An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground 7: Dissecting the Legislation

Posted by david b. on June 18, 2013

Completing his Shmoocon presentation, aestetix singles out specific country-based legislation regarding name policies, and takes questions from the audience. Our last myth from Adam here: we are currently fixing this through legislation. South Korea did this back in 2003 (see image below). So, South Korea,...

Posted by david b. on June 17, 2013

An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground 6: Names Policies of Google and Facebook

This section outlines the way services like Google and Facebook currently go about handling user names and pseudonyms. There’ve been some updates and changes to this policy of Google. The new policy: “You can...

Posted by david b. on June 16, 2013

An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground 5: Can We Trust “Identity Providers”?

Subjects covered in this part of aestetix’s presentation include trust in terms of online names specificity, and “identity providers” like Facebook and Google. Myth #3: we cannot trust anyone who does not...

Posted by david b. on June 14, 2013

An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground 4: Legal Names and Cyberbullying

aestetix makes herein an emphasis on the correlation between the use of real names and pseudonyms online with people’s behavior on the Internet. Number two for the myths, thanks Adam: “We can stop cyberbullying...

Posted by david b. on June 13, 2013

An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground 3: The Essence of Identity

What aestetix highlights in this part of the presentation is the different aspects of one’s identity and its relation to nyms, nicknames, hacker handles, etc. Moving on a little bit and getting into some psychology...

Posted by david b. on June 12, 2013

An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground 2: Defining a “Nym”

aestetix dwells herein on the essence of name, nym, identity, and social network, and provides non-trivial examples thereof as well as their interrelations. So, myth #1, and there are 5 of these myths, just so you...

Posted by david b. on June 11, 2013

An Analysis of the Online Identity Battleground by aestetix

aestetix, a researcher of online identity issues and one of the enthusiasts that created the Nym Rights group, gave a great talk at Shmoocon 2013 event entitled “Beyond Nymwars” highlighting the various...

Posted by David Balaban on June 9, 2013

Questions and Answers with Dave Kennedy. Part 3

We get our final set of questions answered in the interview with Dave Kennedy, addressing DerbyCon, today’s infosec, and more security-related matters. - DerbyCon community and the number of speakers grow. What new...

Posted by David Balaban on June 6, 2013

Questions and Answers with Dave Kennedy. Part 2

In this part of our interview we asked David Kennedy about prospects of the Social-Engineer Toolkit, breakdown of attack vectors, and his plans for the...

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