Video on Edge
John Brockman of Edge interviewed me in London in March. The video of the interview, and a transcript, are now available on the Edge website. Edge runs big interviews with several dozen scientists a...
View ArticleSecurity and Human Behaviour 2017
I’m liveblogging the Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour which is being held here in Cambridge. The programme is here. For background, see the liveblogs for SHB 2008-15 which are linked here. Blog...
View ArticleDon’t blame Cambridge for Facebook’s privacy crisis
Mark Zuckerberg tried to blame Cambridge University in his recent testimony before the US Senate, saying “We do need to understand whether there was something bad going on in Cambridge University...
View ArticleSecurity and Human Behavior 2018
I’m at the 2018 Workshop on Security and Human Behavior which is being held this year at Carnegie Mellon University. For background, the workshop liveblogs and websites from 2008–17 are linked here. As...
View ArticleHow Protocols Evolve
Over the last thirty years or so, we’ve seen security protocols evolving in different ways, at different speeds, and at different levels in the stack. Today’s TLS is much more complex than the early...
View ArticleSHB 2019 – Liveblog
I’ll be trying to liveblog the twelfth workshop on security and human behaviour at Harvard. I’m doing this remotely because of US visa issues, as I did for WEIS 2019 over the last couple of days. Ben...
View Article2019 Cambridge Cybercrime Conference
I’m at the fourth Cambridge Cybercrime Conference, which I will try to liveblog in followups to this post.
View ArticleThree Paper Thursday – Analysing social networks within underground forums
One would be hard pressed to find an aspect of life where networks are not present. Interconnections are at the core of complex systems – such as society, or the world economy – allowing us to study...
View ArticleInfrastructure – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Infrastructure used to be regulated and boring; the phones just worked and water just came out of the tap. Software has changed all that, and the systems our society relies on are ever more complex and...
View ArticleThe Online Safety Bill: Reboot it, or Shoot it?
Yesterday I took part in a panel discussion organised by the Adam Smith Institute on the Online Safety Bill. This sprawling legislative monster has outlasted not just six Secretaries of State for...
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