Creating a Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom in the Neighborhood: Keystroke Eavesdropping on Multi-User Systems

A multi-user system usually involves a large amount of information shared among its users. The security implications of such information can never be underestimated. In this paper, we present a new attack that allows a malicious user to eavesdrop on other users’ keystrokes using such information. Our attack takes advantage of the stack information of a process disclosed by its virtual file with...

Peeping Hals

The field of artificial intelligence, broadly defined as the study and practice of designing intelligent agents, is at least six decades into its existence as a formal discipline. Sometimes called “computational” or “synthetic” intelligence, AI borrows from and informs a wide variety of subjects, including philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, statistics, economics, and law. Techni...

Peeping Painless Proptosis.

DR. XIAO CHI ZHANG: A 92-year-old woman with dementia was brought to the emergency department (ED) from a nursing home for headache and “left eye bulge” after falling backward, striking her head on the ground. While the review of systems was limited due to the patient’s baseline dementia, she only reported occipital headache, left knee pain and denied any eye pain, changes in her vision and sta...

Tom.

Tom Reid meets Tom Bayes: A defense of common sense

Thomas Reid is often misread as defending common sense, if at all, only by relying on illicit premises about God or our natural faculties. On these theological or reliabilist misreadings, Reid makes common sense assertions where he cannot give arguments. This paper attempts to untangle Reid’s defense of common sense by distinguishing four arguments: (a) the argument from madness, (b) the argume...