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Hacking, Espionage, and Surveillance The subject of this lecture is the surveillance of American citizens by a foreign government through cyber means. In this lecture, you’ll learn about three aspects

Biometrics: Eyes, Fingers, Everything. In a post-9/11 world, we want to link the biographic information we have available to us about risks associated with an individual to a verifiable biometric

The Problem of Identity on the Network Type the query “WHOIS” into a search engine, and you will see at least a half dozen links offering services that will, in theory, help you identify the people behind

Circuits and Symbols In this article, we’ll look at electronic circuits, that is, interconnections of electronic components. As you recall, in the last article, we looked at a particular electronic component,

Drones, Drones Everywhere. Manufacturers call them unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—or, more grandly, unmanned aircraft systems (UASs)—but the rest of the world calls them drones. As drone applications

Under Observation: The Panopticon Effect. British philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed erecting a hotel, or a jail, in circular form—with a watchman at the center and the resident guests on the periphery.

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Electricity and Electronics The most obvious reason for learning about modern electronics is that electronic devices are ubiquitous in our world. Consider some of the things you use that are electronic:

Some Problems with Privacy Our current privacy rules are simply not up to the task of anticipating and accommodating every demand for interpretation and application presented to them in the privacy debate.

Of Viruses, Botnets, and Logic Bombs The first known virus to infect a personal computer was named Brain.A.It was developed by two Pakistani brothers and was initially detected in January 1986. The virus

Big Data’s Shadow Every click you take in cyberspace can be tracked, your cell phone broadcasts your geolocation, and all of your purchases and phone calls are cataloged somewhere. Taken together, this

The Five Gateways of Internet Vulnerability As we discussed in the last lecture, the logical structure of cyberspace is a web-like one that is both a virtue and a vice. It’s a virtue because it allows

The U.S. Spy Network in Action. The big intelligence organizations that you are probably familiar with— the CIA and the NSA—are only two of at least 17 standalone offices of what we call the Intelligence

Every minute of every day, roughly 3 million Google searches are performed. In the same minute, 12 websites are hacked. The scope of the Internet is immense, and we can’t truly understand cyber

Failing to Connect the Dots on 9/11. In October 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed into law Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation that established a new framework for American policy, mandating

Thomas J. Lee, one of the most bearish stock strategists on Wall Street, is feeling a lot more optimistic about the prospects for bitcoin. The cryptocurrency could reach $6,000 by the middle of 2018, according

The price of the digital currency Bitcoin Cash sustained its upward trajectory and surpassed the $700 mark on Aug. 18. Heading into the weekend trading sessions, the cryptocurrency posted a more than twofold

An ICO is a recently emerged concept of crowdfunding projects in the cryptocurrency and Blockchain industries. 1. What is an ICO? ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. It’s an event, sometimes referred

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