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Michalis Polychronakis
@mikepo.bsky.social
Professor, CS Department, Stony Brook University | research on network and system security, network monitoring and measurement, online privacy | https://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/
Paschalis (@pbekos.bsky.social) presenting our work on PII leakage through Meta Pixel at ACM CCS 2025 | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | code+data: github.com/pasxalisbeko...
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🗣️ Call for Papers – #DIMVA26
Deadlines are out!
📅Cycle 1 is Dec 3.
CfP is live 👉 dimva.org/dimva2026
📍 Chania, Greece | 1–3 July 2026
Don’t miss your chance to share your research! #CFP
23rd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '26)
dimva.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I posted online the 2023 essay that was available as a Shift Happens booklet before: The convoluted history of Return and Enter on keyboards. aresluna.org/the-day-retu...
The day Return became Enter
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
aresluna.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Phrack turns 40.
The digital drop is live.
Download it. Archive it. Pass it on.
💾 www.phrack.org
#phrackat40 #phrack72
August 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
aresluna.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Arrival time 25:45
July 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Maryam (@mrostamipoor.bsky.social) presenting our work on protecting Kubernetes Secrets at IEEE EuroS&P 2025 | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | source code: github.com/mrostamipoor...
July 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Dan Geer and I write on lawfare about AI and code security : www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-a...
AI and Secure Code Generation
AI is reshaping code security—shifting metrics, unknown bugs, and autonomous decisions humans may never understand.
www.lawfaremedia.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.

Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.

Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree
June 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New blog post! Bootstrapping HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 -- redirects, HSTS, Alt-Svc, ALPN, HTTPS DNS records, oh my.

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/http-123.html
Bootstrapping HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3
How do we get from HTTP/1.1 all the way to 11... I mean, to HTTP/3? Let's look at the path browsers take.
www.netmeister.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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DIMVA is taking place July 9 to 11 in Graz!
We offer diversity grants for participants who identify as women, non-binary, or belong to other underrepresented groups in IT security.

Each grant covers a total of up to 800€.

Applications are open until May 31, 2025.

See dimva.org/dimva2025/#d...
22nd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '25)
dimva.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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May 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Hello hackers! Another @pwncollege semester ends, continuing @ASU's @ace_inst's never-ending quest to revolutionize the way hackers learn to become productive members of the cybersecurity community. Read on to learn what this means for students and Capture the Flag! 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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We are hosting the Information Security Conference (ISC) 2025 at Sungkyunkwan University! ISC is a long-standing security conference with a 28-year history

Prof. Hyungjoon Kevin Koo and Hojoon Lee will jointly serve as General Chairs this year.

CFP: isc25.skku.edu/call-for-pap...
ISC 2025: Information Security Conference
The 28th edition of ISC will be organized by Sungkyunkwan University. The conference will be held in-person at the 600 Years Anniversary Hall, Sungkyunkwan University (Humanities & Social Sciences Campus). The proceedings of ISC 2025 will be published as a separate LNCS volume by Springer.
isc25.skku.edu
May 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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May 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#DIMVA25 is approaching fast! Have you registered yet? 😎

www.dimva.org/dimva2025
May 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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We are hosting the Information Security Conference (ISC) 2025 at Sungkyunkwan University! ISC is a long-standing security conference with a 28-year history

Prof. Hyungjoon Kevin Koo and Hojoon Lee will jointly serve as General Chairs this year.

For more information: isc25.skku.edu
ISC 2025: Information Security Conference
The 28th edition of ISC will be organized by Sungkyunkwan University. The conference will be held in-person at the 600 Years Anniversary Hall, Sungkyunkwan University (Humanities & Social Sciences Campus). The proceedings of ISC 2025 will be published as a separate LNCS volume by Springer.
isc25.skku.edu
April 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Maryam (@mrostamipoor.bsky.social) presenting our work on protecting against memory leakage attacks on serverless platforms at NDSS 2025 | paper: www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/pape... | source code: github.com/mrostamipoor...
February 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Depressing brilliance from my pal Ruben Bolling.
February 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM