Our next Web Science Tea will be on next Friday, 1-2p in KACB 3100. Steve Crain from CSE will lead the discussion on issues relating to security, trust and privacy. We hope to see you there.

Steve's slides are available here.

Burning Your Security at Three Ends: Privacy and Trust in the Age of Disclosure

Moderator: Steven P. Crain
Date: Friday 4/18/2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM

We will look at the issues relating to security, trust and privacy. We will discuss how security, trust and privacy are being melted from three directions: the human drive for community; the very attempts to improve security, trust and privacy; and, corporate profit.

Our discussion will be guided by several different security models. The economic model, which considers that we "buy" trust with "payments" of private information is currently very popular. We will also use models from information security (for example, the characteristics of a good password).

Here are a few short recent articles that you may optionally read in advance:

• R. West, The Psychology of Security, 2008.
• G. Conti, Could Googling Take Down a President?, 2008.