Should we be Good Samaritans?

Good science? We should all be asking

Objectivity is a central tenet of the scientific process. That is, in order for science to be a successful tool for understanding the nature of reality it must be free from bias. This idea is so core to science that cases of explicit bias (e.g., data fabrication and false reporting of results) are both mystifying and sensational. In principle and (we hope) in practice, instances of bias can be ...

Contributory Infringers and Good Samaritans

I. Placing Contributory Infringement Doctrine in the Context of Tort Law ............................................................................ 3 II. Tort Law’s Reasons for Imposing the Duty to Control on Others..................................................................................... 6 A. Control ............................................................................ 8 B....

Should we all be vegetarians?

What Should a Good Security Model Be?

In this article we survey a number of security models – which range from the first models to newly proposed approaches – in an attempt to answer the question of what we want our security model to be. The emphasis of this work is not on past or current security models, but rather on new approaches that have been proposed in the literature but have not yet found their way to the end user. The mod...

Quantum networks: where should we be heading?

Quantumkey distribution network has become a reality in practical environment. Quantum repeaters have been explored in various physical systems and their combinations. For practical use of them, these newparadigmsmust be combinedwith existing or emerging infrastructures of communication and security systems. In this article, we discussed howquantumnetwork can be combinedwith modern cryptographi...