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Liveblogging SOUPS 2013 24 Jul 2013 | 02:35 pm
I’m at SOUPS 2013, including the Workshop on Risk Perception in IT Security and Privacy, and will be liveblogging them in followups to this post.
NSA Award for Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper 19 Jul 2013 | 11:21 pm
Yesterday I received the NSA award for the Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper of 2012 for my IEEE Oakland paper “The science of guessing.” I’m honored to have been recognised by the distinguished aca...
We’re hiring 18 Jul 2013 | 06:12 pm
We have a vacancy for a postdoc to work on the psychology of cybercrime and deception for two years from October. It might suit someone with a PhD in psychology or behavioural economics with a special...
Why privacy regulators are ineffective: an anthropologist’s view 15 Jul 2013 | 06:38 pm
Privacy activists have complained for years that the Information Commissioner is useless, and compared him with captured regulators like the FSA and the Financial Ombudsman. However I’ve come across a...
Eavesdropping a fax machine 1 Jul 2013 | 07:55 pm
I was intrigued this morning to see on the front page of the Guardian newspaper a new revelation by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: a US eavesdropping technique “DROPMIRE implanted on the Cryptofax ...
Psychology of deception 27 Jun 2013 | 01:47 pm
I’m at SARMAC, a conference with a number of research papers on the psychology of lying and lie detection. I’ll liveblog the relevant sessions in followups.
Internet Censorship and Control 19 Jun 2013 | 01:05 pm
The Internet is and has always been a space where participants battle for control. The two core protocols that define the Internet – TCP and IP – are both designed to allow separate networks to connec...
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2013 11 Jun 2013 | 06:10 pm
I’m liveblogging WEIS 2013, as I did in 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009. This is the twelfth workshop on the economics of information security, and the sessions are being held today and tomorrow at Georgeto...
Security and Human Behaviour 2013 3 Jun 2013 | 10:09 pm
I’m liveblogging the Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour which is being held at USC in Los Angeles. The participants’ papers are here; for background, see the liveblogs for SHB 2008-12 which are ...
A further observation on quantum computing 30 May 2013 | 05:57 pm
Today we’ve published a paper showing that Bell’s inequality is violated in fluid mechanics. What has this to do with computing or security? Well, when we posted a paper back in February pointing out ...
