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Evidence based policing (of booters)
“Booters” (they usually call themselves “stressers” in a vain attempt to appear legitimate) are denial-of-service-for-hire websites where anyone can purchase small scale attacks that will take down a...
View ArticleSecurity economics course
Back in 2015 I helped record a course in security economics in a project driven by colleagues from Delft. This was launched as an EDX MOOC as well as becoming part of the Delft syllabus, and it has...
View ArticleInterop: One Protocol to Rule Them All?
Everyone’s worried that the UK Online Safety Bill and the EU Child Sex Abuse Regulation will put an end to end-to-end encryption. But might a law already passed by the EU have the same effect? The...
View Article2023 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
WEIS 2023, the 22nd Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, will be held in Geneva from July 5-7, with a theme of Digital Sovereignty. We now have a list of sixteen accepted papers; there...
View ArticleWill GPT models choke on their own exhaust?
Until about now, most of the text online was written by humans. But this text has been used to train GPT3(.5) and GPT4, and these have popped up as writing assistants in our editing tools. So more and...
View ArticleSecurity and Human Behaviour 2023
The Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour is happening right now in Carnegie-Mellon University and I’ll be liveblogging it in followups to this post. The participants’ papers are here, while the...
View ArticleThe Pre-play Attack in Real Life
Recently I was contacted by a Falklands veteran who was a victim of what appears to have been a classic pre-play attack; his story is told here. Almost ten years ago, after we wrote a paper on the...
View ArticleWEIS 2023 – Liveblog
I’m at the 22nd Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in Geneva, and will be liveblogging the sessions in the followups to this post. Links to previous editions of WEIS, along with...
View ArticleExtending transparency, and happy birthday to the archive
I was delighted by two essays by Anton Howes on The Replication Crisis in History Open History. We computerists have long had an open culture: we make our publications open, as well as sharing the...
View ArticleHacktivism, in Ukraine and Gaza
People who write about cyber-conflict often talk of hacktivists and other civilian volunteers who contribute in various ways to a cause. Might the tools and techniques of cybercrime enable its...
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