4 papers
Count of Monte Crypto: Accounting-based Defenses for Cross-Chain Bridges
Enze Liu, Elisa Luo, Jian Chen Yan +5
Between 2021 and 2023, crypto assets valued at over $US2.6 billion were stolen via attacks on "bridges" -- decentralized services designed to allow inter-blockchain exchange. Whil…
Victim as a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers
Daniel Spokoyny, Nikolai Vogler, Xin Gao +7
Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have b…
Somesite I Used To Crawl: Awareness, Agency and Efficacy in Protecting Content Creators From AI Crawlers
Enze Liu, Elisa Luo, Shawn Shan +3
The success of generative AI relies heavily on training on data scraped through extensive crawling of the Internet, a practice that has raised significant copyright, privacy, and e…
An Empirical Analysis on the Use and Reporting of National Security Letters
Alex Bellon, Miro Haller, Andrey Labunets +2
Government investigatory and surveillance powers are important tools for examining crime and protecting public safety. However, since these tools must be employed in secret, it can…