]
- How Vendor-Specific Websites and Bogus Error Messages Can Destroy a Web Presence(Winter 2007)
[
15571
]
- What Really Happens When Your SYSAD Sanitizes Your Disk Drives? (August 2006)
[
18260
]
- Mag Stripe Mania: Credit Card Fraud and the Right Hand Rule of Physics (Spring 2006)
[
26174
]
- Malware's Second Coming (Winter 2006)
[
14473
]
- Mutual Authentication, Plastic, and Phishing (Fall 2005)
[
14378
]
- ROI vs. OSA: Return-on-Investment vs. Orange Suit Avoidance (Spring 2005)
[
1805
]
- Why Wireless Networks are Insecure? (Winter 2005)
[
2962
]
- Defense-in-Depth: Hardening the BIOS (Fall, 2004)
[
13000
]
- Practical Hints for Password
Protection (Spring, 2004)
[
18726
]