Social engineering: The good guys strike back
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are exploring ways to make it harder for individuals to function on the Internet black market, which has a pronounced reputation-economy component that may probe an Achilles heel.
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Paolo hypothesizes a much-needed tool in a post yesterday, and a follow-up today.
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Social network firms reveal tools and technologies that aim to make the sites more than places to keep in touch.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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New masters of the universe--or creators of too much leverage?
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When the social discovery site turns members' most trivial actions into unfolding "News Feeds," users rebel, and the company races to quiet their anger. Both sides learn a hard lesson about the illusory nature of online privacy. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Scammers and hackers are targeting the human factor in system setups. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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Erudite miscreants can teach us the tricks of their trade, and how not to be tricked again.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Sometimes it pays to befriend an enemy...
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Researchers are working out the rules for a future code of social behaviour in human-robot interaction.
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Boosting the bottom line isn't always about cutting costs or improving distribution channels. One company found success by building a better online community.
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By Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 15--Good deeds hold more value than fat wallets in the tight weave of the Friendly Favors Web community.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.
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We all have a Mr. Hyde in us. Open source helps to protect the world (and ourselves) from that side.
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COMPUTERS able to bluff at poker have been created.  Past results help them hone their style. One of their South African creators told New Scientist: "They develop their own personalities." (c) 2007 Daily Record; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.