Bitcoin Price Surges above $8,000, but Is This the Cryptocurrency Comeback?
April 12, 2018 | Jason Murdock, Newsweek
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Others are still not convinced. Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, told Vox this week that bitcoin’s price remains too volatile for it to be considered a worthwhile currency. “In order to make a cryptocurrency work, you need stability,” he said in the interview, published Wednesday. “The value has to hold. So, what you need is an entity that will take, say, dollars, and give you cryptodollars one-for-one and vice versa. But we know what these institutions are; they’re called banks.”
UpFront (radio show)
April 11, 2018 | UpFront radio show on 94.1 KPFA
7:20AM – Mark Zuckerberg Testifies About Facebook Before Congress Serge Egelman, Director of the Usable Security & Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute, affiliated with UC Berkeley, and co-director of the Berkeley Laboratory for Usable and Experimental Security
Why Bitcoin is bull****, explained by an expert
April 11, 2018 | Sean Illing, Vox
To get some answers, I reached out to Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley. Weaver teaches a course on blockchains and seems to think the technology is, at best, misguided and, at worst, a fraud. So I asked him to lay out his case in the simplest possible terms.
What To Do If Facebook Tells You Your Data Was Used By Cambridge Analytica
April 9, 2018 | Ann Brenoff, HuffPost
Knowing your information was used “accomplishes next to nothing, since there’s nothing you can do about it other than be mad,” according to Serge Egelman, research director of the Usable Security & Privacy group at the International Computer Science Institute, an affiliate of the University of California, Berkeley. Unless, of course, you channel your anger to effect change, he added.
Which Tech Giant Will Build a Revenge Porn Database?
April 3, 2018 | Joseph Cox, Motherboard
“You can't make the fingerprint algorithm public (these things are too brittle), so you [the revenge porn victim] have to provide someone with a copy of the image (e.g. Facebook),” Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher from the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, told Motherboard in a Twitter message.
Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg. Thousands of apps can take your data
March 30, 2018 | Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe Tech Lab
Serge Egelman, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Calif., built a website, AppCensus , where consumers can find privacy ratings for about 80,000 Android apps. He also built an app called Lumen that lets Android users see what all the apps on their devices are doing.
How to keep your data safe without having to #DeleteFacebook
March 24, 2018 | Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times
"Basically, there's no enforcement mechanism" to make sure the developer actually deletes your data when you ask them to, said Serge Egelman, the research director of the Usable Security and Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley. "Facebook just takes it on faith that everyone complies with this and doesn't use data inappropriately, which is obviously ridiculous."
What You Need To Know About Deleting Your Facebook Account
March 19, 2018 | Ann Brenoff, HuffPost
The real business of Facebook is collecting data, Egelman says, and for years now, the site has made it hard for users to delete theirs ― not that the internet allows erasures anyway. Once you post something, it is out there, somewhere, forever more.
Did This American Tech Help Turkey Spy In Syria?
March 9, 2018 | Thomas Fox-Brewster, Forbes
Bill Marczak, Citizen Lab researcher, told Forbes attacks using the PacketLogic box to redirect users to the StrongPity malware had continued up to this week.
Senate Campaign In Tennessee Fears Hack After Impostor's Emails Request Money
March 8, 2018 | Miles Parks, NPR
Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, told NPR earlier this year that nonpresidential campaigns are perfect phishing targets. "Phishing is unreliable — you might send out 500 phishing emails and only get a couple of responses," said Weaver. "But when you have [435] House races, each with dozens of potential staffers as targets, you're going to see a lot of these low-level attacks that are remarkably effective when you just use the law of large numbers."