My editorial "Students are unsung heroes of university research, and federal research funding cuts hurt them most" is now listed on Penn State's Research or Regress page, under Voices for Change. www.psu.edu/research/rea...

Teens and privacy in terms of barrier management. Navigate self disclosure. Issues like ambiguous norms. Also the ability to trust an audience. #soups2025 www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Jenny Tang presenting about doing and reporting statistics in research papers. #soup2025 There are many ways to do statistics incorrectly and even if the test is correct the necessary numbers to interpret them may not be provided. @lujobauer.bsky.social www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Annalina Buckmann (soon on job market) presenting on sociodemographic factors and barriers to security and privacy adoption. Mapped findings to SPAF factors. #soups2025 www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Anna-Marie Ortloff presenting a replication of the "No one can hack my mind" paper. #soups2025 Experts have even more focus on authentication. End users also using 2FA increasing anf anti virus usage going down. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Laura Marie Abels presenting on Social Desirability and developing a scale to measure it. #soups2025 www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Lily Klucinec presenting about mobile money in Kenya which is a financial system tied to SIM cards. To withdraw money personal information currently have to be shared with a mobile money in-person agent. #soups2025 @lorriecranor.bsky.social www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Time based one time passwords, such as those generated by Google Authenticator app. Part of the FIDO Alliance. The paper compares physical secury keys to TOTPs+passwords. #soups2025 www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Peter Mayer presenting about forest time users of password managers #soups2025 Before the study on average had 36 passwords, some of which were reused. There was use of the manager such as adding new passwords. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Analysis of NIST authentication advice in standards documents. #soups2025 Multi factor advice is followed by many universities. Password regular password changes (no longer recommended) still common. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

People take videos of strangers and then use TikTok to identify the person. Many people are identified this way. While sometimes heartwarming, it can also be used for abuse and stalking people. #soups2025 www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Mark Wong presenting about essential online services and minoritised ethnic people. #soups2025 Concerns include control of personal data. People were being selective in what they share. They also make up days. That also don't use some services out of worries. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Usability of privacy nutrition labels. #soups2025 Terms in privacy labels are widely misunderstood. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

After a 3-year hiatus, I'm excited to be heading back to SOUPS and USENIX Security next week in Seattle! Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and meeting new ones : ) Here's some work we'll be presenting:

Delighted to be serving in the EuroUSEC 2025 programming committee again! Please consider submitting your valuable work on Usable Security and HCI at EuroUSEC 2025 Detail: eurousec2025.cis.strath.ac.uk#cfpapers Paper Registration deadline: May 5, 2025

The call for submissions for the Re-Imagining Cryptography & Privacy Workshop (ReCAP 2025) is now available on our website: recapworkshop.online Deadline: April 10, 2025. We welcome work and perspectives from social scientists, humanities scholars, community organizations, and technologists!

We are looking for motivated folks to join the ACSAC Program Committee! Please nominate yourself or people you know.

Being on the academic job market while simultaneously trying to write a dissertation should be illegal : )

Are you doing interesting research on consumer protection? Please consider submitting to ConPro '25. The deadline is Jan 22. www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2025/C...

Rejected by #chi2025? I invite you to contribute to this commiseration playlist. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Congratulations again to @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social on being selected a Google Graduate Fellow. Read more about the amazing work he is doing. #proudadvisor gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-engineeri...

Interested in a postdoc at CMU in AI, cybersecurity, robotics, or sustainability? Consider applying for a Carnegie Bosch Fellowship by Jan 31! carnegiebosch.cmu.edu

Please consider sending your awesome computer security & privacy papers to USENIX Security '25! The cycle 2 deadline is Jan 22 AoE. Remember that writing about research ethics and open science (sharing datasets, code, scripts, etc.) is required! usenix.org/conference/u... @gianko.bsky.social

I am recruiting 2 PhD students and 2-3 masters students to join my group at UAlberta in Fall 2025! PhD: I'm looking for people who are either, (1) Background in HCI and interest in privacy research (2) Background in cryptography or systems security Application FAQ bkacsmar.github.io//advising/

💭 got an academic magazine-length take on gender, sexuality, and online safety? i'm guest editing a special issue for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine w/ Kovila Coopamootoo @eredmil1.bsky.social and we want to see your thoughts! deadline dec 16 -- just two weeks away 🔥

if you are (or know) an undergraduate interested in HCI Research, tell them about the @cmuhcii.bsky.social (CMU HCII) REU program! they could apply to work with me and Chris Maury on a project using AI to help with civic participation at the local government level! hcii.cmu.edu/news/hcii-se...

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

I am looking for PhD students and masters students to start in Fall 2025 to work with me at university of Alberta. If you don't know, the Canadian style thesis-based master's is like a mini-PhD.

CMU is hiring tenure-track faculty who'd like to do fun and exciting research in computer security and privacy. Please consider applying! www.cylab.cmu.edu/about/hiring...

Help with CHI Late Breaking Work program! We are looking for associate chairs (ACs). Not only is the LBW an excellent track for our community to show new work at CHI, but it is also an important step to train new ACs in our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #hci #CHI2025

#chi2026 is looking for volunteers to join our organizing team! Submit your applications here: chi2026.acm.org/2024/10/31/w... we hope this will be an exciting CHI with lots of ways that we sincerely hope will improve the experience of attendees & our community's growth! @sigchi RT #chi2025 #VR #hci

I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's only appropriate that my first post here is this one: sauvik-das.medium.com/cultural-van...

I created a starter pack for researchers who work at the nexus of HCI & cybersecurity / privacy here. Please do let me know if you would like to be added to the list!I'm sure I've missed many folks. go.bsky.app/RGsu5jn

Hi all! We are conducting a study looking at how software developers use ethical frameworks in their day-to-day jobs. See attached flyer for details. Please spread the word and/or consider participating if eligible!