Vijay Pandurangan

Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it LESS secure.

Recently, account takeovers, email hacking, and targeted phishing attacks have been all over the news. Hacks of various politicians, allegedly carried out by Russian hackers, have yielded troves of data…

Allo there — What big data and deep learning mean for privacy

I recently joined Benchmark as an Entrepreneur in Residence. My current areas of interest include machine learning, privacy, distributed systems, and telepresence. If you’re interested in one of these areas (or something…

On Taxis and Rainbows 

Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs

Your password management strategy stinks: Here’s why

We’ve used passwords since the beginning of computing. But back then you only had to remember one password — a single account let you access all the programs on one computer. You were unlikely to need to get into more than one of those…