"metric strategy" = we do shitty study on 20 white men with y disease and say xx is good "measurement strategy" = we do better designed representative measures of xx + variance "evidence strategy" = we're doing ^, plus patient insight & clinicians' experiences over time, getting xx, rr, aa...

Last week I had the pleasure talking to @dennisf.bsky.social about empirically backed security decisions (around scanning) and why it matters. Take a peek as to why the data don't lie 😎

New year, same old "people getting my name wrong via email" Today's candidate: "Hello Marian"

The security industry is moving FAST, and is leaving behind (actively harming) users. So often we're deploying these defenses that we find out empirically, after the fact, don't. WORK. Security has its own slew of technical problems, yes, AND I think we have a lot to learn from social science here

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to imagine whether "security research" venues tend to ever value or make room for behavioral science and social science 🙃 so these chasms grow

Better late than never...I'm at shmoocon! If you're around let's hang 🎉

The number of times I am randomly selected for additional inspection is not a random number of times

Listen, on a Friday afternoon at 3 PM, the best variable name I can come up with is "size_bucket". That's all I got left in me. Will I be fixing this Monday? Absolutely. Do I care right now? Absolutely not.

Daniel Stenberg's notes from this week's HTTP Workshop are a nice way of catching up on smart folks' thoughts about the present and future of your favorite transport protocol: Day 1: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11... Day 2: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11... Day 3: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11...

Finally migrated here from the bad app! A bit about me: I research internet measurement and the intersection of security, and love what I do. Let's try to quantifiably make the Internet a safer place, with empathy for the users! Separate from all that, I also love birds (AMA)

"we need some metrif of ground truty "--> exhibit #15232 of why we proofread our own text