Information Security and Digital Liberalism
Over the years, technology experts have often stated that policymakers would irreparably break the web, if they got the chance. Jeremiah Grossm makes a strong case that the web needs to be broken, if we value our privacy. Most security and privacy issues exists due to the way browsers operate.
The ease with which [...]
One of the fears of Alexis de Tocqueville was the diminishing of the democratic society. While the formal foundations of democracy stand strong, the society that holds it alive simply vanishes. Exactly this is one of the major problems of our time.
Democracy is not only about having a just constitution and an elected government. [...]
Dit artikel verscheen eerder op Joop.nl op 4 februari 2013 en werd geschreven in samenwerking met Jeroen Slobbe en Bas Wallage.
Plato vroeg zich 2500 jaar geleden al af waarom wij regels en wetten nodig hebben. Ten eerste stelde Plato hebben we regels nodig om de orde te handhaven. Echter zo [...]
In 2001, Ross Anderson wrote an iconic paper which caused the birth of the field of security economics. Besides introducing this now fundamental part of the security profession, it also contains certain interesting insights on the market of security products. Most [...]
Dit artikel verscheen eerder in de DEMO jaargang 29 editie 2 en werd geschreven in samenwerking met Jeroen Slobbe en Bas Wallage.
Elke keer als wij de term ‘positieve discriminatie’ horen, volgt de nodige discussie. Dit komt doordat de ladingen van beide woorden lijnrecht tegenover elkaar staan. Discriminatie is naar zijn [...]
Dit artikel verscheen eerder op Joop.nl op 18 januari 2013 en werd geschreven in samenwerking met Jeroen Slobbe en Bas Wallage.
Na het tragische overlijden van internetpionier Aaron Swartz is de discussie over Open Access weer opgebloeid. Open Access komt voort uit de nieuwe [...]
At the RSA Conference Europe 2012, Joshua Corman gave a Key Note talk on the question whether security is getting better. To his opinion, the answer is no: we are focussing on the wrong issues with the wrong tools. Instead of following industry best practices [...]
A couple of days ago, it became clear that Nokia is decrypting HTTPS traffic originating from its Xpress smartphone browser. It becomes more common for mobile browsers to use proxy servers to optimise websites, such that the browsing experience on a mobile device becomes much faster. However, the encryption used for HTTPS communication foils [...]
Dit artikel verscheen eerder op Joop.nl op 1 januari 2013 en werd geschreven in samenwerking met Jeroen Slobbe en Bas Wallage.
Bijna alle politieke partijen zijn het met elkaar eens, het huidige auteursrecht functioneert niet meer sinds de komst van het Internet. Over de oplossingen [...]
Where most people see all sorts of lovely functionalities when looking at a new product, the security professional sees possible ways of abuse. The security mindset is one of the key characteristics of engineers in the security field: we do not look for solutions, we see failures.
Many offices have some sort of key card-based [...]
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