Transcript Sex, Gambling, (Rock and Roll) Online Gambling in the USA:

Sex, Gambling, (Rock and Roll) Online
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Gambling in the USA: http://bit.ly/vFA07l
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Where is gambling legal? Why?
Is online gambling legal? Where?
Revenue? Security? Issues?
What about the world?
Porn in the USA: http://bit.ly/uzMcSU
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How much money? http://bit.ly/sWX8vC
COPA, COPPA, and CIPA
http://bit.ly/vEdITr
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COPA, COPPA, CIPA, CDA
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Communications Decency Act (1996)
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COPA (1998)
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Never took effect, first and fifth amendments
COPPA: children's online privacy protection
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Attempt to regulate porn, struck down
Section 230 still in force, immunity for ISPs
1998/2000, about privacy and 13-year old rule
FTC regulation, non-profit exemption
CIPA: Children's Internet Protection Act
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Internet filters required-schools/libraries (erate)
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Academic Porn Research
The intricacies of the elaborate system of traffic
arbitrage that have grown up around the world
of porn traffic direction on the web are way
beyond the scope of this blog post, but it's
possible that the rest of the media world could
learn a thing or two from the way that for-pay
adult sites have created a seething ecosystem of
traffic affiliates constantly skimming clicks
and pennies off of one another.
http://iseclab.org/papers/weis2010.pdf
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Ethics of analyzing adult content
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Hosted adult content
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Is this an ethical problem?
What about money?
What about tracking users?
Web-crawling of adult sites
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DOS attack? Gathering data?
Vector of malware attacks?
Understanding typo-squatting, other avenues
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Gambling and the web
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Kentucky 141, 2009, http://bit.ly/sSYeQd
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Online Poker is a "giant Ponzi scheme"
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How did this work? What was the idea?
http://bit.ly/rW5PSA
pokerstars.net compared to pokerstars.com?
http://ind.pn/uzThEy
How does payment work, technical issues?
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How do credit cards work?
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Internet Poker takedown
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How does pokerstars.com go offline?
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How does FBI take down site?
Is it really down? Where is the money?
What about UIGEA
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Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
History and future
Interstate vs. Intrastate
Lotteries etc.
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Trustworthy Software
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Hacking pacemakers
and smart cards
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Security analysis
RFID and encryption
ICD: implantable cardioverter
defbrillator
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But, consequences?
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More on trustworthy software
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Reliability, safety, security, availability,
maintainability
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How to make software trustworthy
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Trusted to satisfy requirements (what are they?)
What about embedded systems
Specify outcomes not technology
Collect data on software in devices
Encourage research
From Therac-25 to implanted devices
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Nancy Leveson "invents" software-safety
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