Disarming defences

Disarming the Bid Sniper

Bid sniping is the most common strategy used in online auctions whereby the bidder places a bid in the closing seconds in order to win the auction. This denies other bidders the time to react and suppresses the final price. While bid sniping is beneficial to the winner, it disadvantages other bidders and the seller does not get the full amount of revenue s/he might otherwise have received in a ...

Disarming flu viruses.

Disarming a Paradox of Validity

Any theory of truth must find a way around Curry’s paradox, and there are well-known ways to do so. This paper concerns an apparently analogous paradox, about validity rather than truth, which JC Beall and Julien Murzi (“Two Flavor’s of Curry’s Paradox”) call the v-Curry. They argue that there are reasons to want a common solution to it and the standard Curry paradox, and that this rules out th...

Disarming Ooense to Facilitate Defense

Computer security has traditionally focused on system defense, concentrating on protection and recovery of victim machines. Moving from the opposite perspective, we propose a complementary approach that focuses on limiting the attacking capabilities of the hosts. Software design and implementation weaknesses usually are at the basis of computer ooensive capacities. Since software redesign or pa...

Disarming the mustard oil bomb.

Plants are attacked by a broad array of herbivores and pathogens. In response, plants deploy an arsenal of defensive traits. In Brassicaceae, the glucosinolate-myrosinase complex is a sophisticated two-component system to ward off opponents. However, this so-called "mustard oil bomb" is disarmed by a glucosinolate sulfatase of a crucifer specialist insect, diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella ...