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  • The other day, I planned to take my 15-year-old son to the movie theatre to see “Hateful Eight” in 70mm film format. The theatre would not allow him in. Under article 240a of the Dutch penal code, it is a felony to show a movie to a minor when that movie is rated 16 or above. Even though I think I am responsible for what my son gets to see, I understand that the rating agency put a 16-year stamp on this politically-incorrect-gun-slinging-gore-and-curse-intense-comedy feature.

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    Date published 04 March 2016

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  • NDSS 2016 Papers Now Online
    NDSS 2016 is well underway. Yesterday, there were three wonderful workshops covering TLS, Online Privacy, and Useable Security. The rest of the conference begins today, covering those topics plus other aspects of security, malware, mobile privacy, user authentication, and more.The web team is working hard to get all the papers published. You can find them at:TLS 1.3 Ready or Not (TRON) Workshop: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium-2016/tls-13-ready-or-not-tron-workshop-programmeUnderstanding and Enhancing Online Privacy (UEOP) Workshop: https://www.internetsociety.org/...
    Date published 22 February 2016
    Megan Kruse
    Tech Matters
  • How Can We Make The IoT More Interoperable? Deadline of Monday 22 Feb for proposals for IoT Semantic Interoperability Workshop
    How can we make the Internet of Things (IoT) more interoperable? How can we help ensure that when you buy a light bulb from one IoT vendor it will work with the light bulb from another IoT vendor? How can we avoid getting to a place where we have to use many different apps to control all the different devices in our homes?As we said in our IoT Overview: Understanding the Issues and Challenges of a More Connected World, "a fragmented environment of proprietary IoT technical implementations will inhibit value for users and industry. While full interoperability across products and services is...
    Date published 20 February 2016
    Dan York
    Tech Matters
  • Paving the Way Forward for MANRS
    How do you get a community effort off the ground and make it a success? How do we even define success? Is it the number of participants, general awareness beyond its participants, or new parallel activities that the effort stimulates? Last week during NANOG 66, several MANRS participants met to discuss the challenges we want to address in 2016 and beyond that are critical to the success of this effort.Someone recently commented that MANRS will start paying off when it begins to motivate network operators to implement the outlined Actions in order to join the initiative. That is, indeed, our...
    Date published 18 February 2016
    Andrei Robachevsky
    Tech Matters
  • NDSS Workshop on Understanding and Enhancing Online Privacy
    On 21 February, we’re holding a workshop on Understanding and Enhancing Online Privacy (UEOP) co-located with the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).The mainstream focus in privacy research has long been on designing software from the ground up, providing firm guarantees on the provided privacy properties. Such a "bottom-up" approach is undoubtedly crucial for achieving better online privacy in the long term. Nevertheless, there is also a clear need for "top-down" research, understanding online privacy in the present online digital user habitats and proposing solutions...
    Date published 16 February 2016
    Joerg Hoffmann
    Tech Matters
  • TELUS Wireless and Wireline IPv6 Statistics
    As the engineer responsible for IP Address Management at TELUS, I highlighted the risk of IPv4 exhaustion a few years ago, and with support from executives and the great technical strength of our team we have faced the problem head on for both our home Internet service (wireline) and our mobility service (wireless). According to World IPv6 Launch measurements, we’re in the top 10 globally with 44% of the users on our network enabled to use IPv6.I have some insight I could keep to myself, but I prefer to share because I hope others in the community will find it interesting or even helpful....
    Date published 16 February 2016
    Matthew Wilder
    Tech Matters