Meat Your Enemy

Know Your Enemy: Honeynets

Over the past several years the Honeynet Project has been dedicated to learning the tools, tactics, and motives of the blackhat community and sharing the lessons learned. The primary tool used to gather this information is the Honeynet. The purpose of this paper is to discuss what a Honeynet is, its value, how it works, and the risks/issues involved. It is hoped that the security community can ...

Cancer therapy: know your enemy?

BACKGROUND Most cancer therapies are devised for adult or even elder patients. However, when dealing with pediatric cancers, additional considerations are needed. CONCLUSIONS This review discusses non-classic components of tumors and highlights possible treatment approaches which might be of particular benefit for children and adolescents.

Animal Cognition: Know Your Enemy

Food-storing corvids are able to remember which individual saw them store food, and take preventive action that is tailored to that particular competitor's knowledge. This raises the question of whether abilities like 'theory of mind' have arisen independently more than once in evolution.

What if you can't sense your enemy… and your enemy is an invasive predator?

The Value of Knowing Your Enemy

Many auction settings implicitly or explicitly require that bidders are treated equally exante. This may be because discrimination is philosophically or legally impermissible, or because it is practically difficult to implement or impossible to enforce. We study so-called anonymous auctions to understand the revenue tradeoffs and to develop simple anonymous auctions that are approximately optim...