Searching For Evil

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Published on October 9, 2007 2:16:26 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WlHhZUayUw

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Google Tech Talks
August 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as diverse as signals intelligence and sociology to search for artificial communities.

Evildoers online divide roughly into two categories - those who don't want their websites to be found, such as phishermen, and those who do. The latter category runs from fake escrow sites through dodgy stores to postmodern Ponzi schemes. A few of them buy ads, but many set up fake communities in the hope of having victims driven to their sites for...