All sessions will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center.
Manuel Blum received his BSEE from MIT in 1959. He started his career working in the Neurophysiology Laboratory of Dr. Warren S. McCulloch. He got his PhD in Mathematics at MIT under the supervision of Professor Marvin Minsky in 1964. After a brief stint as Assistant Professor of Math at MIT, he joined the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, 1968-2000. From 2000 to the present, he has been a Professor of CS at Carnegie Mellon University. Manuel is a Turing award winner and member of the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He is the proud academic father of 34 unique and exceptional PhD students. For recreation, Manuel replaced his motorcycle–which gave him no exercise–with a bicycle.
Never memorize passwords. Compute them in your head instead, using secure humanly computable functions from challenges (website names) to responses (passwords).
Brad is a Security Engineer at Facebook and long term contributor to internet-scale security efforts in organizations including the W3C, FIDO Alliance, IETF and CA/Browser Forum.
Managing a lost password or other credential is a problem every application must contend with, but which remains the most neglected part of account lifecycle management. Best common practice has failed to advance beyond the choices of "security" questions, emailed password reset links, or SMS-delivered codes. Federated Identity systems solve some problems but are economically unacceptable in many situations to both users and platforms. This talk introduces a lightweight, purpose-built, and self-assembling protocol with a prototype implementation by Facebook. It allows users to recover account access at any service using whatever other service(s) are best able to re-authenticate them. The design is focused on user choice and privacy and avoids asking people to bargain with their personal information to obtain this basic necessity of online life.
Managing a lost password or other credential is a problem every application must contend with, but which remains the most neglected part of account lifecycle management. Best common practice has failed to advance beyond the choices of "security" questions, emailed password reset links, or SMS-delivered codes. Federated Identity systems solve some problems but are economically unacceptable in many situations to both users and platforms. This talk introduces a lightweight, purpose-built, and self-assembling protocol with a prototype implementation by Facebook. It allows users to recover account access at any service using whatever other service(s) are best able to re-authenticate them. The design is focused on user choice and privacy and avoids asking people to bargain with their personal information to obtain this basic necessity of online life. It also presents the opportunity to build recovery capabilities for end-to-end encryption keys that meet the needs and abilities of ordinary humans.
Ian Haken is a senior security software engineer at Netflix where he works on the Platform Security team to develop tools and services that defend the Netflix platform. Before working at Netflix, he spent two years as security researcher at Coverity where worked on static analysis tools for the automatic discovery and remediation of security vulnerabilities. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014 with a focus in computability theory and algorithmic information theory. Ian has given talks at several other information security conferences including BlackHat EU, AppSec EU, and BSides Seattle.
Almost any web service needs secrets to operate. Whether it's encryption keys for storing credit card data and personally identifiable information, authentication tokens for talking to third party services, or just a password for connecting to the local database, if your application lives online it probably has a secret. But how do you actually keep those secrets secret? In an ideal world access would be tightly restricted; neither developers, nor continuous integration, nor deployment tools would ever see them. But for applications deployed in the cloud which need to automatically instantiate new instances to match demand and replace unhealthy nodes, this creates an even greater challenge; how can an application be automatically deployed with its secrets if even the deployment tools can't be allowed to see them?
In this talk I will describe how we have approached this problem at Netflix: an environment supporting thousands of independent microservice applications, all of which need the capability to automatically scale and self-heal. Along the way, I'll describe how this problem becomes inexorably intertwined with the question of secure, provable, and ephemeral identity, and how we ultimately architected a solution to both problems.
Emily Schechter is Product Manager for Chrome Security at Google, where she works on Chrome Security UX and HTTPS adoption on the web. She has previously worked on the Google Safe Browsing and Anti-Malvertising teams to keep Google and web users safe from online threats. Emily has degrees in Computer Engineering and Economics from Dartmouth College.
HTTPS has been around for over 20 years, but adoption has only slowly increased recently. At Google, a project called "MOAR TLS" is guiding the web towards HTTPS everywhere by methodically hunting and addressing major hurdles for TLS adoption. This talk will give an inside look into the unexpected speedbumps we've faced along the way (why has it taken years to indicate HTTP as "not secure" in Chrome?) and research we've used to guide our strategy. We'll share some talking points that lead to successful HTTPS conversations, in case you're also interested in promoting HTTPS. Finally, we'll discuss remaining hurdles on the road to HTTPS everywhere.
Jos Wetzels is a Research Assistant with the Distributed and Embedded System Security (DIES) Group at the University of Twente. He currently works on projects aimed at hardening embedded systems used in critical infrastructure, where he focuses on binary security in general and exploit development and mitigation in particular, and has been involved in research regarding on-the-fly detection and containment of unknown malware and Advanced Persistent Threats. He has assisted teaching hands-on offensive security classes for graduate students at the Dutch Kerckhoffs Institute for several years.
Embedded systems are everywhere, from consumer electronics to critical infrastructure, vehicles, airplanes and military equipment. Yet public attention to security of embedded systems is relatively recent compared to that of the general purpose world. Combined with its polyculture of hardware architectures and operating systems and the proprietary and restricted nature of many systems and protocols, this has led to an opaque security landscape for both researchers and developers.
As a result embedded binary security generally lags behind what is commonly expected of modern general purpose systems. Hardening embedded systems via adoption of modern exploitation mitigations isn't, however, a trivial endeavor due to the many challenges and intrinsic constraints imposed by embedded environments. If we take into consideration the dominance of unsafe languages and the fact that patch deployment is far more involved on these systems, this is all the more reason for concern.
In this talk we will delve into the embedded ecosystem, present an overview of the state of embedded binary security and outline some of the challenges faced in the adoption of modern exploit mitigations, drawing upon our experiences during security research conducted into popular embedded OSes and our involvement in developing such mitigations for Industrial Control Systems.
Gorka Irazoqui received his BSC (2011) and MSC (2013) in telecommunications from Tecnun Universidad de Navarra, in Spain. He will start his 4th year as a PhD student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts under the supervision of Thomas Eisenbarth. His research topics are microarchitectural side-channel attacks and countermeasures in the cloud. He spent the summer of 2016 doing an internship at Intel.
This is a joint work with Xiaofeo Guo (Intel Corporation).
Cache attacks have been demonstrated to be a big concern for security code designers by being able to recover a wide range of information, ranging from cryptographic keys to user privacy-related information. These attacks take advantage of the fact that two processes are utilizing the same hardware resource, thus leveraging unexpected leakages that can be exploited by a malicious user. More specifically, Last Level Cache (LLC) attacks make use of the fact that the LLC is shared across cores, thus being able to steal information from users located in different cores. This presentation describes the approaches that Flush and Reload and Prime and Probe take, together with the requirements that they need to successfully be launched. In addition, we evaluate different examples of everyday usage software that can be targeted by these kinds of attacks to violate our privacy.
Attila Marosi has always worked in the information security field ever since he started in IT. As a lieutenant of active duty he worked for almost a decade on special information security tasks occurring within the Special Service for National Security. Later he was transferred to the newly established GovCERT-Hungary, which is an additional national level in the internationally known system of CERT offices. Now he works for the SophosLabs as a Senior Threat Researcher in the Emerging Threats Team to provide novel solutions for the newest threats.
Over 90% of the unprotected devices were found to be infected with at least one Malware threat or exhibiting the signs of an attack. In this talk, we'll reveal the results of the research, exposing the number of vulnerable devices and the gigabytes of storage that are now freely available to attackers. We'll also share the technical results of the malware analysis. In summary, this talk will provide an insight into how the very old Internet protocols are being exploited on modern internet connected "things," explain the risks it creates to home and corporate users, and suggest recommendations on how businesses and users should be protecting themselves better against these unsophisticated but dangerous and highly successful attack scenarios.
Yongdae Kim is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and an Affiliate Professor in the GSIS at KAIST. He received his PhD from the computer science department at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Gene Tsudik. Between 2002 and 2012, he was an Associate/Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Before joining U of Minnesota, he worked as a research staff member for two years in the Sconce Group at UC Irvine. Before coming to the US, he worked 6 years in ETRI for securing Korean cyberinfrastructure. Between 2013 and 2016, he served as a KAIST Chair Professor. He received an NSF career award on storage security and a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Award from the University of Minnesota in 2005. Currently, he is serving as a steering committee member of NDSS and Associate Editor for ACM TISSEC. His current research interests include security issues for various systems such as cyber physical systems, social networks, cellular networks, P2P systems, medical devices, storage systems, mobile/ad hoc/sensor networks, and anonymous communication systems.
