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Wikileaks to release emails from Stratfor hack 28 Feb 2012 | 08:51 am
In December, members of the Antisec wing of the collective Anonymous claimed to have downloaded the email spools of the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Today, Wikileaks held a press conference in...
A few Tweets 4 Feb 2012 | 05:00 am
I joined Twitter at the end of December 2011 because I realized that I was using my computer less and less, and my smart phone more and more, relatively speaking — and I was using my phone to find and...
Watermarking molecules 28 Jan 2012 | 05:00 am
I’ve posted twice about Anonymous hacking into Stratfor — and, more generally, their hacktivism has been making bigger and bigger waves. CNN recently ran a fairly positive story on the support hackti...
Ian Stewart’s Mathematics of Life 21 Jan 2012 | 05:00 am
This post is based on a book review I recently wrote on The Mathematics of Life, by Ian Stewart. A final version of the review will appear in a future issue of SIGACT News. Please feel free to downlo...
My own information was just compromised in the Zappos hack 17 Jan 2012 | 05:27 am
In an unfortunate coincidence, as a thematic followup to my previous post on hacking, a “throwaway” email I use, and partial credit card information of mine, has just been compromised in the recent ha...
Password analysis from the Stratfor hack 14 Jan 2012 | 05:00 am
I will return to blogging about theoretical computer science and algorithm-related mathematics next week, but I wanted to take a few minutes today to mention a rare research opportunity that has arise...
Polygon rectangulation wrap up 7 Jan 2012 | 05:00 am
Tying up loose ends from my three posts in December about rectangulation of orthogonal polygons. Derrick Stolee requested in a comment a resolution of the computational complexity of the 3D version o...
“Shadow CIA” apparently stored credit card information in cleartext 28 Dec 2011 | 09:32 am
I had not planned to post until January, but I decided to say something briefly about a news story that relates to one of the first posts on this blog, about security firm HBGary’s insecure storage of...
Happy holidays! 21 Dec 2011 | 01:00 pm
I would like to wish a very happy holiday season to all the readers of this blog. I am excited about the research I have planned in 2012, and I hope you are even more excited about your own year-to-c...
Polygon rectangulation, part 3: Minimum-length rectangulation 17 Dec 2011 | 05:00 am
In this third (and final) post on polygon rectangulation, I will consider how to find the rectangulation of minimum total length for an orthogonal polygon. In part one of this short series, we consid...
