Tech Risk & Security

A study was conducted to study the correlation between website usages and economy!! We now have all sorts of monitoring devices and data points that enable us to track human behavior. It is conveninet to believe some activities (like visiting a particular type of website) will affected by economy. But would this correlation substanitable ? giving the fact that the web content changes constantly and new websites are created daily? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7459055.stm

I read two news articles today. One on SCMP which reported that Intel hired anthropologist to study user behavior and shape their strategy. One on BBC Technology, which said ICANN plan to open up top-level domain names. The result would be that everyone could register their website name with ending ranging from .bank to .worm. They seemed unrelated but I wonder how people respond to an explosive growth top-level domain names. Top level domain names, like .com or .hk are limited and users accumulated a sense of trust after years usages. Will user trust citibank.bank more over citibank.bank ? or will user buy items from toyshop.com or toyshop.shop ? What is missing in the current Internet infrastructure, after 10 years of development, is trust? How ICANN's proposal to open up top-level domain is helping to built trust in cyberspace ? The current status of DNS is far from satisfactory and phishing attacks are launched daily exploiting this weakness. Opening up top-level domain name fo

There is a blog about Effects of ID theft. It is quite a good reference but the whole process of cleaning up ID theft only after you know your identity was comprised.

An article from Bloomberg News discussed how Google adjusted their web services with national cultures. In Thailand, they banned YouTue to show videos which offended King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In China, Google stopped offering Gmail to Chinese Citizen to avoid government demands for messages. To be able to stop user from using a specific web services, Google must rely on the programming codes. Now these codes with geo-sensitive information are used to build walls within Cyberspace, either due to political reason or to respect the natioanl cultures. The multinational enterprise is now taking the duty to fund the building of these walls using their codes. Cultural walls is not an entirely bad concept since a neigbhood enjoy more harmony when there are walls between them. Contrast this to Lawrence Lessig's "Code wants to be free" concept, we could see that multinational enterprises were using codes to control information flow. The force to from multinational enterprises is