Laura Brandimarte Alessandro Acquisti Joachin Vosgerau Twitter transcript #weis2011 How does information related to past events and retrieved today get discounted? Why does neg valence receive more weight? #weis2011 how do we improve trustworthyness? #weis2011 “designers of modern tech do not understand human fallibility and design systems w/o taking them into account” < true #weis2011... Continue reading
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WEIS 2011 :: Session 2 :: Identity :: Social Networks, Personalized Advertising & Privacy Controls
Catherine Tucker Presentation [PDF] Catherine’s talk was really good. She handled questions well and is a very dynamic speaker. I’m looking forward to the paper. Twitter transcript #weis2011 Premise of the study was to see what impact privacy controls enablement/usage have on advertising. It’s an empirical study #data! #weis2011 click through rates DOUBLED for personalized… Continue reading
Herding [Fire]sheep
By now, many non-IT and non-Security folk have heard of Firesheep, a tool written by @codebutler which allows anyone using Firefox on unprotected networks to capture and hjijack active sessions to popular social media sites (and other web sites). The sidebar/extension puts an attactive and easy-to-understand GUI over a process that “real” security people have… Continue reading