It’s not you. It’s them.

My favorite day of usable privacy and security class! Students pick a usable privacy/security scholar to present. This time they chose: @mmazurek.bsky.social, @eredmil1.bsky.social, @zappala.bsky.social, @lorriecranor.bsky.social, @andiiicat.bsky.social, and Scott Ruoti.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

I use this in my usable privacy class: sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R47... It’s relatively neutral and written for non-experts.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

My 2009 dissertation on misclosure has perhaps never been so relevant.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

repository.gatech.edu/entities/pub...

I’m really proud of this work that PhD student Cheng Guo presented at #USEC2025 this week.

We found that the people choose anonymity for highly sensitive topics and using a throwaway account doesn’t increase workload for human moderators.

Paper: www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u...

Iceland!? 😁