Peeping Tom and Lady Godiva

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.

Of gossips, eavesdroppers, and peeping toms.

A community physician questions the tendency in British medical ethics to concentrate on confidentiality to the exclusion of privacy, an essential element in the physician patient relationship. He draws upon views from various disciplines to develop the concept of privacy and deplores the lack of redress against breaches of privacy and confidentiality in English law. A BBC-TV documentary seri...