Richard Chirgwin reports: It’s easier to identify TOR users than they believe, according to research published by a group of researchers from Georgetown University and the US Naval Research Laboratory (USNRL). Their paper, Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries, is to be presented in November at November’s Conference on Computer and Communications…
Category: Misc
IL: Tollway web site to post names of scofflaws
Richard Wronski reports that Illinois is enacting the “name and shame” approach to those who don’t pay their fines. That approach is already used in Texas and New York: Motorists who use the Illinois Tollway but refuse to pay tolls and fines may already have collection agents chasing them, but by the end of the…
Fifty years ago today
Fifty years ago today, I wasn’t speaking to my parents. I was glued to the TV, angry at them that they had blocked me from going to Washington, D.C. for the march and demonstration in support of civil rights. The bi-racial couple across the street were going, and knowing that I was active in my…
My Dinner with General Alexander
Jennifer Granick writes: On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA’s activities“criminal” in the digital pages of the New York Times, so I thought it was particularly…