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• 2022-10-26 Why Embedding Content Matters
• 2022-04-27 Announcing the NDSS 2022 Test of Time Award: Automated White-Box Fuzzing
• 2022-04-20 A Golden Age of Systems Security Research: What’s Happening at the NDSS Symposium 2022
• 2022-04-12 Routing Security Goes to Washington

Selected Updates

• 2025 I was honored to receive the 2025 IP3 Internet Protocol Award from Public Knowledge, alongside fellow honorees Dr. Alondra Nelson, Sarah Jeong, Alvaro Bedoya, and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
• 2018 Stan Adams and I released a paper describing qualitative interview research of world-class hackers to "take the pulse" of potential chilling effects they may face (work performed at the Center for Democracy & Technology): "Taking the Pulse of Hacking: A Risk Basis for Security Research"
• 2017 Apratim Vidyarthi, Benjamin C. Dean, and I published a paper outlining four important case studies in security research at the Center for Democracy & Technology: "The Importance of Security Research: Four case studies"
• 2017 The report for the 2017 DEFCON 25 Voting Machine Hacking Village is out: Matt Blaze, Jake Braun, Harri Hursti, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Margaret MacAlpine, and Jeff Moss, DEFCON 25 Voting Machine Hacking Village: Report on Cyber Vulnerabilities in U.S. Election Equipment, Databases, and Infrastructure
• 2015 The journal article, "Negotiating stigma in health care: disclosure and the role of electronic health records" -- joint work with Timothy Stablein, Chauna Pervis and Denise Anthony -- is now out.
• 2014 The BITAG report, "Interconnection and Traffic Exchange on the Internet" that I co-edited with Jason Livingood has been published.
• 2014 Our journal article in Health Affairs, "For Telehealth To Succeed, Privacy And Security Risks Must Be Identified And Addressed" has been published.
• 2012 Our short paper, "Gay Males and Electronic Health Records: Privacy Perceptions, Age, and Negotiating Stigma" has been accepted to the American Sociological Association annual meeting.
• 2012 Our paper, "Probing the Front Lines: Pollworker Perceptions of Security & Privacy" has been accepted to the 2012 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT/WOTE'12) PDF.
• 2012 Our paper, "Accountings of Relationships" has been accepted to the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec'12) PDF.
• Dec 2011 We have submitted a letter to HHS CPO Joy Pritts entitled, "Analysis and Recommendations Concerning HHS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Covering Changes to Accountings of Disclosure" PDF.
• Aug 2011 We've published "Applying a Reusable Election Threat Model at the County Level" at EVT/WOTE'11: PDF.
• Sep 2009 ACCURATE has submitted comments on the EAC's proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines v1.1 (VVSG v1.1): PDF.
• 2009 Our paper, "Implementing Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits in California" has been accepted to the EVT'09 Workshop. Read the paper: arXiv, SSRN, PDF.
• 2008 My PhD Dissertation, "Policy Mechanisms for Increasing Transparency in Electronic Voting" is now available: PDF.