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Wherever you go, there you are….

June 11, 2015 Uncategorized Comments Off on Wherever you go, there you are….

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.06311v1.pdf

There is a lot of unused power and cleverness out there right now.  I don’t think that this is a new thing, but rather that the tools are better, getting them out and available is easier.  It’s entirely possible to track a person via their wireless/wifi access, but its not anywhere as easy (or pretty) as what you see on CSI.  You may be dealing with multiple networks, multiple sources you have to go through to get data.  It is, quite nearly, an impossible task for a human person to tackle without the support of computer driven search software, and even then, if a person is crossing lines, if they are moving between networks for one reason or another, it adds levels of complexity that may take days to solve.

Cybercrime and Transparency

February 21, 2015 future, Writing Comments Off on Cybercrime and Transparency

 

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Obama Signs Executive Order Encouraging Private-Sector Companies To Share Cyber Security Information

Transparency is creeping ever closer.  I know people online bitch and moan about the lack thereof, but the truth of the matter seems to be that, inch by inch, policy by policy, transparency is seeping into our lives (whether we like it or not).  President Obama recently signed an executive order regarding the sharing of information between the govt. and private corporations with an eye towards combating cybercrime in a more wholesale fashion, which (for a change) pushes the latest steps in airing our undergarments to governmental/corporate collaboration (rather than exploring the boundaries of personal liberties).

But is a monolithic front to cybercrime really the most ideal solution?  Hackers (the really l33t ones at least) seem to be individualists, they have target preferences, unique ways of looking at problems that might not be easy to defend against as a single data-crunching system.  There is a certain amount of nimbleness required, which is why the bounty system (where corporations pay a bounty to programmers for each bug or hack reported and proven) seems to be as effective as it is, rather than engaging rooms full of people combing through the code.

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