Year: 2011
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Web Browser Security User Interfaces: Hard to Get Right and Increasingly Inconsistent
A great deal of online commerce, speech, and socializing supposedly happens over encrypted protocols. When using these protocols, users supposedly know what remote web site they are communicating with, and they know that nobody else can listen in. In the past, this blog has detailed how the technical protocols and legal framework are lacking. Today…
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Some Technical Clarifications About Do Not Track
When I last wrote here about Do Not Track in August, there were just a few rumblings about the possibility of a Do Not Track mechanism for online privacy. Fast forward four months, and Do Not Track has shot to the top of the privacy agenda among regulators in Washington. The FTC staff privacy report…
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CITP Visitors Application Deadline Extended to Feb 1st
The deadline for applications to CITP’s Visitors Program has been extended to February 1st. If you or someone you know is interested but has questions, feel free to contact me at sjs@princeton.edu The Center has secured limited resources from a range of sources to support visiting faculty, scholars or policy experts for up to one-year…
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RIP Bill Zeller
All of us here at CITP were saddened by the death of Bill Zeller, our respected and much-loved colleague. Bill was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science here at Princeton, who died last night due to injuries sustained in a suicide attempt. There has been a huge outpouring of sympathy for Bill, both at Princeton…
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Monitoring all the electrical and hydraulic appliances in your house
Dan Wallach recently wrote about his smart electric meter, which keeps track of the second-by-second current draw of his whole house. But what he might like to know is, exactly what appliance is on at what time? How could you measure that? You might think that one would have to instrument each different circuit at…