Sensors are designed to measure sensor inputs (e.g., physical quantities) and transfer sensor outputs (e.g. voltage signal) into the embedded devices. In addition, sensor-equipped embedded systems (called sensing-and-actuation systems) decide their actuations according to these sensor outputs, and the systems have no doubt whether the sensor outputs are legitimate or not. Sensors are essential components for safety-critical systems such as self-driving cars, drones and medical devices. Breaking safety in these systems may cause loss of life or disasters. Because of these safety reasons, sensors are often designed to be robust against failure or faults. However, can they maintain safety under adversarial conditions? In this talk, I detail how sensors can be spoofed or prevented from providing correct operation through regular and side-channels. Attacks on various devices such as medical devices, drones, and smart wearables will be shown.
Sensors are designed to measure sensor inputs (e.g., physical quantities) and transfer sensor outputs (e.g. voltage signal) into the embedded devices. In addition, sensor-equipped embedded systems (called sensing-and-actuation systems) decide their actuations according to these sensor outputs, and the systems have no doubt whether the sensor outputs are legitimate or not. Sensors are essential components for safety-critical systems such as self-driving cars, drones and medical devices. Breaking safety in these systems may cause loss of life or disasters. Because of these safety reasons, sensors are often designed to be robust against failure or faults. However, can they maintain safety under adversarial conditions? In this talk, I detail how sensors can be spoofed or prevented from providing correct operation through regular and side-channels. Attacks on various devices such as medical devices, drones, and smart wearables will be shown. I'll complete the talk with a few directions and guides to prevent these attacks with a few open problems.
Julien Vehent leads security architecture for Mozilla Firefox Services. He is responsible for defining, implementing and operating the security of web services that millions of Firefox users interact with daily. Julien's background is in background in web applications security, services architecture, cryptography and risk management. Julien is the author of Securing DevOps (Manning Ed.).
Mozilla runs services for millions of Firefox users that must be operated at reasonable cost while sustaining a fast innovation pace. Development and operation teams have long adopted DevOps' Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) principles, allowing applications to go from a patch submission to production deployment in minutes. These fast cycles have left security controls designed for slow deployment cycles lagging behind. In this talk, we describe how the Mozilla CloudSec team has redesigned security into the DevOps pipelines to accelerate the discovery and mitigation of security issues using a technique called "Test Driven Security" (TDS).
Similar to Test Driven Development, TDS puts the security tests that represent the desired behavior first, then runs these tests continuously against the code. Compared to a traditional approach where controls implementation is done outside of CI/CD, TDS can run in the DevOps pipeline automatically and continuously assert security of a web application.
In this presentation, we show how Mozilla uses Open Source tools to implement TDS and reduce the number of security vulnerabilities and regressions that reach production environments.
David Molnar is a senior researcher at Microsoft AI and Research, where he leads the incubation of "Project Springfield." Project Springfield combines pioneering "whitebox fuzzing" technology with cloud scale to help people find serious security issues in software across their organization. Prior to Microsoft, David earned a Ph.D. in computer science at University of California, Berkeley, working with David Wagner. David's work on privacy for radio frequency identification earned the "Test of Time" award from the ACM Computer and Communications Security conference in 2014, and his current work focuses on software security.
Advances in automatic reasoning, combined with the shift to cloud services, have changed the software security lifecycle. As we develop software, deploy it into our production systems, look for bugs in that software, and seek to understand these bugs, new techniques help us augment our human abilities with reasoning that can scale up to make decisions in seconds and scale across a wide range of problems. Cloud services that bundle together the data, compute, and specialized talent required for these augmentations make it possible to deploy these techniques across an organization. I will illustrate with examples from different phases of the software security lifecycle, including the "Project Springfield" bug finding service at Microsoft. Finally I will show how the trend toward cloud infrastructure will enable deeper impact on how we manage security for code we build, code we buy, or code we transform.
Nestan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include Automated Reasoning, Satisfiability Modulo Theories, Formal Verification, and Security. Her current work focuses on developing symbolic analysis techniques and tools for automatic identification of vulnerabilities in Java bytecode. Previously she worked on developing techniques to aid checking of software security properties, automating solving of string constraints; and on automated reverse engineering of integrated circuits for security analysis.
She was a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University.
She received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Her dissertation presented a novel approach for Linear Programing—the Conflict Resolution method.
The modern world critically depends on the security and safety of software. We seek to ensure customer confidence and protect privacy, intellectual property, and national security. As threats to software security have become more sophisticated, so too have the techniques developed to ensure security.
This talk focuses on novel opportunities to automate bug detection and security exploit generation provided by advances in symbolic execution and automated constraint solving. It discusses how symbolic execution can benefit from novel techniques in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), a subfield of automated theorem proving that in the past 10 years has revolutionized the discipline. The talk presents a recent highly successful application of SMT solvers in support of the security analysis of Web applications and how these new capabilities open opportunities for automating such analysis beyond the Web.
This is a joint work with Clark Barrett (NYU/Stanford University), Morgan Deters (NYU), Tianyi Liang (The University of Iowa), Andrew Reynolds (The University of Iowa/EPFL), and Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa).
Hudson Thrift leads security operations at Uber, where he is responsible for strategy, efficiency, and execution across the engineering security organization. Hudson is a co-founder and former COO of Kaprica Security, a mobile security company serving large enterprise and government customers, and acquired by Samsung Electronics in 2016. He holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the school's renowned Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) hacking team.
Companies need better, not more, security products. The usual choices when looking for a new solution are buy, build, or use open source, but what if there are other options? In this spirit, the engineering security team at Uber has been exploring how to engage with early stage startups to bring new product features, and cause slight roadmap pivots, to address Uber's security needs. The results have been cost effective, time efficient, and have created a better product for everyone.
This talk will discuss how to identify appropriate problems that can be solved with this model, how to find the right kind of startup, and how to work with them under your specific requirements. We'll explore the concept from an abstract point of view as well as in practice using a case study from the Uber team.
Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are informal gatherings of peers interested in discussing a particular topic and are a great way to maximize the value of your time at a conference. You can always sign up to lead a BoF on site if you're inspired by something you heard in one of the sessions or in the hallway track and want to talk further. See the BoFs page for more information.
Dhia Mahjoub is the Principal Engineer of OpenDNS Research Labs (now part of Cisco) with more than 10 years of technology research experience in network protocols, graph theory, sensor networks, and security. He builds large scale threat detection systems, leads research projects, and provides expert advice on strategic directions. Dhia holds a PhD in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University with a specialty in graph theory applied on Wireless Sensor Networks. He has presented at conferences worldwide including APWG eCrime, Botconf, Black Hat, Defcon, Virus Bulletin, ShmooCon, Kaspersky SAS, Infosecurity Europe, BruCon, Hack.lu, FloCon, and RSA.
Bulletproof and anonymous hosting providers are key enabling factors of ransomware, phishing, and other cybercrime operations. Bulletproof hosters shield criminal content from abuse complaints and takedowns, whereas anonymous offshore hosters preserve privacy and free speech for their customers. Despite being conceptually different, the distinction between both classes tends to blur in practice. These hosters leverage multiple factors in their operations: the anonymity of the internet when establishing their businesses, heterogeneous laws and norms that exist in cross-border online spaces, and jurisdictions with little or no legislation to enforce laws against cyber criminals. Focusing threat intelligence efforts on these services and the actors that provide them is an important step to identifying and removing illegal and malicious content on the Internet.
Bulletproof and anonymous hosting providers are key enabling factors of ransomware, phishing, and other cybercrime operations. Bulletproof hosters shield criminal content from abuse complaints and takedowns, whereas anonymous offshore hosters preserve privacy and free speech for their customers. Despite being conceptually different, the distinction between both classes tends to blur in practice. These hosters leverage multiple factors in their operations: the anonymity of the internet when establishing their businesses, heterogeneous laws and norms that exist in cross-border online spaces, and jurisdictions with little or no legislation to enforce laws against cyber criminals. Focusing threat intelligence efforts on these services and the actors that provide them is an important step to identifying and removing illegal and malicious content on the Internet. As an example, we choose The Netherlands, one of the world's top transit and hosting spaces, and through our research we bring together findings from the network and the field to shed light on criminal hosting in the Dutch IP space. This talk will be useful to threat analysts, security researchers, and law enforcement.
