@collinsmunyendo.bsky.social
cs phd student @gwusec usable security & privacy https://collinsmunyendo.github.io/
@awyrm.bsky.social
19.09.2025 04:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Huge congrats, Serge!
28.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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Teens and privacy in terms of barrier management. Navigate self disclosure. Issues like ambiguous norms. Also the ability to trust an audience.
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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
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Annalina Buckmann (soon on job market) presenting on sociodemographic factors and barriers to security and privacy adoption. Mapped findings to SPAF factors.
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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.
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Laura Marie Abels presenting on Social Desirability and developing a scale to measure it. #soups2025
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Usability of privacy nutrition labels. #soups2025
Terms in privacy labels are widely misunderstood.
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🗓️ Friday 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Social Issues and Security)
I'll present our USENIX Security paper on the security and privacy challenges of shared tech infrastructure in rural Ghana, w/ Emmanuel Tweneboah and Yixin Zou.
📄 Paper: shorturl.at/YRwr4
🗓️ Wednesday 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm (Usable Privacy and Security 1)
I'll present our USENIX Security paper on how security and privacy perceptions and practices vary between WEIRD vs non-WEIRD countries, w/ Franziska Herbert, Jonas Hielscher, Steffen Becker, and Yixin Zou.
📄 Paper: shorturl.at/o1gfr
🗓️ Tuesday 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (Authentication)
Lily Klucinec will present our SOUPS paper on privacy-preserving protocols for agent-facilitated mobile money services, w/ Karen Sowon, Eunice Maingi, Gerald Suleh, Lorrie Cranor, Giulia Fanti, Conrad Tucker, and Assane Gueye.
📄 Paper: shorturl.at/2OpCO
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:
07.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
Thank you : )
11.03.2025 00:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
12.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Being on the academic job market while simultaneously trying to write a dissertation should be illegal : )
29.01.2025 23:31 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congrats, Jo!
17.01.2025 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Are you doing interesting research on consumer protection? Please consider submitting to ConPro '25. The deadline is Jan 22.
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Rejected by #chi2025? I invite you to contribute to this commiseration playlist. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
16.01.2025 23:26 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Congratulations again to @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social on being selected a Google Graduate Fellow. Read more about the amazing work he is doing. #proudadvisor
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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
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