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Ross Anderson: Searching For Evil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (' =JeffH ')
Wed Nov 21 23:16:04 2007
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk, cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
Reply-to: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:41:34 -0800
Of possible interest...
=JeffH
Ross Anderson: Searching For Evil
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7WlHhZUayUw
Google Tech Talks
August 23, 2007
ABSTRACT
Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics,
psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will
describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as
diverse as signals intelligence and sociology to search for artificial
communities.
Evildoers online divide roughly into two categories - those who don't want
their websites to be found, such as phishermen, and those who do. The latter
category runs from fake escrow sites through dodgy stores to postmodern Ponzi
schemes. A few of them buy ads, but many set up fake communities in the hope
of having victims driven to their sites for...
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