This is a joint work with Sarah Brown (Security Links/NATO).
Jack Naglieri is a security engineer at Airbnb, with a passion for DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure. His exposure to information security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He then transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at scale. A year and a half later, he joined Airbnb, and is now open-sourcing a framework that enables real-time data analysis at scale—StreamAlert.
StreamAlert is a serverless, real-time intrusion detection engine. By building upon technologies such as AWS (platform-as-a-service), Terraform (infrastructure-as-code) and Chef (configuration-as-code), any Security organization can quickly deploy StreamAlert and have it scale to terabytes per hour. StreamAlert enables you to write both simple and complex rules against any of your application, system, or network logs. StreamAlert will remove all of the headaches typically associated with availability, scalability, segmentation, and maintenance (patching, upgrades, etc...). This lets your team focus on their core competency—catching attackers.
Uma R. Karmarkar is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Unit at the Harvard Business School. She holds dual PhDs in Neuroscience (University of California, Los Angeles) and in Consumer Behavior (Stanford Graduate School of Business). Prior to entering the field of consumer behavior, she held an NIH-supported postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Karmarkar's research on this falls into two major streams. The first investigates how individuals use the limited information available in uncertain contexts to make choices. The second examines how the timing and context-dependent framing of information influences perceptions of value and decisions. In pursuing this work, she combines methods from consumer psychology and behavioral economics together with neuroimaging, allowing her to study both conscious and unconscious processes.
Trust is a psychological factor that can gate channels of communication, persuasion, and collaboration. Here, I offer an overview of some of the neural and psychological mechanisms involved in coding for trust and coding for distrust. Trust can be conceptualized as two types of functions. The first is a factor in a relationship with another agent that is often socially developed through one or more interactions. The second is as an individual perception that contributes to certainty or confidence in the face of uncertainty. My research relates to the latter, and how people use incomplete information to handle uncertain or ambiguous decisions. I will show how the relationship between information and feelings of certainty is important for persuasion, and can lead to both optimistic and pessimistic biases in individual decision-making.
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Anthony Vance is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University. He has earned Ph.D. degrees in Information Systems from Georgia State University, USA; the University of Paris—Dauphine, France; and the University of Oulu, Finland. He is currently an associate editor at MIS Quarterly. His research focuses on behavioral and neuroscience applications to information security, and has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI),and other outlets.
A popular saying in information security is, "Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time." However, this statement is unfair—insights from neuroscience show that users' seemingly lazy or careless security behaviors are not necessarily careless at all, but are a natural consequence of how the brain works.
In this talk, we'll show how neuroscience can be used to better understand users' security behavior and design more usable security UI. To illustrate, we'll share insights from of a series of experiments that combine functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and traditional usability testing. The results reveal the substantial effect of neurobiology on users' security behavior, and suggest practical ways to improve security UI.
This is a joint work with Bonnie Anderson, Jeff Jenkins, and Brock Kirwan of the Neurosecurity Lab (http://neurosecurity.byu.edu) at Brigham Young University.
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Tamara Bonaci received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2015, focusing on security and privacy issues of emerging biomedical technologies. She is a faculty member at the same university, teaching a sequence of security courses. Tamara is also a part of a pre-public UW spinoff focusing on biometric methods. Tamara's current research interests focus on security and privacy of biomedical systems, human-computer interaction, and electrophysiological signals.
What happens if a surgical robot, used to perform a life-saving medical procedure, gets compromised and is used to harm a patient on an operating table, a surgeon performing a procedure, or both of them? What happens if a brain-computer interface, used either by severely disabled people or by early adopters, gets compromised and starts allowing anyone interested to listen in on its user's preferences, prejudices, or secrets? A lot—and sci-fi literature is full of interesting but rather unsettling examples.
So a better question to ask is: what can we done to prevent these attacks from happening? The answer is: a lot, and in this talk I will show that many of the mitigation strategies that we can apply rely on users' uniqueness in the way they interact with the system.
Session Chair: Chenxi Wang, Twistlock Inc.
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Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina and a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times. Her book titled "Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protests" will be published by Yale University Press.
Why are many activists more worried about what their mom knows than being tortured? And what does this mean for their digital communication habits and methods? Will they add an extra five minutes to their log-on routine--even if their lives are on the line? Why not? Why are they likely to trust SMS second-factor authentication rather than a more secure "security key"? How could we change their mind? Why are content policies part of security? Why do so many activists ask me more about how to be public and how to prove they took the pictures they did, than ask me about hiding their tracks? Why do activists really need to hide their tracks when it comes to personal information, but not necessarily political communication?
Why are many activists more worried about what their mom knows than being tortured? And what does this mean for their digital communication habits and methods? Will they add an extra five minutes to their log-on routine--even if their lives are on the line? Why not? Why are they likely to trust SMS second-factor authentication rather than a more secure "security key"? How could we change their mind? Why are content policies part of security? Why do so many activists ask me more about how to be public and how to prove they took the pictures they did, than ask me about hiding their tracks? Why do activists really need to hide their tracks when it comes to personal information, but not necessarily political communication? Can governments defeat end-to-end security with just a rumor? I draw on more than a decade of studying digital habits and needs of activists in a variety of countries, ranging from developed countries to fairly repressive ones to share what I know about security and safety in the networked public sphere, especially for non-high profile activists and ordinary people.
Eli Sugarman is a Program Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and manages the Cyber Initiative. The goal of the Cyber Initiative, a five-year $65 million grant-making effort, is to build a more robust cyber field and improve cybersecurity policy-making worldwide.
Previously, he was a consultant and strategist to private sector and nonprofit leaders internationally. He has served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State, where he focused on international security issues. A graduate of Middlebury College, he also holds a JD from Stanford University Law School.
Daniela Oliveira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She then earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Her main research interest is interdisciplinary computer security, where she employs successful ideas from other fields to make computer systems more secure. Her current research interests include adding uncertainty to OS behavior to increase attackers' work factor, understanding and addressing spear phishing susceptibility, cross-layer and personalized security, and understanding developer's security blind spots. She received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2012 for her innovative research into operating systems' defense against attacks using virtual machines and the 2014 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. She is a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow and a National Academy of Engineers Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Alumni. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Older adults constitute a vulnerable population for online social engineering attacks because of their cognition decline with age, including deception sensitivity. They are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, control over half of the financial wealth, and occupy many positions of power.
Spear-phishing emails are used as a central component in many cyber-attacks. Successful emails employ psychological weapons of influence (e.g., scarcity), and relevant life domains (e.g., health) to deceive victims. This talk discusses older adults' susceptibility to spear-phishing emails as a function of weapon of influence and life domain. A 21-day study was conducted with 83 participants (young and older adults) with data collection at the participants' homes. Our results show that older users, especially older women, were more susceptible to phishing than younger users. While younger users were susceptible to a few weapons of influence and life domains, older users were susceptible to a variety of them. Further, there was a discrepancy, particularly among older users, between self-reported susceptibility awareness and actual susceptibility. Our results could lead to a well-grounded next generation of phishing defense solutions and training, which would take into account user age, weapons of influence, and life domains, to be effective.
