Media
Due to my interest in passwords, web security and social networking space, I occasionally get media coverage outside academia. Here is a partial selection of articles featuring my work.
- Miscellaneous
- Is a 'Safe' Password Even Possible? We Ask an Expert, Brad Jones, Oct 12 2015
- Mr. Robot Uses ProtonMail, But Still Isn't Fully Secure, WIRED, Oct 7 2015
- Relating to Secrets, Lies, and Account Recovery: Lessons from the Use of Personal Knowledge Questions at Google:
- Testimony of Kevin Fu to the US Senate, Jun 2 2015
- Relating to Cracking-Resistant Password Vaults using Natural Language Encoders :
- CIO, May 11 2015
- Radio interview on the Katherine Albrecht show
- Audio, Mar 10 2015
- From my essay What Passwords Show About Ourselves
- The Secret Life of Passwords, New York Times Magazine, Nov 19 2014
- Relating to Towards reliable storage of 56-bit secrets in human memory:
- Motherboard, Jun 13 2015
- Wired, Jul 11 2014
- Relating to the NSA award I received in 2013:
- My original Light Blue Touchpaper blog post, Jul 19 2013
- Interview at AlterNet blog post, Jul 26 2013
- Reaction at Reddit, Jul 27 2013
- AMA interview at Reddit, Jul 27 2013
- Reaction at Slashdot, Jul 28 2013
- EFF blog, Jul 27 2013
- Radio interview at The Takeaway (audio), Jan 16 2014
- Relating to: The science of guessing: analyzing an anonymized corpus of 70 million passwords
- NPR all tech considered, Jun 25 2012 (audio)
- The New York Times, Jun 22 2012
- The Economist language blog, Jun 6 2012
- The Economist statistics blog, Jun 6 2012
- The Daily Mail, Jun 6 2012
- Slashdot, Jun 2 2012
- The Daily Mail, Jun 2 2012
- New Scientist, Jun 1 2012
- Reddit, Jun 1 2012
- The Economist, Mar 23 2012
- BBC Radio Newshour (audio), Mar 23 2012
- Relating to: Some evidence on multi-word passphrases
- Schneier on Security, Mar 13 2012
- Boing Boing, Mar 13 2012
- Slashdot, Mar 14 2012
- Ars Technica, Mar 15 2012
- Relating to: A birthday present every eleven wallets? The security of customer-chosen banking PINs
- The New York Times, Feb 20 2012
- Mashable (with video), Feb 20 2012
- The Register, Feb 22 2012
- Relating to: Measuring password re-use empirically
- ZDNet, Jan 16, 2012
- Relating to: Randomly-generated passwords at myBART
- PCWorld, Aug 24, 2011
- CIO Magazine, Aug 24, 2011
- Schneier on Security, Oct 20, 2011
- Relating to: Another Gawker bug: handling non-ASCII characters in passwords
- The Register, Jan 12, 2011
- Gizmodo, Dec 30, 2010
- Relating to: The Gawker hack: how a million passwords were lost
- BBC News, Dec 22, 2010
- The Guardian, Dec 16, 2010
- Relating to: The password thicket: technical and market failures in human authentication on the web
- The Register, Aug 16, 2010
- Wikipedia Signpost, Aug 2, 2010
- BBC Tech Brief, Jul 30, 2010
- Schneier on Security, Jul 20, 2010
- Information Week, Jun 9, 2010
- The New York Times, Jun 7, 2010
- Relating to: What's in a Name? Evaluating Statistical Attacks on Personal Knowledge Questions
- New Scientist, Mar 31, 2010
- Schneier on Security, Mar 16, 2010
- The Telegraph, Mar 9, 2010
- BBC, Mar 8, 2010
- New Scientist, Feb 3, 2010
- Relating to: Facebook Tosses Graph Privacy into the Bin
- CNet, Dec 23, 2009
- EFF Updates, Dec 21, 2009
- The Register, Dec 11, 2009
- Relating to: The Privacy Jungle: On the Market for Privacy in Social Networks
- Wired Magazine, Apr 6, 2011
- The Economist, Jan 28, 2010
- New Scientist, Jul 31, 2009
- The Guardian, Jul 15, 2009
- Technology Review, Jun 11, 2009
- Relating to: Attack of the Zombie Photos
- Ars Technica, Jul 3, 2009
- Radio Interview, BBC Radio Scotland, May 21, 2009
- Television Interview, Sky News, May 21, 2009
- The Guardian, May 21, 2009
- BBC, May 21, 2009
- BBC dot.life, May 21, 2009
- Agence France Presse, May 21, 2009
- Yahoo! Tech, May 21, 2009
- Sky News, May 21, 2009
- Relating to: Democracy Theatre: Commentary on Facebook's Proposed Governance Scheme
- Computer Weekly, Apr 17, 2009
- IT Pro, Apr 2, 2009
- Relating to publication of Eight Friends are Enough: Social Graph Approximation via Public Listings
- ACM Quote of the Day, Apr 7, 2009
- The Guardian, Apr 2, 2009
- The Telegraph, Apr 2, 2009
- Dark Reading, Apr 2, 2009
- Radio Interview, Europe Today, BBC World Service, Jan 29 2009