Alexandra Dirksen

🪩 girls just wanna have funding for their research projects 🪩

#CASA #WISC25

The Threat of State-Level Surveillance Using HTTPS Interception ICFP Fellow Alexandra Dirksen examined how authoritarian efforts to gain control of network infrastructure domestically creates the conditions that facilitate HTTPS interception—threatening the privac...

The final report of my ICMP research project @OTF is finished 🥳

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Girls Day beim LegoLab der @tubraunschweig.bsky.social

Happy to support this year's New Security Paradigms Workshop as a local chair! This event offers a unique format for researchers, check it out! Submission Deadline is April, 25! #nspw

Boycott IETF 127 The IETF LLC has decided to continue to hold meetings in the US. Voice your disagreement with this decision here.

Make the IETF a safe space again.
boycott-ietf127.org

@ietf.org

Organisations like @opentechfund.bsky.social (who also funded me) has been stripped of their financial base. This not only affects the researchers who depend directly on their funding. The consequences for users worldwide who depend on the resulting technology and knowledge are incalculable.

Responsible research - TU Braunschweig | Blogs With increasing digital networking, researchers have access to more personal data than ever before. When people are involved in research projects, their

@tubraunschweig.bsky.social published an article about our work on Ethical Reviewing Procedures in Computer Science (EN/DE) 🥳

This project was the result of close interdisciplinary work with @sebgiessler.bsky.social and @hendrik-erz.de, Tobias Fiebig and Martin Johns!

The NSPW implements an excellent format:
A one-hour session is dedicated to each accepted paper, during which it is discussed jointly by all participats.
NSPW'25 will be held in Germany this year, submission deadline: April 25!

Not gonna lie, "Wir streichen die Geisteswissenschaften an der TU und machen sie damit wieder zur TH Charlottenburg" hatte ich nicht als Debattenbeitrag zum "Wir können doch eine Berliner Hochschule schließen" Pitch der CDU auf der Wissenschaftspolitik-Bingokarte.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.