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Showing 1 to 20 of 818 for “"anonymous"”.
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Ideological dilemmas of alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous recovery
… study aimed to map out how members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) construct themselves, in talk, as being in recovery. This study adopted a social constructionist epistemology and a Foucauldian discourse analytic research methodology. A total of nineteen adults in …
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Attitudes Toward Anonymous Public Nudes
… studied, there is very little research regarding anonymous public nudes (APNs). APNs are nude photographs which are taken or cropped so as not to include the face or other identifying characteristics, and posted on the Internet. This differs from sexting in that the photographs are meant to be …
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Trustworthy and scalable anonymous communication
… we investigate the design of novel approaches to anonymous communication that are scalable, decentralized, and Sybil-resilient. First, we begin by investigating security vulnerabilites in existing P2P anonymity systems, and find fundamental limitations in their designs. Second, we propose novel …
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Fast, Metadata-private Anonymous Broadcast
This thesis presents Trellis: a mix-net based anonymous broadcast system with cryptographic security guarantees. Trellis can be used to anonymously publish documents or communicate with other users, all while assuming full network surveillance. In Trellis, users send messages through a set of …
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FlowerPot : an anonymous BitTorrent client
This thesis presents and analyzes FlowerPot, an anonymous client for the BitTorrent file-sharing system. FlowerPot is peer-to-peer, providing scalability and making it difficult to attack with techniques like denial-of-service. It provides anonymity to users by routing traffic through several peers …
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Network coding for anonymous broadcast
… thesis explores the use of network coding for anonymous broadcast. Network coding, the technique of transmitting or storing mixtures of messages rather than individual messages, can provide anonymity with its mixing nature, efficiently disseminate content in multicast and broadcast networks, …
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Approaches to creating anonymous patient database
… transforms patient data into high quality and anonymous patient records that is suitable for data mining purposes.;This document discusses the underlying technologies, features implemented in the prototype, and the methodologies used in developing the software. The prototype emphasizes the …
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Parameter Estimation for Anonymous Hawkes Processes
… work focuses on the the same question in “anonymous" case where labels are not given. In this regime, the lack of information makes many previous approaches intractable and we develop novel non-parametric approaches for solving cases of the structure learning problem in algorithmic and …
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Leveraging Resources on Anonymous Mobile Edge Nodes
… dissertation, we propose Leveraging Resources on Anonymous Mobile Edge Nodes (LAMEN), a three-tier framework where edge devices are clustered by proximities. On having an application to execute, LAMEN clusters discover and allocate resources, share application's executable with resources, and …
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Anonymous authentication of membership in dynamic groups
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Anonymous authentication of membership in dynamic groups
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Implementing Direct Anonymous Attestation on TPM 2.0
… topics such as private information retrieval and anonymous authentication and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has released a version 2.0 standard for Trusted Platform Modules (TPM). Adoption and implementation of these techniques, however, has been lacking. Although the TPM 2.0 specification was …
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Anonymous Communication Networks: Usage Analysis and Attack Mechanisms
… has resulted in growing interest in methods for anonymous communication. Several system designs have been developed with the common aim of preserving communication privacy within the shared network environment. In this study, the structure of these systems is explained and an analysis of current …
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An Assessment of Current Attacks on Anonymous Networks
Anonymous networks are important for maintaining ones privacy on the internet. However, these networks can be used for both good and bad. While a humanitarian worker may use one to spread the word about atrocities committed by an oppressive regime, a person with malicious intent might use it to …
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Enhancing Crowds to Support Truly Anonymous FTP Transactions
Ensuring privacy on the Internet is one of the most daunting challenges that we presently face. Crowds is the implementation of an approach to provide privacy to web transactions. The system's strategy is to seek concealment through numbers. A crowd consists of a collection of users that intend to …
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Women In Alcoholics Anonymous: A Qualitative Research Study
… with five female members of Alcoholics Anonymous were conducted, transcribed and analyzed in an attempt to identify and understand how women approach and adapt recovery strategies and technologies that evolved during the twentieth century to meet the needs of alcoholic men. Discussion of …
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A fair payment system with online anonymous transfer
Physical cash can be anonymously transfered. Transferability is a desirable property because it allows for flexible, private commerce where neither the seller nor the buyer must identify themselves to the bank. In some cases, however, anonymity can be abused and lead to problems such as blackmail …
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