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Although the Internet was designed to be decentralized, in reality there are a handful of centralized parties whose unilateral decisions affect the security and privacy of billions of users around the world. In this talk, I will describe some of our efforts to empirically these centralized decision-makers, and systems we have built and deployed that empower users to exert control over their security and privacy. I will talk about this through broad pieces of work in particular: understanding with whom we are communicating online, and evading nation-state censorship. This work is the culmination of collaborations with my PhD students and dozens of undergraduate students; I will briefly discuss our efforts to scale-up undergraduate research.
Dave Levin is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where he also earned his PhD. He received an NSF CAREER award, multiple best-paper awards, and an Undergraduate Research Mentoring award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Dave started the Breakerspace lab at UMD, in which he has advised dozens of undergraduate research groups in various projects in network and systems security. https://www.cs.umd.