[Cryptography] Interesting new article by Ross Anderson...

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Tue Jun 3 07:27:48 EDT 2014


on surveillance, privacy, network effects, and whole bunch of related stuff:

http://weis2014.econinfosec.org/papers/Anderson-WEIS2014.pdf

I think the paper needs some tightening - some of the examples may be a bit far-fetched, or maybe valid but in need of more justification - but overall it's of a piece with Anderson's classic work on how economics makes it very hard to justify "obvious" security measures.
                                                        -- Jerry



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