Erin Kenneally is a Program Manager in the Cyber Security Division for the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) at the DHS Science & Technology Directorate. Her portfolio comprises trusted data sharing, privacy and Information Communication Technology (ICT) ethics, including managing the IMPACT (Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk and Trust) Program. Prior to joining CSD, Kenneally was Founder and CEO of Elchemy, Inc., and served as Technology-Law Specialist at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the Center for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and Center for Evidence-based Security Research (CESR) at the University of California, San Diego.
Industry is grappling, arguably unsuccessfully, with core sociotechnical tensions between individual and collective rights and interests in privacy, security, innovation, and autonomy. This is manifest in issues associated with smart-X (homes, health wearables, vehicles), predictive services, and precision measurements, for example. Because these issues force new applications and interpretations of our traditional social mooring—law, economics and security—we need to rely on ethics as a common ordering force to address the challenges facing industry in achieving customer privacy and autonomy, business innovation and profit, and public and private cyber security. While the concept of corporate social responsibility is not new, the notion of collective industry ethics is shallow at best.
Industry is grappling, arguably unsuccessfully, with core sociotechnical tensions between individual and collective rights and interests in privacy, security, innovation, and autonomy. This is manifest in issues associated with smart-X (homes, health wearables, vehicles), predictive services, and precision measurements, for example. Because these issues force new applications and interpretations of our traditional social mooring—law, economics and security—we need to rely on ethics as a common ordering force to address the challenges facing industry in achieving customer privacy and autonomy, business innovation and profit, and public and private cyber security. While the concept of corporate social responsibility is not new, the notion of collective industry ethics is shallow at best. This talk aims to advance the dialogue and collective action by discussing some of the core elements of ethics on which industry doesn't compete but without which it can individually fail.
Chris is a policy attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, focused on the intersection of civil liberties (including but not limited to private and free speech) and emerging technologies. He has a background in computer science and tries to use an engineering approach to addressing complex technological issues through legislation, litigation, public education, and other forms of advocacy. His current focus is on electronic searches and surveillance by state and local entities.
Law is code, but too much of it is bad code. And just like bad software, bad legal code creates a host of problems, from hidden (by accident or design) biases to vague language that leads to unexpected and even manipulable results. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in the realm of laws addressing modern technology, many of which are drafted by legislators or advocates who fail to understand the present capacities and limitations of the technology, let alone its future potential.
This talk will discuss two software engineering techniques, component-based architecture and modeling, as potential ways to improve future technology legislation. Carefully-designed and vetted existing legislation, such as the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, can provide future legislators with "libraries"—from individual definitions to full model statutes—to incorporate into future work without adding complexity and inconsistency by reinventing the wheel. And developing robust models of the interplay between existing law, such as the various statutes that relate to search warrants, can help lawmakers at least conduct thought experiments on the effects of proposed changes. Can using techniques like these become the norm rather than the exception?
Ben Adida is a software engineer with a passion for using technology to empower individuals. He has extensive academic and industry experience in identity and payments, voting technology, health IT, security and privacy, and Web architecture.
Ben is VP Engineering at Clever, which securely connects more than 50% of US classrooms to educational software. In his free time, Ben works on Helios, a publicly available, truly verifiable, online voting system. Ben holds a PhD in Cryptography and Information Security from MIT.
Over the last 15 years, election integrity advocates have pushed the paper ballot as the unifying solution to various election audit problems. As long as we have the paper ballot, we thought, we can always recount. The US election of 2016 has given us ample evidence that a paper ballot recount is a lot less likely to occur than we had imagined. We cannot continue to rely solely on paper recounts to ensure the integrity of our elections.
Instead, we should build election systems that inherently provide evidence of their integrity, not via a post-hoc audit process, but by virtue of running the election itself. We should be able to challenge election results not because an election is close, but because there is hard objective evidence of questionable integrity. We'll focus on end-to-end cryptographic techniques and how they can work in practice, and we'll also touch on how important voter registration is, and what we can do to increase our confidence in the maintenance of voter rolls.
It's easy to break into networks, and it always will be, because a bad actor only has to be right once to get inside. It should be hard to stay hidden once they're in, because each move could expose them. But today it isn't. Intruders spent more than a year inside the DNC and six months inside OPM. The 2013 Yahoo hack wasn't discovered until stolen data appeared for sale in 2016. We've spent the last decade trying to shift our defenses to the interior, but all the defense in depth in the world won't help us if we don't solve this puzzle. The Secret Service offers a compelling model. There's a reason that jumping the wrought iron fence at the White House is easy, but avoiding capture once inside is almost impossible. The Secret Service accepts porous boundaries and has used control of their environment to defend the President for more than a century.
Matt Jones leads the anti-spam engineering team at WhatsApp, focusing on scalable ways to detect and prevent abuse for 1 billion users. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Facebook working on anti-abuse systems, from reverse-engineering malware and building high-throughput classification systems to defending new products and leading teams in California and London. Along the way, he's protected against malicious ISPs, compromised telephone carriers, and numerous spammers. Before Facebook, Matt earned his BS in Computer Science at Stanford University.
End-to-end encryption, which protects message content so that only the sender and recipient can access it, is gaining popularity in messaging applications. At the same time, there is some concern about potential deleterious effects on spam detection systems. At WhatsApp we have successfully launched such "e2e" encryption for over 1 billion people—while also reducing the amount of spam they receive. This talk will discuss techniques we've found successful for preventing spam without access to message content, and some of the challenges we faced along the way. It should help dispel concerns that e2e encryption necessarily means reduced effectiveness of spam detection.
Damian Menscher is responsible for DDoS defense at Google, where he studied hundreds of DDoS attacks over the past decade. He uses his experience to design automated defenses for common attacks. Prior to joining Google, Damian completed a PhD in computational particle physics.
Botnet growth allows DDoS attacks to outpace Moore's Law, and novel attack styles create additional challenges. Meanwhile, most defenders share limited technical information about attacks, often limiting reports to exaggerated bandwidth estimates. We propose information gathering via the operation of a DDoS honeypot -- a victim site likely to attract interesting attacks -- and present our findings from the operation of KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Sunny Consolvo leads Google's Security & Privacy User Experience team. Sunny and her team spend most of their time focusing on usable privacy and security. Sunny received her Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington. She is a member of the Editorial Board for IEEE Pervasive Computing and the PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). She became a Certified Information Privacy Professional (US) in 2013.
This talk will present results of a qualitative study of the digital privacy and security practices and challenges of survivors of intimate partner abuse (IPA). We propose a framework for organizing survivors' technology practices and challenges into three phases: physical control, escape, and life apart. This framework is intended to help technology creators consider how survivors of IPA can leverage new and existing technologies. Overall, our results suggest that the usability of and control over privacy and security functions should be or continue to be high priorities for technology creators seeking ways to better support survivors of IPA.
Dr. Andrea Little Limbago is the Chief Social Scientist at Endgame, directing and contributing to the company's technical content and blog. She has a background in quantitative social science, and writes extensively on the geo-politics of the cyber domain, policy, and data science. She has previously worked in academia (NYU) and government (Joint Warfare Analysis Center). Andrea holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she taught a variety of international relations and foreign policy courses, and a Bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College.
One of the few areas in which the tech and policy communities generally agree is the need for norms to guide acceptable behavior in the digital domain. Given the increasingly vocal demand for—and noted cases of—greater retaliatory capabilities within the private sector, this is a necessary discussion and directly impacts security and privacy. With everything from cyber militias to full-fledged hacking back capabilities entering the discourse, there is a significant need for policy innovation and creativity that can set the foundation for the broader establishment of global norms. However, there are significant hurdles to norm implementation and a clear lack of comprehension of those factors that impact norm diffusion, including the technical difficulty of verification, outdated policies, as well as collective action problems and expected utility challenges. Despite these hurdles, the US must continue to attempt to shape global digital norms.
