Collaborate Disseminate
Interesting research: "You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, and Gianluca Stringhini. Abstract: Metadata are associated to most of the informa… Continue reading Identifying People by Metadata
Interesting research: "You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, and Gianluca Stringhini. Abstract: Metadata are associated to most of the information we produce in our daily interactions and communication in the digital world. Yet, surprisingly, metadata are often still categorized as non-sensitive. Indeed, in the past, researchers and… Continue reading Identifying People by Metadata
The goal here is to prevent identification of the users and their data. Is it a good idea to partition my database into multiple ones, one for each kind of sensitive data, hiding the links between them?
At first it seems tha… Continue reading Partitioning database to enhance security/anonymity?
Interesting research: "The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics," by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked identities is a major problem in security. Curre… Continue reading Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements
Interesting research: "The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics," by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked identities is a major problem in security. Current memory-detection techniques cannot be used as they require prior knowledge of the respondent’s true identity. Here, we report a novel technique for detecting faked identities based… Continue reading Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements
Is it possible to use card access readers for something other than physical access? I’ve been reading about Wiegand and OSDP protocols and it looks like the hardware is all based on that (with some proprietary aspects for the… Continue reading Using Access Readers for software access
A friend of mine claims that it is possible to identify every anonymous call (prepaid, skype, etc) only using voice recognition. However the scientific literature which I’ve read so far is ambiguous, i.e. if you apply voice r… Continue reading Is it possible to identify mobile phone user with voice recognition
This acoustic technology identifies individuals by their ear shapes. No information about either false positives or false negatives…. Continue reading Yet Another Biometric: Ear Shape
Police in the UK were able to read a fingerprint from a photo of a hand: Staff from the unit’s specialist imaging team were able to enhance a picture of a hand holding a number of tablets, which was taken from a mobile phone, before fingerprint experts were able to positively identify that the hand was that of Elliott Morris…. Continue reading Lifting a Fingerprint from a Photo
Interesting research: "’Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?’ Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. W… Continue reading COPPA Compliance