@joerowell
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Joined August 2018
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We are looking for an ethnography postdoc (2 years) to work with us on the EPSRC-funded Social Cryptography project (social-foundations-of-crypto…). Closing date is 15 February 2024. Based at Royal Holloway University of London. More information here: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vac…
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Registration of interest for CrossFryre 2024 is open!! sites.google.com/view/crossf… Official registration goes through Eurocrypt website, but if you are interested in attending, giving a 15min Talk or a 5min Lightening talk, please fill the form!
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@RikkeBjerg wrote an ethnography focused announcement blog post: rikkebjerg.gitlab.io/me/post… and @martinralbrecht wrote a cryptography focused one: martinralbrecht.wordpress.co…

EPSRC Standard Grant: Social Foundations of Cryptography

Our grant application for the research project titled “Social Foundations of Cryptography” has received funding from the EPSRC. So, this is me saying a little bit about the project, who we are and...

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Ok, shaking my Twitterverse network. I'm organising the Performance track for QCon London next year, and I want to make sure I don't bias the track construction too much. If you do performance work, please reply to this tweet or DM me :-) - would love to hear about you!
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Not just me, but 70+ of us¹: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl… ¹ established researchers and scientists working in the fields of information security and cryptography
KCL Informatics@kclinformatics21 Sep 2023
“This magical technology simply doesn’t exist. You cannot scan messages without being able to see them”. 💻👀 Chair of Cryptography @martinralbrecht spoke to @BBCNewsUK on the recent clash between the government and Meta on encryption, and how your privacy could be at stake.🔒
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Call for papers for the new IACR journal is out.. cic.iacr.org/callforpapers Please support this journal. It is the outcome of a many year community led effort to improve the publication process in cryptography.
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The Online Safety Bill will have its third reading in the House of Lords on Wednesday. From what I can gather, it is expected to pass. This is quite worrying for online safety. A thread.
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OK, real talk. @telegram makes big proclamations about free speech and privacy, but their promises are mostly marketing. The app collects a huge amount of data. And like all Big Tech, when actually pressed by governments, they ultimately comply. techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/ir…

Iraq lifts ban on Telegram after messaging app complies with authorities | TechCrunch

Iraq's telecom ministry unbanned Telegram over the weekend after the agency banned the chat app last week over security concerns.

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📎 Congratulations to our own Erin Hales, Sean Murphy, Tabitha Ogilvie, and Rachel Player, and coauthors Anamaria Costache and Benjamin R. Curtis, whose paper "On the Precision Loss in Approximate Homomorphic Encryption" is accepted to SAC 2023 ➡️ sac-workshop.github.io/sac-2…
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I don't often tweet, but circumstances compel. I'm reminded of a point @tekwendell made on a podcast 10+ years ago: there's nothing that's stopping the government from doing, you know, traditional police work. They do not need the power to read messages to stop crime.
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I'm not saying traditional policing is perfect, but given that laws are often contextual, removing people from the equation seems very wrong to me.
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As an aside: it has been a longstanding UK government policy to try to make the UK friendly to large tech companies. There's also been large investment in security training (e.g for yours truly). These policies push people away. It makes me question my own place in the UK.
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68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety." Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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Joint statement from more than 300 scientists from 32 countries warning against the EU proposal for regulation to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLet…… The technologies it puts forward are inadequate to solve the problem and bring huge societal risks 🧵

CSA Academia Open Letter

The text below is an open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation. Signatures on 31 July @ 12pm Signatories: 465 Countries: 38 For...

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I guess our advertisements worked too well. We're in dire need of additional evaluators, due to a record high number of registrations. If you or someone in your group is eager to join the team, please fill out the self-nomination form before the weekend: forms.gle/wp5XpF5EmHJEZPxY6

(Self-)Nomination for the USENIX Security 2023 Artifact Evaluation Committee

For the fourth year, USENIX Security allows optional evaluation of artifacts that support a paper: software, hardware, evaluation data and documentation, raw survey results, mechanized proofs,...

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner@ovahldy8 Jun 2023
Last chance. @USENIXSecurity 2023 artifact registrations deadline is tomorrow. We look forward to your great artifacts!
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Mucked up? So the Holocaust was a sort of whoops-a-daisy political moment? Oh.
National Conservatism
@NatConTalk15 May 2023
There was nothing wrong with nationalism in Britain. It's just that there was something wrong with nationalism in Germany. I don't see why no one should be allowed to love their country because the Germans mucked up twice in a century. @DouglasKMurray at the #NatConUK gala
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To echo this -- use a profiler! I recently achieved a 10x speedup by changing an environment variable (!!) -- I _never_ would have found the source without using a (stack sampling) profiler. They're worth their weight in gold.
Halvar Flake
@halvarflake27 Apr 2023
The lesson from years in performance engineering: most software has so much internal bottlenecking that it never maxes out the hardware; just getting it to use available hardware has large perf gains.
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Rant incoming! Please don't cite "Foo et al.", especially please don't use "Albrecht et al." Commonly in our field authors are listed in alphabetical order and thus the person centrally responsible for pushing a project across the finish line may be swallowed in "et al."
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This was good fun! Thanks to all who attended, spoke, and to my co-organisers @yayworthy and @erin__hales.
ICMS@ICMS_Edinburgh26 Jul 2022
ICMS has been busy and buzzing this week with attendees from the Foundations and Applications of Lattice-based Cryptography workshop, both in-person... #cryptography #maths
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ICMS@ICMS_Edinburgh26 Jul 2022
ICMS has been busy and buzzing this week with attendees from the Foundations and Applications of Lattice-based Cryptography workshop, both in-person... #cryptography #maths
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