MicroID is a deployed Internet standard designed for use as a lightweight, decentralized identity primitive in web applications and communities. This study presents the standard’s specification and deployment, and analyzes the security and privacy of MicroID, describing attacks that can be used to compromise the privacy of its users. Although it has been described by its designers as privacy-pr...

For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of go to statements in the programs they produce. More recently I discovered why the use of the go to statement has such disastrous effects, and I became convinced that the go to statement should be abolished from all "higher level" programming languages (i.e. ...

We consider what natural language explanations are required to present a formalism. We desire to be as complete as possible, leaving nothing implicit, and yet to keep the natural language to a minimum, moving as quickly as possible away from informal explanations and into the formalism. We also try to keep the informal explanation as independent as possible of the formalism being presented. We ...

In this paper, we question the common practice of assigning security impact ratings to OS updates. Specifically, we present evidence that ranking updates by their perceived security importance, in order to defer applying some updates, exposes systems to significant risk. We argue that OS vendors and security groups should not focus on security updates to the detriment of other updates, but shou...

This paper discusses various disadvantages of having a program committee meeting.

This paper advocates a different approach to reduce routing convergence—side-stepping the problem by avoiding it in the first place! Rather than recomputing paths after temporary topology changes, we argue for a separation of timescale between offline computation of multiple diverse paths and online spreading of load over these paths. We believe decoupling failure recovery from path computation...

The success of Voice-over-IP technology will crucially depend on the provision of a certain level of perceptual speech quality. In this paper we demonstrate that keeping as much corrupted speech data as possible results in a major step towards this goal. To this end, we explore the combination of two key factors which influence the speech quality as perceived by the user: networking mechanisms ...

Background: For medical students, the selection of a specialty is one of the most critical decisions to be made. On a personal level, it determines lifetime career achievements and, for the community, it directly affects the outcome of public health programs. The aim of this study was to investigate which factors were more important among Iranian residents when considering a specialty. Methods:...

Talent identification (TI) is a popular and hugely important topic within sports performance, with an ever-increasing amount of resources dedicated to unveiling the next sporting star. However, at present, most TI processes appear to select high-performing individuals at the present point in time, as opposed to identifying those individuals with the greatest capacity to improve. This represents...