Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering: Experiences from ESERNETNowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities. Therefore, software professionals, researchers, managers, and practitioners alike have to competently decide what software technologies and products to choose for which purpose.
For various reasons, systematic empirical... | | Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and EncryptionIn the spring of 1993, the White House announced an unprecedented plan for both promoting and controlling the use of secret codes to keep communications private. The plan, formally called key escrow but popularly known as "Clipper" after its star component, the Clipper chip, was to adopt a new federal standard for... | | |