Abstract: This talk will explore Dr Elahi’s work on
defending private communication systems from attackers (both state and
criminal). We will discuss the impact and mitigations of adversarial
resource injection, weaponization of software bugs, and the comingling
of client-side surveillance and end-to-end-encryption on social media
platforms. We will touch on the current governance challenges in privacy
projects, the need for incentives for operating privacy infrastructure,
and technological silver bullets.
Bio:
Tariq received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Waterloo and was fortunate to have Ian Goldberg as his supervisor. His
thesis centered on censorship resistance systems and analyses of their
security and privacy properties. He received his MSc from Royal Holloway
- University of London under the supervision of Kenny Paterson where he
investigated anonymous communications and file sharing systems. He
researches computer and network security and privacy enhancing
technologies (PETs) with an emphasis on effective, efficient, and robust
deployments. His research has, and continues to, span the
systematization and the game-theoretic analysis of censorship resistance
and circumvention systems, security analysis and designs of anonymous
communication systems, and privacy-preserving data collection in
privacy-sensitive scenarios. He is interested in novel applications and
enhancements to PETs techniques and strategies to exotic environments,
such as Smart Cities where standard trust and availability assumptions
need not apply.