One of the few areas in which the tech and policy communities generally agree is the need for norms to guide acceptable behavior in the digital domain. Given the increasingly vocal demand for—and noted cases of—greater retaliatory capabilities within the private sector, this is a necessary discussion and directly impacts security and privacy. With everything from cyber militias to full-fledged hacking back capabilities entering the discourse, there is a significant need for policy innovation and creativity that can set the foundation for the broader establishment of global norms. However, there are significant hurdles to norm implementation and a clear lack of comprehension of those factors that impact norm diffusion, including the technical difficulty of verification, outdated policies, as well as collective action problems and expected utility challenges. Despite these hurdles, the US must continue to attempt to shape global digital norms. Otherwise, other states will fill that void. And to get it right, tech community collaboration is required to avoid another Wassenaar situation. This presentation will discuss the opportunities and challenges of norm diffusion, while embedding the discussion in the recent discourse on offense-based behavior, which has significant implications for both security and privacy.
Tudor Dumitraș is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on Big Data approaches to problems in system security and dependability. In his previous role at Symantec Research Labs, he built the Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE)—a platform for experimenting with Big Data techniques. He received an Honorable Mention in the NSA competition for the Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper of 2012. He also received the 2011 A. G. Jordan Award from the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, the 2009 John Vlissides Award from ACM SIGPLAN, and the Best Paper Award at ASP-DAC '03. Tudor holds a PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Companies facing rampant attacks and data breaches have started turning to artificial intelligence techniques, such as machine learning, for security tasks. A machine learning classifier automatically learns models of malicious activity from a set of known-benign and known-malicious observations, without the need for a precise description of the activity prepared in advance. However, the effectiveness of these techniques primarily depends on the feature engineering process, which is usually a manual task based on human knowledge and intuition. Can we automate this process? Can we build an intelligent system that not only learns from examples, but can also help us build other intelligent systems?
We developed a system, called FeatureSmith, that engineers features for malware detectors by synthesizing the knowledge described in thousands of research papers. As a demonstration, we trained a machine learning classifier with automatically engineered features for detecting Android malware and we achieved a performance comparable to that of a state-of-the-art detector for Android malware, which uses manually engineered features. In addition, FeatureSmith can suggest informative features that are absent from the manually engineered set and can link the features generated to human-understandable concepts that describe malware behaviors.
David Evans is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and leader of the Security Research Group. He is the author of an open computer science textbook, a children's book on combinatorics and computability, and teacher of one of the world's most popular MOOCs. He won the Commonwealth of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award and was Program Co-Chair for the 31st (2009) and 32nd (2010) IEEE Symposia on Security and Privacy. He has SB, SM and PhD degrees in Computer Science from MIT and has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia since 1999.
Machine learning classifiers are widely used in security applications, and often achieve outstanding performance in testing. When deployed, however, classifiers can often be thwarted by motivated adversaries who can construct evasive variants which are misclassified as benign. The main reason for this is that classifiers are trained on samples collected from previous attacks, which often differ from benign samples in superficial and easily-modified ways. Further, many machine learning techniques, including deep neural networks, are inherently fragile. In this talk, I'll highlight the reasons most classifiers can be evaded by motivated adversaries and demonstrate some successful evasion techniques, including ones that can be fully automated. Then, I'll talk about methods that could be used to make classifiers less vulnerable to evasion and to evaluate the robustness of a deployed classifiers in the presence of adversaries.
Nicolas Papernot is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering working with Dr. Patrick McDaniel at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer security and deep learning. He is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship in Security. In 2016, he received his MS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and his MS in Engineering Sciences from the École Centrale de Lyon.
Machine learning models, including deep neural networks, were shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples—subtly (and often humanly indistinguishably) modified malicious inputs crafted to compromise the integrity of their outputs. Adversarial examples thus enable adversaries to manipulate system behaviors. Potential attacks include attempts to control the behavior of vehicles, have spam content identified as legitimate content, or have malware identified as legitimate software.
In fact, the feasibility of misclassification attacks based on adversarial examples has been shown for image, text, and malware classifiers. Furthermore, adversarial examples that affect one model often affect another model, even if the two models are very different. This effectively enables attackers to target remotely hosted victim classifiers with very little adversarial knowledge.
This talk covers adversarial example crafting algorithms operating under varying threat models and application domains, as well as defenses proposed to mitigate such attacks. A practical tutorial will be given throughout the talk, allowing participants to familiarize themselves with adversarial example crafting.
Dr. John Launchbury is the Director of the Information Innovation Office (I2O) at DARPA. In this role he develops strategy and works with I2O program managers to develop new programs and transition program products.
Before joining DARPA, Dr. Launchbury was chief scientist of Galois, Inc., which he founded in 1999 to address challenges in information assurance through the application of functional programming and formal methods. Under his leadership, the company experienced strong growth and was recognized for thought leadership in high-assurance technology development.
Prior to founding Galois, Dr. Launchbury was a full professor at the OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU (Oregon). He earned awards for outstanding teaching and gained international recognition for his work on the analysis and semantics of programming languages, the Haskell programming language in particular.
Dr. Launchbury received first-class honors in mathematics from Oxford University, holds a Ph.D. in computing science from the University of Glasgow and won the British Computer Society's distinguished dissertation prize. In 2010, Dr. Launchbury was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Cyber threats against our information systems have grown in sophistication and number, yet progress in the cyber security of best-of-breed systems has been significant over the last few years, giving us hope that we are no longer facing an impossible task. This talk will present an overview of the state of current cyber systems, the anatomy of a cyber attack, and discuss the cyber R&D portfolio in DARPA I2O.
Lisa Wiswell has worked for the better part of the past decade with the Department of Defense to shift its culture to interact more positively with the hacker community—and to applaud them for their impactful work. She presently works at the Defense Digital Service hacking the Department of Defense bureaucracy and its antiquated and restrictive policies and processes. Previously, she was an Obama Administration appointee, supporting senior DoD leaders by formulating and implementing strategies to improve DoD's ability to operate in digital space, and worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency overseeing a portfolio of cyberwarfare initiatives.
Not that long ago, the Department of Defense started to evolve from security through obscurity to more open practices that welcome contributions from the outside world. A new "Hack the Pentagon" bug bounty pilot proved that outside hackers could help secure DoD systems. The DoD then launched a vulnerability disclosure policy so that researchers could point out general security issues. And a recent "Hack the Army" contest has further proven that bug bounties are an effective tool in the DoD's security toolkit.
This talk will discuss 2016's rocky road to get to where we are today. Though there is still work to be done, there are signs of life to report. Progress at the DoD will help legitimize practices for other sectors and finally provide more clarity on the gray areas of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. Security researchers and prosecutors alike will have a better understanding of what is and isn't legal in the hacking realm.
Mr. Timothy Booher joined DARPA as a program manager in February 2014. His principal R&D focus is on cyberspace technology.
Prior to joining DARPA, Mr. Booher was the deputy technical director for the Air Force Red Team at the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the deputy director for technical policy integration for special programs at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He has led assessments of advanced technology including sensors for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, aircraft survivability, directed energy and cyberspace operations. He has also held positions at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force's 16th Special Operations Squadron and the Active Materials and Structures Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mr. Booher holds a Master of Science degree in operations research from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT.
DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) participants demonstrated recent advances in cyber autonomy to include automatic patching and vulnerability discovery. Relying on teams of hackers doesn't scale, presents no general conclusions, and presents high costs without the guarantee of increased weapons system survivability. DARPA, DIUx, CYBERCOM, the Air Force and Navy are investing in automated tools developed for CGC for application in embedded, real time, and heterogeneous mission systems. In addition, they plan to demonstrate a suite of advanced technologies to include high fidelity multi-resolution modeling, high-integrity processing, high-fidelity situational awareness, systems hardening and data provenance.


