Amazing keynotes at #GHC18 #WeAreHere

Thread by Matthew Green is on BlueSky: "GCHQ has proposal to surveill encrypted messaging and phone calls. The idea is to use weaknesses in the “identity seate a surveillance backdoor. This is a bad idea for so many reasons. Thread. 1/ lawfareblog.com/principles-mor… […]" threadreaderapp.com/thread/1072163…

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship to offer to a student interested in mobile systems and security. Planned start date is October 2020, but there is flexibility. Please get in touch if you are interested. Full details in the ad. Note 15 June deadline. jobs.ac.uk/job/CAC109/phd…

Matt and I have just been quoted in the FT on this: ft.com/content/14440f…

We've just released CoverDrop, a secure system for whistleblowing. We tackled the tricky problem of making initial contact with a source under pervasive mass surveillance. Blogpost: lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/03/11/cov… Paper: petsymposium.org/2022/files/pap…

Our work CoverDrop (published at PETS) makes whistleblowing more secure by providing strong plausible deniability for the initial contact. Built based on feedback from journalists. lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/03/11/cov… w/ @mansoor_a_r, Diana Vasile, Alastair Beresford, Ross Anderson #security

Excited to have had the chance to present our work to such a great audience. Thank you PETS #pets22 !

Very interesting program at EarComp 2025 this year. Lots of cool papers and two amazing keynotes! You can still register to UbiComp and attend the workshop on the 15th. Hurry up! 🙂

Such a pleasure to have an in-person get-together of my old Cambridge research group Ceren Kocaoğullar Daniel Hug (@🏠) Alastair Beresford Jovan Powar Diana Vasile Luis Adán Saavedra pic.x.com/sP0TzbEBl3

Those of you who wrote down "Internship @ Bell Labs Cambridge" in your New Year resolutions, 🆕🫵send your application in the next five days 🔜🗓... We can't wait to meet you this summer!!! #internship #research #wearable #edgeai

📣 Join us to find the next frontier of personal devices you will have on, around or perhaps inside you! Multiple positions are available in our Cambridge Lab, and we can't wait to meet you #research #device #edgeAI

A friend asked me to find out why his connected lightbulb app was asking for his location, so I ducked out to Australia’s favourite hardware store, Bunnings, and grabbed one to check out. The Android grid connect app has 500k+ downloads. Let’s take a quick look! 🧵 (1/n)

New paper by Alastair Beresford and me: “A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype” — we figured out a JSON CRDT arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960

Video of Diana Vasile and my Strange Loop talk on cryptographic protocols is up youtube.com/watch?v=oRZoeD… #strangeloop

Feigned surprise has no educational or social value. It's about making other people feel smaller. Leigh Honeywell ➡️ @[email protected] #strangeloop

#Elections coming up in your country? If you're a candidate we've got a dos-and-don'ts guide on #encryption for you medium.com/@privacyint/wi…

Home secretary Amber Rudd said people don't need encrypted services. Here's Dr Prof Paul Bernal on why the right to privacy matters

Please help my colleagues' research! Visit sensorid.cl.cam.ac.uk on a smartphone/tablet and let it collect gyroscope data for a few seconds. Thanks 👍

We had a great event! Looking further to the next one, held in Oxford x.com/IlonaBudapesti…