Daily Archives: February 12, 2009

Current Event: Safety of Encryption from future Quantum Computers

All of us feel a certain kind of safety when we are dealing with credit cards, online banking and any other transaction or process which should be secure because we know that our personal information is protected by cryptographic systems. … Continue reading

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Current Event: Tracking BitTorrent

The Air Force Institute of Technology recently announced a new technique for “detecting and tracking illegal content transferred using the BitTorrent file-trading protocol.” The authors claim their technique differs from previous attempts, because it is does not change any of … Continue reading

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Security Review: Poker Game

A game of poker can be played for fun or money. The game itself uses low tech equipments, and the two main ones are a standard deck of cards and playing chips of different colors to represent different amounts of … Continue reading

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Current Event – Mexico Plans to Fingerprint Cell phone Users

According to a recent article, Mexico plans to start fingerprinting all cell phone users. A new law will give Mexico cell phone providers a year to create a database with their customer’s information including fingerprints. Providers would also have to … Continue reading

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Illegal file transfer using BitTorrent protocol

BitTorrent has been popularly used for transferring files illegally because it reduces a vast amount of networking bandwidth that would have been required. The way it works is that users can connect to each other directly to send and receive … Continue reading

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