Category Archives: Internet Consumer Identity
Wrap-up of this year’s WEIS
This year’s Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS2010) enlightened us about Identity, privacy, and the insecurity of the financial payment system, just to name a few presentaitons. Continue reading
How Important Is Your EMail Address To You?
Really it’s not clear to me if this is a generational thing or what, people tell me that email addresses are no longer that important to them, what with MySpace, FaceBook, and the like. Others just use SMS, where their … Continue reading
Ole asks a great question
[not unusual for Ole, by the way.] Why does security have to be so complicated? Now knowing Ole as I do, this is of course rhetorical, but it does remind me of two conversations I’ve had. One was a long … Continue reading
Paypal follow-up
Some people wonder whether the situation with PayPal is that bad. Well, at least the phishing part is. Today’s mail included this little gem from points unknown pretending to be PayPal: Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited! [...] [Link … Continue reading
A lesson in transitive trust
Growing up in the New York area in the 1970s, one never really paid attention to all the crime that occurred. There just was so much of it. Even when I lived in California, while a murder would make the … Continue reading
