UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner guides business and civic leaders along “the invisible trail” of online tracking

The Technology Alliance hosts a monthly Discovery Series seminar, with the stated goal of inviting leading researchers to give talks that can help inform local business and civic leaders about new and important technical advances. UW CSE professor and security lab co-director Franzi Roesner gave this month’s presentation. Franzi spoke about online tracking and smartphone security. Read more online here.

CSE Open House, K-12 Students, and SSL Certs

The UW CSE Security Lab participated in today’s CSE Open House, for visiting K-12 students. The lab’s hosted activity: a sequence of cryptographic puzzles. Check out the puzzles here. And what did the students get, if they solved the puzzles? An SSL (Super Smart Learner) certificate. A big thank you to Anna Kornfeld Simpson, Adam Lerner, Lucy Simko, Eric Zeng, Camille Cobb, and Alex Takakuwa for preparing the puzzles and the SSL certificates.