Ross Andersson söker efter ondska
En av mina stora idoler på säkerhetsfronten, forskaren Ross Andersson har hälsat på Google och hållit en presentation. Presentationen Searching for Evil finns på YouTube och är väl värd att titta på:
Sammanfattningen på YouTube förklarar vad presentationen handlar om:
Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as diverse as signals intelligence and sociology to search for artificial communities.
Evildoers online divide roughly into two categories - those who don’t want their websites to be found, such as phishermen, and those who do. The latter category runs from fake escrow sites through dodgy stores to postmodern Ponzi schemes.