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''Bless his heart... he thought all we did was push a button": Understanding Worker Challenges with U.S. Election Technology
Delaney Gomen, Josiah Hester, Naveena Karusala +1
This paper explores how the technologies U.S. election officials depend on also challenge their work. Every election, misleading narratives stem from errors that occur while using…
Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology?
Emily H. Soice, Rafael Rocha, Kimberlee Cordova +2
Large language models (LLMs) such as those embedded in 'chatbots' are accelerating and democratizing research by providing comprehensible information and expertise from many differ…
Robust, privacy-preserving, transparent, and auditable on-device blocklisting
Kurt Thomas, Sarah Meiklejohn, Michael A. Specter +4
With the accelerated adoption of end-to-end encryption, there is an opportunity to re-architect security and anti-abuse primitives in a manner that preserves new privacy expectatio…
You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries
Jenny Blessing, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner
The security of the Internet rests on a small number of open-source cryptographic libraries: a vulnerability in any one of them threatens to compromise a significant percentage of…
SonicPACT: An Ultrasonic Ranging Method for the Private Automated Contact Tracing (PACT) Protocol
John Meklenburg, Michael Specter, Michael Wentz +8
Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries have developed and released contact tracing and exposure notification smartphone applications (apps) to help slow…
KeyForge: Mitigating Email Breaches with Forward-Forgeable Signatures
Michael Specter, Sunoo Park, Matthew Green
Email breaches are commonplace, and they expose a wealth of personal, business, and political data that may have devastating consequences. The current email system allows any attac…