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STIET video showing lifesize, uncompressed fiber-optic video conference from UM Atkins room to WSU via OptIPortalJ. Alex Halderman
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
4-5:30 pm
UM: 411 West Hall
WSU: 313 State Hall (via videoconference)
Joint with the Yahoo Speaker Series.
Much research has focused on designing secure systems that take into account users' incentives, but comparably less attention has been given to the way incentives shape the behavior of system designers. Can designers' incentives be used to predict when and how security will fail? Can we adjust designers' incentives to strengthen the security of the systems they create? I will address these questions in the context of case studies from my research concerning voting machine, digital copy protection, and other families of systems.
A background paper is at http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/papers/drm-sp06.pdf.
J. Alex Halderman is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. His research spans applied computer security and tech-centric public policy. Dr. Halderman has studied topics ranging from passwords, data privacy, electronic voting, digital rights management, and cybercrime to technological aspects of intellectual property law and government regulation. He is widely known for his investigation of the Sony CD-DRM "rootkit," in which he examined how DRM can be a threat to users' security, and his security analysis of the Diebold AccuVote touch-screen voting machine, which demonstrated the first voting machine virus.
