Systems Thinking for Safety and Security

We had a different flavor of talk when Nancy Leveson and Bill Young from the Department of Engineering Systems came to give a talk at the security seminar. They discussed a systems thinking for safety and security. To place things in a bit of perspective…

Jim Gettys on Embedded Systems Security

Embedded Systems Security

Jim Gettys, a programmer at Bells Labs, gave a talk at the MIT security seminar on embedded systems security. Jim has done a lot of interesting work in many spheres.

Pivot: Fast, Synchronous Mashup Isolation Using Generator Chains

Proving the Security of a Simple Private Information Retrieval Protocol in EasyCrypt

We had a talk from Alley Stoughton from Lincoln Labs, who talked about “Proving the Security of a Simple Private Information Retrieval Protocol in EasyCrypt.” There are a lot of…

Nick Feamster on “Bots, Bubbles, and Bottlenecks: Safeguarding the User’s Internet Experience”

Nick Feamster, former professor at Georgia Tech and now professor at Princeton, came to give a talk about Bots, Bubbles, and Bottlenecks. There was a lot in his talk…

Can You Hide in an Internet Panopticon?

Bryan Ford from Yale University gave a talk at the MIT security seminar a couple weeks ago. Sorry, this blog post has been delayed. He gave an interesting talk about the anonymity work he has been doing. He went through many technical details that I’ll leave…