The time has come to update the topic (and focus) of this blog. In the last few years my R&D work and research at HP Labs has been involving a variety of aspects, including security, identity management and privacy. Most of my posts have actually been reflecting this - hence my decision to update...
Thanks to HP Distinguished Technologist (his research is distinguished, but actually he's pretty young!) Joe Pato for inviting me to the program committee for IEEE BIdS this year. In addition to reading some excellent papers, mine was accepted. I presented it in Tampa yesterday, and got to stand...
Brits have been worried about the "eye in the sky"--the nearly ubiquitous camera system that monitors London. (Maybe they should be more worried about the insect-like drone of the same nickname: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580986/Microdrone-the-polices-tiny-eye-in-the-sky.html ...
Shotcode ( http://www.shotcode.com/ ) promotes mobile tagging as linking "people from offline materials to mobile internet pages". The process is simple. Point your mobile phone camera at the barcode on a physical object--person, place or thing--initiate the service, and find the salient web...
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StevenSimske
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12-14-2008
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Filed under: security printing, security, Track and Trace, privacy, Facebook, mobile camera, barcode, mobile tagging, camera, mobile, Shotcode, QR code
A recent article by Laura Milligan, called " 50 Firefox add-ons to achieve private and secure web surfing " provides a comprehensive list of add-ons for Firefox to achieve degreees of security and privacy whilst surfing the web: "Firefox is generally considered a secure web browser, but...
As reported by this article , the US Defence Department (DoD) is going to fund research on information sharing: “The Defense Department has awarded $7.5 million to six universities for a five-year research program to help solve the problem of sharing sensitive information while ensuring privacy and security...