Web Camouflage: is this the future of the Internet?

In the future, will it be common for people to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, preferring to strategically add more content to the cloud as an elaborate diversion.

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/a-plausible-thought-about-the-future-safeguarding-privacy-with-deception/244826/

Who do you trust to tell you who to trust? | Agile Blog

The compromise of the DigiNotar Certificate Authority and the subsequent issuing of fraudulent SSL certificates, led to actual Man in the Middle attacks against Gmail users in Iran ...

http://blog.agilebits.com/2011/09/who-do-you-trust-to-tell-you-who-to-trust/

Fox-IT report on Diginotar

Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) 06/09/2011 03:08 Ouch - Around 300k unique IPs in DigiNotar OCSP logs for Google cert. Of these client IPs, 99% clients came from Iran http://t.co/DsOdJ0T

Wikileaks and the Law

legal issues raised by the publication of information from US diplomatic cables on the Wikileaks website, including the treatment of denial-of-service attacks under UK law and the position of UK internet service providers if asked to block allegedly harmful content

http://ipandit.practicallaw.com/1-504-3391

Surveillance

TRIPOLI—On the ground floor of a six-story building here, agents working for Moammar Gadhafi sat in an open room, spying on emails and chat messages with the help of technology Libya acquired from the West.


French technology firm Bull SA, installed the monitoring centre ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904199404576538721260166388.html#printMode

@TheEconomist, 05/09/2011 23:04

FOR all its decentralised charm, the internet remains a top-down affair when it comes to security. Every time you connect to a secure website it is parties anointed with authority from on high that tell you whether or not the site should be trusted. ...

The Economist (@TheEconomist) 05/09/2011 23:04 For all its decentralised charm, the internet remains a top-down affair when it comes to security http://t.co/VV7eQek

Happy New Year

Teaching for the 2011-2012 academic year starts today.

The slides for the first lecture are up as a quicktime movie.