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Avoiding Sexual Predators, YouTube Radicalization, Brian Behlendorf, and Cyberpunk Present How to Avoid Supporting Sexual Predators (Valerie Aurora) — Your research process will look different depending on your situation, but the key elements will be: (1) Assume that sexual predators exist in your field and you don’t know who all of them are. (2) When

Tech and Politics, Crypto-Mining Malware, Cost of Securing DNS, and Anti-Fuzzing Techniques Summer School Presentations — a great selection of talks on technology and political structures. A First Look at the Crypto-Mining Malware Ecosystem: A Decade of Unrestricted Wealth — In this paper, we conduct the largest measurement of crypto-mining malware to date, analyzing approximately

Debugging a Scale Problem, Verifying Cryptographic Protocols, Remote Team Stress, and PAC-MAN Source 6 Lessons we Learned When Debugging a Scaling Problem on GitLab.com — When you choose specific non-default settings, leave a comment or link to documentation/issues as to why; future people will thank you. This. Verifpal — software for verifying the security of

Multi-Language Teams, AI Release Models, Security Myth, and The Internet is for End Users Lessons From Working With Teams Who Speak English as a Second Language — We normally “take notes in public” by writing down key points in a shared document or chat. One of us will act as a contemporaneous note taker, capturing

Personal Information, Research Data, Massive Lamba Scale, and The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work Presidio — recognizers for personally identifiable information, assembled into a pipeline that helps you scrub sensitive text such as credit card numbers, names, locations, social security numbers, bitcoin wallets, US phone numbers, and financial data. Microsoft’s Academic Knowledge Graph — a