If you think a promiscuous client is a scantily-dressed customer, you're in trouble. And I'm not talking about having an affair. Think an evil twin is a horror-movie villain? Wrong again. The horror you should be bracing yourself for is not on the silver screen — and it's not from a rolling pin flung at you from across the kitchen, for that matter. Rather, the trouble is in the airwaves and tar...

Mobile Evil Twin attacks stem from the missing authentication of open WiFi access points. Attackers can trick users into connecting to their malicious networks and thereby gain the capability to mount further attacks. Although some recognition and prevention techniques have been proposed, they have been impractical and thus have not seen any adoption. To quantify the scale of the threat of evil...

For a quartic primitive CM field K, we say that a rational prime p is evil if at least one of the abelian varieties with CM by K reduces modulo a prime ideal p|p to a product of supersingular elliptic curves with the product polarization. We call such primes evil primes for K. In [GL], we showed that for fixed K, such primes are bounded by a quantity related to the discriminant of the field K. ...

When a viewer attends to “the reds” in a painting while ignoring other hues, he/she gives heightened priority to information from red regions. This general capability of selecting visual information based on its content is called “feature-based attention.” This paper proposes a new conceptualization of feature-based attention in terms of attention filters. An attention filter is a process, init...

Throughout all of Rousseau’s works there is tension between reason and conscience. Reason binds men when they think correctly, but divides them when they place it at the service of self-interest. Conversely, the universality of conscience is immediate and transparent: it transmits the truth of the existence of God and of the universal principles that underlie human action, despite the differenc...

Abstract In this paper, I highlight three objections to vice-based accounts of moral evil: (1) the worry that evil are explanatorily inadequate; (2) even extreme vice is not sufficient for evil; and (3) all vices inversions virtue (and so will struggle explain “mirror thesis”). argue it possible respond these by developing a account draws on insights from vice) epistemology. way, seek defend st...