Monthly Archive for March, 2007

Terrorists on the Internet … Dude

Upon finding out that I study information security, a question people often ask me is:

“Alright dude, so like, if all these terrorists go around posting stuff on the Internet, why can’t we just use their Internet posts to track them down?”

What annoys me is that I can think of several answers to this question but I do not know which one is in actuality most of the times true.

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Memon’s 15 minutes, take 2

Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries

Nasir Memon, the professor who oversees much of our lab, was quoted in the above article relating to Adobe’s decision to include forgery detection plugins with the next version of Photoshop. Among the areas of research currently ongoing in ISIS, multimedia forensics, watermarking, and stegonography are some of the top for PhDs.