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Monday, June 18, 2012
Online privacy investigator
Really interesting read.
Arvind Narayanan's business card is an exercise in brevity. It contains no data except his name and the words "Google me," a fitting calling card for an academic who specializes in privacy and anonymity research. When you do Google him, his online footprint is robust, but highly selective and pruned. There's a website for his post-doctoral research at Stanford University, where he's currently based, an online journal of semi-personal musings (like the time he fell asleep jet-lagged and awoke with complete amnesia about, not just who he was, but what he was – animal, vegetable, mineral?), a Google scholar page indicating his work has been cited 849 times, and news articles about high-profile projects he's worked on. There are also various social networking accounts (Facebook, Google+) that paint a picture of a precise and scientifically calculating, but whimsical, personality – one whose music tastes run the gamut from Queen to Qawwali (Sufi devotional music), and who prefers mind-bending films like Memento and Inception to mind-numbing superhero flicks.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/wmw-arvind-narayanan
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