How The Pursuit Of Truth Led Me To Selling Viagra

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Presented at 18th USENIX Security Symposium 2009 by

Vern Paxson

For an empiricist, at the heart of the pursuit of truth lies measurement. This talk will frame perspectives I have developed in applying measurement to Internet security research for the past fifteen years. Along with lessons learned regarding how security realities can diverge from ivory-tower assumptions, I'll discuss the enormous changes in the landscape over that time and explain how those changes led to colleagues and me trying our hand at selling Viagraóall for the cause of science.