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Java 3D is a scene graph-based 3D application programming interface (API) for the Java platform. It runs on top of either OpenGL or Direct3D until version 1.6.0, which runs on top of Java OpenGL (JOGL). Since version 1.2, Java 3D has been developed under the Java Community Process. A Java 3D scene graph is a directed acyclic graph (DAG).

Compared to other solutions, Java 3D is not only a wrapper around these graphics APIs, but an interface that encapsulates the graphics programming using a true object-oriented approach. Here a scene is constructed using a scene graph that is a representation of the objects that have to be shown. This scene graph is structured as a tree containing several elements that are necessary to display the objects. Additionally, Java 3D offers extensive spatialized sound support.

Java 3D and its documentation are available for download separately. They are not part of the Java Development Kit (JDK).

History
Intel, Silicon Graphics, Apple, and Sun all had retained mode scene graph APIs under development in 1996. Since they all wanted to make a Java version, they decided to collaborate in making it. That project became Java 3D. Development was underway already in 1997. A public beta version was released in March 1998. The first version was released in December 1998. From mid-2003 through summer 2004, the development of Java 3D was discontinued. In the summer of 2004, Java 3D was released as a community source project, and Sun and volunteers have since been continuing its development.

On January 29, 2008, it was announced that improvements to Java 3D would be put on hold to produce a 3D scene graph for JavaFX JavaFX with 3D support was eventually released with Java 8. The JavaFX 3D graphics functionality has more or less come to supersede Java 3D.

Since February 28, 2008, the entire Java 3D source code is released under the GPL version 2 license with GPL linking exception.

Since February 10, 2012, Java 3D uses JOGL 2.0 for its hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. The port was initiated by Julien Gouesse.

Features

Multithreaded scene graph structure
Cross-platform
Generic real-time API, usable for both visualization and gaming
Support for retained, compiled-retained, and immediate mode rendering
Includes hardware-accelerated JOGL, OpenGL, and Direct3D renderers (depending on platform)
Sophisticated virtual-reality-based view model with support for stereoscopic rendering and complex multi-display configurations
Native support for head-mounted display
CAVE (multiple screen projectors)
3D spatial sound
Programmable shaders, supporting both GLSL and CG
Stencil buffer
Importers for most mainstream formats, like 3DS, OBJ, VRML, X3D, NWN, and FLT

Competing technologies
Java 3D is not the only high-level API option to render 3D in Java. In part due to the pause in development during 2003 and 2004, several competing Java scene graph technologies emerged:

General purpose:
Ardor3D
JavaFX

Gaming:
jMonkeyEngine
Espresso3D

Visualization:
Jreality

In addition to those, many other C or C++ scene graph APIs offer Java support through JNI.

At a lower level, the JOGL (JSR 231) OpenGL bindings for Java are a popular alternative to scene graph APIs such as Java 3D. LWJGL is another such binding.

