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Ariana Mirian

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I get excited about empirical measurement and improving security. Senior Security Researcher @ Censys, avid birder, views my own | http://arianamirian.com

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"metric strategy" = we do shitty study on 20 white men with y disease and say xx is good

"measurement strategy" = we do better designed representative measures of xx + variance

"evidence strategy" = we're doing ^, plus patient insight & clinicians' experiences over time, getting xx, rr, aa...

15.05.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last week I had the pleasure talking to @dennisf.bsky.social about empirically backed security decisions (around scanning) and why it matters. Take a peek as to why the data don't lie 😎

21.04.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WOAH!!! I am excited to dive deeper into this. Already a huge fan of the breakdown of personas and difference between digital and behavioral protections 😭😭😭 @tilmonedwards.com amazing work!

28.01.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New year, same old "people getting my name wrong via email"

Today's candidate: "Hello Marian"

22.01.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The security industry is moving FAST, and is leaving behind (actively harming) users. So often we're deploying these defenses that we find out empirically, after the fact, don't. WORK. Security has its own slew of technical problems, yes, AND I think we have a lot to learn from social science here

21.01.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would love to see these papers as well if you have them readily available!

21.01.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to imagine whether "security research" venues tend to ever value or make room for behavioral science and social science πŸ™ƒ so these chasms grow

18.01.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Better late than never...I'm at shmoocon! If you're around let's hang πŸŽ‰

10.01.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The number of times I am randomly selected for additional inspection is not a random number of times

27.11.2024 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listen, on a Friday afternoon at 3 PM, the best variable name I can come up with is "size_bucket". That's all I got left in me.

Will I be fixing this Monday? Absolutely. Do I care right now? Absolutely not.

15.11.2024 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Woah very cool! I had no idea this workshop existed, thanks for sharing this

15.11.2024 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
The 2024 HTTP Workshop Day one. For the sixth time, this informal group of HTTP implementers and related "interested parties" unite in a room over a couple of days doing a HTTP Workshop. Nine years since that first event in...

Daniel Stenberg's notes from this week's HTTP Workshop are a nice way of catching up on smart folks' thoughts about the present and future of your favorite transport protocol:

Day 1: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11...

Day 2: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11...

Day 3: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11...

15.11.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally migrated here from the bad app! A bit about me: I research internet measurement and the intersection of security, and love what I do. Let's try to quantifiably make the Internet a safer place, with empathy for the users! Separate from all that, I also love birds (AMA)

15.11.2024 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"we need some metrif of ground truty "--> exhibit #15232 of why we proofread our own text

12.11.2024 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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