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As Stephen Katz, former CISO of Citibank, once said, "Controls don't slow the business down; like brakes on a car, controls allow you to go faster."

Through DRM technologies, consumers engaging in electronic commerce could grant vendors and suppliers a license to access and utilize certain aspects of the consumers’ data. This would enable a consumer to grant a read/write license to some creditors, perhaps as a function of a mortgage agreement, and provide a read-only license to a limited subset of the data for simple transactions such as shipping agreements and online orders. Such a license would empower consumers to prevent entities from misusing or reselling consumer information.

Q: What is myNetWatchman? A: myNetWatchman collects, analyzes and reports malicious access attempts to ISPs, who can then take action against the offending machines. [Back to top] Q: How does it work? A: A small client-side application runs as a background application on your system; reading your firewall logs, and creating near-real-time reports that are relayed to the myNetwatchman servers for analysis. [Back to top]

Financial Cryptography

Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible?