I have been notified that my paper has been accepted for presentation at D-A-CH Security 2011. It is titled „Kostengünstiger Datenschutz auf USB-Sticks“ and based on results of a B.Sc. thesis completed this spring. Co-authors are Knut Borg, Øystein Nilsen, and Rune Søbye.
I offer several topics for M.Sc. students in our Master in Information Security programme, most of them in cooperation with industrial partners. Here are six topics I presented at our internal seminar last week: Survey of Trusted Path and Logging+Audit Support in Operating Systems Cross-Platform Evaluation of App Hardening Security Architecture of a Home Automation […]
I returned from vacation to Turkey this week. The AYT airport in Antalya uses a large number of public information screens to show advertisements, announcements, and security advice. A row of ca. ten screens in the front baggage screening area was not working properly. Instead of what they were supposed to be showing, the screens […]
Sometime last year, one of the food store chains in this country accelerated competition on young parents. They reduced the retail price for diapers by 50%. In addition, the chain operating the store in my neighbourhood increased the bonus you get when shopping for diapers. Instead of getting the 4th package for free, they also […]
Earlier this year a boy from the neighbourhood tried to sell us the Sunday newspaper. He rang the doorbell and waited. Typically we were having (late) breakfast with the family. The first time it happened, I opened the door and politely declined to buy newspapers from him. Following Sunday he rang again. I opened the […]
I have shared my Exchange calendar with the other people in my group here at Høgskolen i Gjøvik (level free/busy time+subject+location). In addition, we have an intranet web interface to all calendars. That application retrieves all calendar information, parses it and presents it similar to the free/busy time+subject+location. The web interface was created some time ago […]
I have a credit card where I earn points for spending money, and even more points when using the card to pay for trains tickets. In my previous job I commuted by train every day, so I accumulated quite some points over time. The points can be exchanged for a large variety of items. This winter, a sled […]
There seems to be a breakthrough for the students I supervise on their bachelor thesis. They have been able to modify contents of a USB memory stick by directly accessing the data stored in sectors. It has taken a while for them to learn, but after thoroughly studying specifications and MSDN documentation, they managed to do […]
Here at the college we get invitations to interesting seminars, presentations or guest lectures quite frequently. Time is a limited resource, and I like to be able to put interesting events in my calender easily — or be able to discard an invitation instantly. When I invite people, I usually like a high degree of […]
I wanted to get better prepared for teaching than only counting on experience gained on the job. Hence, I attended a seminar on college pedagogy this week. There will be more events over the course of this year, and there will even be an exam at the end. Teachers are not treated different from students… My first impression […]