Posts from August 2013

DNS Fails the NYTimes

dns security August 27, 2013 at 08:50 PM Emin Gün Sirer
DNS continues to be a weak, fragile system.

NSA Pickup Lines

privacy surveillance nsa creepy silly August 27, 2013 at 02:58 PM Emin Gün Sirer
NSA uses its considerable intelligence apparatus for spying on its loved ones.

Stack Ranking is Not the Cause of Microsoft's Troubles

microsoft August 24, 2013 at 07:40 AM Emin Gün Sirer
Empires fall for many reasons, their internal ranking procedures are typically not the main culprit.

A Big Dud on Big Data

big data definition August 18, 2013 at 04:43 PM Emin Gün Sirer
The NYTimes asks if Big Data is a big dud, but frames the issue in the worst possible way.

Cost of Surveilling the Cloud

snowden privacy surveillance nsa August 09, 2013 at 02:43 PM Emin Gün Sirer
There is now an official estimate on the costs of broadly spying on the entire cloud.

Metadata is in the eye of the beholder

snowden privacy surveillance nsa August 02, 2013 at 06:20 AM Emin Gün Sirer
Why the word "metadata" is meaningless.

How the Snowden Saga will End

snowden privacy surveillance nsa August 01, 2013 at 10:20 PM Emin Gün Sirer
A framework for reasoning about how the Snowden revelations will impact online society.