p2pnet news | Announcements:- Privacy and security expert Lorrie Cranor and Free Culture leader John Buckman are joining the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) board.

Cranor is an associate research professor in the School of Computer Science and the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

She was the principal technical staff member at AT&T Lab’s Secure Systems Research program and with four others, studied how unauthorized copies of movies were, and are, being distributed online.

“Part of the reason we were looking was because we suspected there would be some insider leaks,” she told p2pnet at the time, “but not so many.”

Of a total of 285 movies she and her team sampled, 77% were leaked by industry insiders.

She co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), says the EFF, going on:

“Cranor has authored over 80 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics. She has also testified as an expert in lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Internet ‘harmful to minors’ laws. “In 2003, Cranor was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine.”

Buckman founded Creative Commons-backed Magnatune.com, “an online record label that strives to be fair to both recording artists and consumers alike,” says the EFF.

He also started Bookmooch.com, “an online community for the exchanging of used books.”

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Also See:

distributed online – MPAA’s ‘unethical practices’, August 29, 2007

insider leaks – Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process, September 13, 2003

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