| quis custodiet ipsos custodes | 5. August 2003 |
| Security is always also a matter of public policy. At the other hand "pure mechanism" - like the concept "Askemos" - must be kept policy free. Here is the place to keep awareness. | |
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| The economy of crime. | 19. April 2008 | |||||||
Too often not considered: the benefits, which keep organised crime goin. | ||||||||
| Privacy as part of freedom - Privatsphäre als Teil der Freiheit | 15. November 2007 | |||||||
Sometimes some persons appear not to understand. - Manchmal scheinen manche Personen nicht zu verstehen. | ||||||||
| surveillance cameras seen as theater by expert | 7. August 2007 | |||||||
Steve Swain, who served for years with the London Metropolitan Police and its counter-terror operations, doubts the power of cameras to deter crime. | ||||||||
| The security risk of overreacting (or false positives) | 25. August 2006 | |||||||
Since "terror" makes it's way into the media, more politician become vary of a percieved "terrorist threat". And they draw consequences. Be prepared for some fun. | ||||||||
| Big Brother is watching you | 5. December 2005 | |||||||
Lately this needs to become it's own category. Again. | ||||||||
| Askemos re-invented | 22. November 2005 | |||||||
Professor Barbara Liskov has some ideas, which look like Askemos. Interesting: she also imagines provider consortias we are working for. | ||||||||
| Royal Society Issues "Adelphi Charter" on intellectual property | 17. October 2005 | |||||||
An international group of artists, scientists, lawyers, politicians, economists, academics and business experts authored their sugestions handing out intellectual property rights. | ||||||||
| Are IT-departments a security risk? | 16. September 2005 | |||||||
Question asked by information week. | ||||||||
| Softwarepatents in Europe | 28. February 2005 | |||||||
There's a pitty directive, which threatens Europe. | ||||||||
| US Senators propose new (!) law codifying a verifyable voting process | 28. February 2005 | |||||||
It actually suprises me that some people still believe that an election could be valid if is impossible to verify it. I've been under the impression that it had never been questioned. | ||||||||
| vulnerable and closed code | 6. September 2004 | |||||||
| Experts question integrity of proposed military e-voting scheme. | ||||||||
| Why broken DRM is bad for business. | 18. June 2004 | |||||||
| Cory Doctorow gave a talk on DRM at Microsoft, where he explains, why DRM done the wrong way hurts business and society. | ||||||||
| Security through Obscurity | 2. March 2004 | |||||||
| The first rule you need to deeply understand, before you start to rule anything yourself: Security Through Obscurity Doesn't Work. | ||||||||
| Ubiquity or Control (by Eric S. Raymonds) | 15. February 2004 | |||||||
| I just want to point you to http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/let-java-go.html , where ESR explains why central control simply doesn't scale to ubiquitious things like inf | ||||||||
| The problem with "central authorithy" - here as stolen cars. | 16. November 2003 | |||||||
| Master keys, secretely withhold when selling items, obviously violate the basic rule of right transfers in incorruptible systems and hence break the rights of the purhcaser. | ||||||||
| Cencorship vs. public security. | 8. October 2003 | |||||||
| Robert Carlson about the public security threats which can arise from well-meant regulation of knowledge which could also be abused... In this case biological technologies. | ||||||||
| infrastructure and economy | 15. August 2003 | |||||||
| For centuries wise rulers used to assign the task to oversee the construction and maintain infrastruture to the public authorities. Why? About the effects of deregulation... | ||||||||
| European "harmonization" on intellectual property | 11. August 2003 | |||||||
| While there is kind of european consensus concerning "intellectual property" it has indeed not been subject to "harmonization" - do we need it? | ||||||||
| anonymity | 6. August 2003 | |||||||
| The digital age lowers the cost of investigation. Does this take away the privacy rights of the individual or will law and moral have to promote responsible use? | ||||||||
| Draft RFC on public policy considerations | 5. August 2003 | |||||||
| http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-morris-policy-considerations-00.txt | ||||||||
| DMCA abuse | 5. August 2003 | |||||||
| The digital millenium copyright act draws consequences. Lexmark sues makers of compatible toner cartridge over intellectual property violation and circumvention of access control measurements. | ||||||||
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