Wrapped up an amazing week at USENIX Security ‘25 #USESEC25 in Seattle! Great to catch up with old friends & meet new faces in the security & privacy research community. Huge congrats to the IRBlock team on the Honorable Mention 🎉 All credit goes to the hardworking students! @cs.ubc.ca

From internet censorship to intrusion detection systems to cryptographic algorithms, UBC Computer Science researchers had several papers accepted at the USENIX Security Symposium 2025! Read more about their work in our new article: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/08...

🚨Exciting research from Jonas Tai and Karthik Nishanth (my first MSc students @cs.ubc.ca) & Peter Whiting (intern from @uwaterloo.ca) This week, at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle, WA, they’ll present: "𝐈𝐑𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤: 𝐀 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧"

Age verification has arrived in the UK and, to no one’s surprise, users hate it. We cannot accept these censorship regimes as our new norm. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Canada’s Bill C-2 is a Trojan horse, being pushed to align with U.S. surveillance demands. EFF joins @cancivlib.bsky.social OpenMediaOrg.bsky.social, and @citizenlab.ca in saying: Withdraw it.

Microbiology and Immunology and the Michael Smith Labs are seeking candidates for an Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement position. Learn more and apply at: www.msl.ubc.ca/careers/ #IndigenousinSTEM #BlackInNature #WomenInSTEM #MinoritiesInSTEM #DiversityInSTEM #STEMEducation

‪Paywall: @cs.ubc.ca‬ prof Dr. Nguyen Phong Hoang discusses China's new government-run digital ID system via @washingtonpost.com‬ www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

I spent a whole day in a room full of privacy engineers talking about how they were trying to move their companies towards better practices and then I glanced at my phone, read this, and just let the wave of rage and despair wash over me: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Enacting age verification laws with the purported goals of stopping bots and protecting children reflects “not a lot of deep thinking about the nature of the problem,” and impacts all users’ privacy and free speech, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @fastcompany.com.

Tunnel Vision: Anti-censorship Tools, End-to-End Encryption and the Fight for a Free and Open Internet freedomhouse.org/report/speci...

Canada 🇨🇦 makes many pledges re: regulating spyware, protecting victims of transnational repression, and protecting human rights. But words must be followed by actions. My latest @theglobeandmail.com on the G7 Leaders' Statement on Transnational Repression www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3d51c5f...

🧵1/ Interesting observations about @geti2p.bsky.social access disruptions in Iran — I’d like to add to this based on measurements from i2p-metrics.np-tokumei.net, a system I built several years ago to collect I2P Metrics, supported by @opentechfund.bsky.social Here’s what the 🇮🇷 Iran data shows: 📉👇