At the UWC this last weekend, I had several people ask me what blogs I read. Since I subscribe to more than 90 Atom feeds, that’s… kind of a long list. So I thought I’d just export the whole group– both security things and not, amusement and serious, webcomics, etc.– and let people see what they want. I’ve done some basic categorization so that people can quickly pick what they’re interested in, but in general, they’re all good (or at least, interesting).

Haven’t posted in a while, and unfortunately, this won’t be a long one. I did, however, want to say that I had an incredibly great time at the UWC-USA for their symposium on social networking. I was giving a presentation entitled “Run Away: A Fair and Balanced Look at Privacy in the Age of Location-Based Social Networking,” comprising some parts of my Mnikr research, some new things from SimpleGeo, and some basics of how privacy works these days. I took video, which worked nicely, except YouTube appears to have eaten the audio sync somehow. (It’s really fine, as there’s no good reason to watch me anyway.) I’ve also embedded the slides below.

Quite an interesting incident happened this evening, which I feel compelled to share. A colleague of mine asked me, while I was at work yesterday, if we could connect on LinkedIn. I said that’d be fine, and sent him an invitation. This evening, he accepted it, but also noted that someone else had created a LinkedIn account using my name and face.

I was pleased to be able to present the Mnikr project at the Digital Identity Management conference at the ACM Computer and Communications Security conference today. In addition to being one of the best academic security conferences, it was fun for me to see several of my professors from Hopkins; in addition to my advisor, I was able to see Professor Rubin and Professor Monrose, the latter of whom has actually moved on to UNC-Chapel Hill, but who was presenting work with some of his students from Hopkins. A great time, all around.