🚨 In our new #USEC2025 paper, we introduce a secure, physically-intuitive RFID tag that users actually trust.

On-demand RFID: Improving Privacy, Security, and User Trust in RFID Activation through Physically-Intuitive Design

👉 Paper: sauvikdas.com/papers/62/se...

#Privacy #AcademicSky #Security

🔒 Our new #USEC2025 paper shows that by automating permission decisions based on prior decisions, we risk NORMALIZING privacy discomfort rather than reducing it.

"Modeling End-User Affective Discomfort With Mobile App Permissions"

Paper: sauvikdas.com/papers/60/se...

And the #USEC2025 goes to…

48 hours of remembering what sunlight is again; thanks #usec2025🔒!

I’m really proud of this work that PhD student Cheng Guo presented at #USEC2025 this week.

We found that the people choose anonymity for highly sensitive topics and using a throwaway account doesn’t increase workload for human moderators.

Paper: www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u...

📢#USEC2025 program is live!
Join us on Feb 24 2025 #NDSS2025 for insightful discussions on usable security & privacy. Don't miss this exciting program 🔗 www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-program...
Looking forward to seeing you there!
#cybersecurity #privacy
@georgemasonu.bsky.social
@svebug.bsky.social

📢 Due to several requests, we’re extending the #USEC2025 submission deadline by 1 week to help with overlapping deadlines. 🎉
🗓 OLD: Nov 18
🗓 NEW: Nov 25 (last extension)
We can’t wait to see your innovative work!
www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/sub...
#Cybersecurity

We couldn’t hold back!
🏆 The Test of Time Award #USEC2025 goes to the landmark USEC 2012 paper:
“A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone.”
& Dr. Patrick Gage Kelley will deliver the closing keynote for the award! 🎊
Paper link: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Dr. Kelley is the Head of Research Strategy for Trust & Safety at Google.
He has worked on projects that help us better understand how people think about their data and safety online.
We are super excited to have him join us #USEC2025
@svebug.bsky.social
See you all tomorrow!!!

🚀 #USEC2025 notifications are out!
Out of 42 submissions, 18 papers(14 full, 4 vision track) have been accepted.
We’re grateful for the high-caliber work submitted & we thank our esteemed PC who worked hard to finalize decisions before the holidays!
Looking forward to seeing you all there! 🙏

The submission deadline for #USEC2025 is fast approaching—November 25! Let’s make a final push before the break (for some) to get those incredible works in. We’re so excited to see the amazing research coming our way! 🚀 #Cybersecurity @svebug.bsky.social