Political News with a Personal Touch

Inconspicuous Personal Computer Protection with Touch-Mouse

We present a hassle-free personal information protection design that continuously monitors user identity with a Microsoft touchmouse [1] under a windows-based computer environment. This is the first design which investigates the relationship between time-indexed pressure map trajectories extracted from a touch-mouse and user behavior patterns categorized by common mouse action primitives. This ...

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Political News Indexer

In and around Washington D.C. today, one of the hottest buzzwords flying around is “digital government.” Millions of people are logging on to the web every day to get informed about, and get involved in the political process. They can register to vote, fill out their tax forms, join a grassroots campaign, donate money to political causes, read the news, read opinions, and voice their own for ev...

Valet Services: Improving Hidden Servers with a Personal Touch

Location hidden services have received increasing attention as a means to resist censorship and protect the identity of service operators. Research and vulnerability analysis to date has mainly focused on how to locate the hidden service. But while the hiding techniques have improved, almost no progress has been made in increasing the resistance against DoS attacks directly or indirectly on hid...

Distributing News and Political Influence

Mass media affect both who receives political information, and what information is received. This influences policy formation since politicians tend to favor informed voters and well covered issues. Politicians do so for good reasons, not only are well informed voters more likely to vote than uninformed voters,1 but also more likely to vote for the candidate who furthers their interests.2 Voter...