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By Eugene H. Spafford, with assistance by Simson Garfinkel John Rischard Rice, a leading scientist and educator, died at home on Jan. 7, 2024. Rice was the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and a professor of mathematics at Purdue University. Rice was born June 6, 1934, in Tulsa, OK, to Margaret […]
Computing pioneer and ACM Fellow William A. Wulf died on March 10, 2023, in Charlottesville, VA, USA. He was 83.
Increased attention to cybersecurity has not resulted in improved cybersecurity.
Institutional Review Boards and Your Research
Researchers in computer science departments throughout the U.S. are violating federal law and their own organization's regulations regarding human subjects research—and in most cases they don't even know it.
AFF: A New Format For Storing Hard Drive Images
Most forensic practitioners work with just one or a few disks at a time. A wife might bring in her husband’s laptop for imaging a few days before she files for divorce. Police might raid a drug dealer’s apartment and seize a PC that’s used for contacting suppliers. In these cases it is common practice […]
Risks of social security numbers
The problem with social security numbers today is that some organizations are using these ubiquitous numbers for identification, others are using them for authentication, and still others are using them for both. I call up my bank, tell them my account number and ask them for a balance. Just to make sure that I am really who I claim to be, my bank asks for my SSN—as if this is a number that is some kind of secret that we share.
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