by Gus Uht on Jan 31, 2019 | Tags: Opinion, Security
There are millions of viruses, etc., in the wild today. Countless new ones are devised by black-hat hackers all the time. In order to proactively defend against new exploits, some white-hatters seek out or create weaknesses or vulnerabilities and then devise fixes for them. However, in some cases, such as Spectre, fixes are not readily apparent, either to the inventor or the vendor of the target software or hardware. Regardless of the existence of a fix or not, the question arises as to what to publicize or disclose about the vulnerability. We argue that no public disclosure should be made at all, until and unless the exploit appears in the wild.
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by T. N. Vijaykumar on Apr 23, 2018 | Tags: Conference, Opinion
We need a rubric for reviews to ensure our review process is fair.
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by Simha Sethumadhavan on Mar 12, 2018 | Tags: Opinion, Security
Works that describe defenses are often harder to publish than papers that demonstrate attacks. This blog post provides some insight on why this may be the case.
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by Srilatha Manne on Feb 23, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Interdisciplinary, Opinion, Vision
Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. He observed that humans are not “rational’ creatures and that our behavior is impacted by how we react to the world. People have a myriad of biases that influence how we think...
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by Kathryn S. McKinley on Feb 19, 2018 | Tags: Conference, Diversity, Opinion
Inclusiveness is not limited to gender and race. The more our community can limit bias in all its aspects, the more inclusive our community will be, and the more people will want to join it and stay. All of us, our research, and society will benefit.
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