Author Archives: ezwelty

Security Review: UW Parking Enforcement

Posted on March 13, 2009 by ezwelty

The parking at the University of Washington has always been a deadly game of cat and mouse between driver and parking enforcement. There are limited parking resources on campus, and parking enforcement wants to make sure that they are maximizing … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Air Force Engineers develop BitTorrent sniffer

Posted on March 13, 2009 by ezwelty

Original article: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/02/airforce-engineers-develop-bittorrent-sniffer.ars The Air Force Institute of Technology has a new method for passive BitTorrent tracking. The system attempts to read the header of BitTorrent packets, and compare the hash in the packet to a known set of bad … Continue reading →

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Current Event: racial profiling no more effective than random screening

Posted on February 6, 2009 by ezwelty

In “Study: racial profiling no more effective than random screen”, ArsTechnica reports on a new study by William Press, who claims that using profiling at security checkpoints such as airports is not effective in catching threats. The ineffectiveness, according to … Continue reading →

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UW CSE Resources

Posted on February 5, 2009 by ezwelty

As an undergraduate student in the computer science department, there are a number of computing resources available for use. A number of these resources are through the web browser, and have private, personal information associated with them (for instance, MyCSE). … Continue reading →

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