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Measuring Security Practices
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Measuring Security Practices

This paper seeks to make progress on the prevalence of popular security practices and their relationship to security outcomes via the longitudinal empirical measurement...

A Fistful of Bitcoins
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A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names

Bitcoin has the unintuitive property that while the ownership of money is implicitly anonymous, its flow is globally visible. In this paper we explore this unique...

Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
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Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines

Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware...

Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
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Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion

We all receive spam advertisements, but few of us have encountered a person who admits to following through on an offer and making a purchase. And yet, the relentlessness...
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