Security and Human Behaviour – Session 8 Future

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Ross Anderson, Cambridge

Deception: Would personalising payment pages reduce small scale fraud?

How is being watched by humans different to being watched by software?

Blackstone: The law is the long march from status to contract. Are we now towards the end of the long march from honour codes to ubiquitous technical surveillance?

Dave Clark, MIT

Reactions to Prior Talks

A lot of the stories we tell are move/counter-move systems? Why are we in an equilibrium and it’s not that one side won? Perhaps it’s just that if one side won, the question is not interesting.

The way to reduce crime is not to build perfect systems, but to make sure crime doesn’t pay.

Peter Robinson, Cambridge

The Eyes Have It

There is something that can be done with eye gaze in detecting speakers’ state of mind.

Identifying people who are cognitively overloaded (e,.g. while driving, to reduce interupptions from navigation systems or the like).

Peter Swire, Ohio State

Tour of Projects

Encryption and globalisation paper, particularly the attempts by China and India to repeat the US mistakes.

Going Dark v. the Golden Access of Surveillance.

USvJones.com: Help judges by suggesting usable doctrine.

Are Hackers Inefficient?

The Right to Data Portability

Pretty Good De-identification

The Second Wave of Global Privacy Protection (Ohio State, Nov 2012) conference

Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon

Competition and Security

Does (can) competition increase security and/or privacy?

Hospitals are under incrasing pressure to invest in patient security and privacy.

In a more competitive healthcare market, there is evidence of more data breaches.

On most other measures, more competition increases quality.

Alma Whitten, Google

When is the Future?

The future is at most ten years from now. Meaningfully, five or ten years from now is the future, because things move so fast.

Technologists have a fair amount of power to build the future. But technologists are often taking their subtle direction from artists: particularly from science fiction.

Shows the “Expo” sequence from Iron Man 2. “I really want that interface”.

Some questions: Where are the boundaries? Who maintains it? Who pays for it?

Easy answers in the fiction (an eccentric techno-genius billionnaire), but if we want those tools for everyone these questions become more difficult to answer.

Current Mood: fascinated

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