2005 News

I just got back from the World Championships of Magic in Yokohama, where I was head judge of the team competition. Congratuations to the winning team from Japan.

Our SafeCache and SafeHistory browser extensions for Mozilla Firefox are now available for download. We've also written a paper about Same-Origin Browser Policies and why they are important for web privacy and security.

Jeremiah Grossman from WhiteHat Security gave a talk at Stanford, and his presentation inspired me to create a demo showing how to defeat frame-busting techniques in Internet Explorer using the restricted iframe tag.

I gave a brief panel talk at the Yale computer science alumni reunion, where I met many interesting individuals, including Joel Spolsky, Luis Ortiz, and Chris Owens.

I'm back at Stanford working on web privacy related projects.

I'm in Seattle for two weeks working on Stanford research and finishing up a project for Wizards of the Coast.

I'm judging this weekend at the Magic: the Gathering US Nationals Championships in Baltimore, MD.

The Stanford Daily just printed an article on PwdHash that quotes me in a few places.

I gave a talk on PwdHash at the USENIX Security Symposium in Baltimore. Meanwhile, PwdHash was featured in this CBS 5 News broadcast.

I'm back from Kenya. Check out this SF Chronicle article on PwdHash and SpyBlock, another project I'm involved in.

I'm leaving today on a 10-day trip to Kenya to visit family and friends, and also to check out those world-famous lions and tigers. Here are some photos from my trip, updated live!

A Firefox version of PwdHash is now available on the project website.

I just finished a wonderful 3-month internship at Google, working on as-yet unreleased products. I would like to thank my host, Fritz Schneider, as well as all my other coworkers, for making me feel welcome and helping me stay productive. I'll be working remotely in Washington, DC for the next few months as I continue my Stanford research.

I broke down an opened a Flickr account. 'Cause all the cool kids are doing it.

Apparently I'm going to serve on a panel at the upcoming Yale Graduate School Alumni Conference.

If the sidebar on the left side of Firefox annoys you as much as it annoys me, you might be interested in my Sidebar on Right extension that will (shockingly) move it to the right.

Today's TIPPI workshop at Stanford inspired me to create this favicon.ico in the likeness of the Firefox SSL lock. To increase awareness of the possibility of user interface spoofing, I encourage security-minded folks to use it as their webpage icon.

I spent this weekend in Seattle for the Lakeside School five year reunion and the University of Washington graduation.

The NSF site visit for the PORTIA project was a great opportunity for me to present my research, and socialize with Yale and NYU professors.

The Stanford databases group came to Google and the illustrious Hector Garcia-Molina took some photos.

I spent 18 continuous hours participating in a scavenger hunt through Stanford, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Berkeley. Here are some pictures of our team, a huge monk, and a weird-looking duck.

Our PwdHash paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings and presentation in the refereed papers program at the 14th USENIX Security Symposium. Here's a PowerPoint slide summarizing our results.

I will be at Google during the spring quarter for a three-month internship.

I've returned from Pro Tour Atlanta, where I supervised high-level judge exams, called five drafts, and conducted a seminar entitled "Judge Interviews: How to Pass, and Why We Have Them."

A draft of our paper for the PwdHash project is now available.

I've returned from a two-week trip to Japan, where I led the international judge staff of Pro Tour Nagoya. After the event, I travelled to Tokyo, where I met up with some friends, practiced my Japanese on random locals, and spent several nights sleeping in Manboo internet cafes.