Cracking down on oil dumping at sea

Cracking Down on Corporate Crime in Italy

Aerial Observations of Oil at Sea

Containment & Recovery of Oil Spills at Sea . Methods and Limitations .

The ultimate aim of any oil recovery operation at sea is to collect as much floating oil as is reasonably and economically possible. However, a review of past spills shows that rarely is more than 10% of spilled oil recovered from the sea surface. Although many methods of mechanical containment and recovery exist, each has its own limitations which affect the overall success of a recovery opera...

Challenging Oil Bioremediation at Deep-Sea Hydrostatic Pressure

The Deepwater Horizon accident has brought oil contamination of deep-sea environments to worldwide attention. The risk for new deep-sea spills is not expected to decrease in the future, as political pressure mounts to access deep-water fossil reserves, and poorly tested technologies are used to access oil. This also applies to the response to oil-contamination events, with bioremediation the on...

Weighing Down “The Unbearable Lightness of PIN Cracking” (Extended Version)⋆

Responding to the PIN cracking attacks from Berkman and Ostrovsky (FC 2007), we outline a simple solution called salted-PIN. A randomly generated salt value of adequate length (e.g. 128-bit) is stored on a bank card in plaintext, and in an encrypted form at a verification facility under a bank-chosen salt key. Instead of sending the regular user PIN, salted-PIN requires an ATM to generate a Tra...