ISPIA Distinguished Lecture Series

We will discuss the basic principles behind active deception, and its application in some interesting and technically difficult problem domains.

Whether through the use of efiling, ODR, electronic case management or any other number of technological innovations, courts  across the country and around the world are turning towards information technology to streamline the judicial process and, hopefully, make it more efficient and accessible. Such an undertaking should however take into account a series of factors often overlooked such as how technology will influence our relationship with the legal system and how the data and metadata generated through the use of such technologies should be controlled and protected. This lecture will focus on the importance of these issues and how they need to be addressed if we wish to go forward with the modernisation of the judicial process through the implementation of cyberjustice solutions.

Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with both the advent  of Online Social Networks and a significant amount of publicity related to privacy. For the last few years we have been examining the leakage of privacy on the Internet: how information related to individual users is aggregated as they browse seemingly unrelated Web sites.  I will present results from these studies.

I will argue that hacking uncovers and helps to understand (and teach) fundamental issues that go to the heart of Computer Science as we know it, and will try to formulate several such fundamental principles which I have learned from hacker research.

When will we be secure? Nobody knows for sure -- but it cannot happen before commercial security products and services possess not only enough functionality to satisfy customers' stated needs, but also sufficient assurance of quality, reliability, safety, and appropriateness for use. Such assurances are lacking in most of today's commercial security products and services. Dr. Snow discusses paths to better assurance in Operating Systems, Applications, and Hardware through better development environments, requirements definition, systems engineering, quality certification, and legal/regulatory constraints. He also gives some examples.