Experience Log

Humans, Nature and Design

Often, the innovation that humans exalt assumes that our new solutions are…

Using India as a Guide for Designing Secure Smart Cities

A Multicultural Meditation on Social Media Engagement Habits

Privacy Matters

Congress finds itself — as usual — in a privileged position from which to address the…

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Read This First

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On Privacy & Data Subjects

There increasingly appears to be an important distinction in the kind of role consumers play as data subjects.

Security and Privacy: A Conversation with a Friend

I have a friend who is a software developer and has worked for different software development companies over the past five years. This friend does have formal education training on cybersecurity (they minored in cybersecurity) and is someone…

Second Thoughts on E2EE

In my last experience log I discussed the idea of E2EE in messaging applications such as Signal. At the end of the article I cited a recent announcement from Facebook to first provide E2EE by default on both of its other messaging platforms (Instagram and Facebook Messenger), and then…

The ECMP Bypass

Read on to know more about the breach of ECMP: a software used to establish the identity of Indian residents.

Last couple of weeks, we have been learning about social cyber security in the class. It has…