See also

Project Looking Glass (Experimental 3D Desktop using Java 3D)
Open Wonderland (Virtual workspace environment using Java 3D and Project Darkstar)

References

External links
Harvey presents the current state of Java3D "I'm not Dead!" at SIGGRAPH 2013
Java 3D est de retour (Java 3D is back): Java3D preview setup introduction
Current releases (Java 3D 1.7)
Previous official site and releases
JSR 926 (Java 3D 1.5), JSR 912 (Java 3D 1.3)
Current forum (Java 3D 1.6)
Previous forum and Wiki for Java 3D - Places for collaboration; includes lists of books and users, FAQ, and knowledge base
java3d.org. Tutorial, examples and information
OpenGL.J3D Java 3D Tutorials
Lecture - from Siggraph for beginners
Game Programming ,  in Java 3D (chapters as pdf-files and sourcecode)
Plugin for Eclipse hosted by SourceForge
Example visualisation applets using Java 3D
EMAP, The e-Mouse Atlas Project - A 3D anatomical structure explorer with embedded 2D section made by Guangjie Feng

3D graphics software
3D scenegraph APIs
Cross-platform software
Java APIs
3D
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Why not Al Franken?
(JTA)—Last week Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said that if Hillary Clinton asked him to be her running mate, he'd take the job. "If Hillary Clinton came to me and said, 'Al, I really need you to be my vice president, to run with me,' I would say yes, but I'm very happy in the job that I have right now."
Although Franken, 64, has spent seven years in the Senate and proven himself to be a conscientious lawmaker—championing decidedly unfunny issues like health insurance, mental health services in schools and net neutrality—some still find it hard to take the former comedian and Saturday Night Live writer seriously as a political figure. He was, after all, the author of an article in Playboy in 2000 about his visit to a (fictional) institute offering virtual pornography, and wrote an infamous Saturday Night Live sketch in which a suave Roman played by Burt Reynolds tries to pick up women at the local vomitorium.
And yet Franken, who defeated Republican incumbent and fellow Jew Norm Coleman in a bitter, highly disputed 2008 election, is on a number of short lists for the veep spot on the Democratic presidential ticket. The Hill included Franken among "Clinton's 9 most likely VP picks" (admittedly, he was number 9), and Newsweek ranked him fifth as a possible choice, tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
Franken is himself the author, in 1999, of "Why Not Me?," a satirical campaign memoir in which a character named Al Franken becomes president (and chooses as his running mate former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, predicting Al Gore's VP choice a year before it happened).
Here's the case being made for a Clinton-Franken ticket by some (mostly progressive) political commentators, along with some caveats.
A bit of Bernie, a foe of Trump
Politico suggests that Franken has what it takes to win over the "energized left-wing youth" who backed Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, and can defuse Donald Trump's toughest barbs and insults with his more finely tuned sense of humor. (Franken once said of George W. Bush, "When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.")
"Franken has worked hard to prove he is a detail-oriented, issues-driven senator, not a political novelty act," writes Bill Scher. "But he has decades of experience skewering factually challenged conservatives."
Newsweek's Taylor Wofford also notes that Franken voted against fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the global trade agreement that is opposed by the Democratic Party's liberal base. "And his personality—friendly, approachable, jokey—would compliment Clinton's extremely well," writes Wofford. "He's also outspoken, and he wouldn't be afraid to get into it with Trump on Clinton's behalf. And if anyone can out-bully Trump, it's Franken."
His Senate seat is safe
If Franken has to resign to run for veep, his replacement would be chosen by a fellow Democrat, Minnesota Gov. Mark Drayton, "so Clinton doesn't need to worry about losing a seat to the GOP," writes Wofford.
He's battle-tested
Politico recalls Franken's knock-down, drag-out race for the the Senate in 2008. It took eight months of recounts and legal challenges—including a decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court—before Franken could declare victory over Coleman. Franken led by 312 votes after a statewide recount, but Coleman had sued, arguing that the recount was flawed.
It was easier for him the second time around, when he cruised to a 10-point reelection victory in 2014.
Doggone it, the Clintons like him
The Daily Kos notes that Franken has been friendly with Bill and Hillary Clinton for two decades, and in the tough times ahead would be a comfortable Oval Office companion for the high-strung Hillary.
"An early Clinton endorser, Franken could serve as a bridge between the grass-roots left and the Democratic establishment," writes Scher.
The Daily Kos even thinks Franken would be a good choice to succeed Clinton as president, perhaps with another short-listed vice presidential possibility as his running mate, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro.
The Jew America needs
Although Lieberman came close, Franken would become the first Jewish vice president in American history. That may ease the disappointment of Sanders' supporters who hoped their Jewish candidate would make it to the White House.
Minnesota has a recent tradition of electing Jews to high office. Before Franken and Coleman faced off, three previous elections for senator there matched two Jews—Republican Rudy Boschwitz vs. Democrat Paul Wellstone twice, then Wellstone vs. incumbent Norm Coleman. (Wellstone was killed in a plane crash two weeks before that election.)
Franken remains a long-shot for the VP nod. Newsweek's Wofford suggests why: Picking Franken gives the GOP a lot of ammo: many of his remarks from before his career in politics, including his old SNL footage, will be resurfaced if Clinton picks him. And some may worry he doesn't have the temperament for the Oval Office. Plus, Minnesota's not a swing state. And he's an old white guy.
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F.D.A. Approves New Artificial Knee Implants for Women
I'm Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English HEALTH REPORT.
Women who have problems with artificial knee implants may get some help soon. The United States Food and Drug Administration recently approved a replacement knee designed especially for women.
About four hundred thousand people in the United States have knee replacement operations each year. More than sixty percent of them are women.
People who have damaged cartilage in their knees are good candidates for a replacement operation. Cartilage is a kind of soft connective tissue. Injuries or disease may cause cartilage loss. When cartilage is gone in the knee, bones rubbing together may restrict movement and cause severe pain.
In a replacement operation, doctors remove damaged parts of the thighbone, the shinbone and the kneecap. They replace the damaged parts with parts made of metal and plastic.
Studies have shown that a knee implant lasts about fifteen years. Women report more problems with implants than men do. Problems include pain and difficulty moving the knee. In some cases, another operation is needed. Experts believe this is because makers of knee implants are more concerned about size than shape. A man's knee is shaped differently than a woman's. Men usually have shorter and wider knees. Women's knees are smaller and narrower.
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Muslims have been living in Zurich for more than fifty years. What are their daily lives like? How do they live their faith? You can find the answer to these questions by taking one of the daily city tours led by Islamic scholar Rifa'at Lenzin.
How prevalent is Islam in Zurich?
Muslims make up about 10% of the population of the city and conurbation of Zurich. But Islam isn't particularly visible. You generally can't tell whether a man is a Muslim, and the same goes for women unless they wear the hijab. And most mosques don't obviously look like mosques. The one at Balgrist is an exception..
This is also the starting point of the 'Islam in Zurich' city tour. It lasts a whole day. Why's that?
I show people the history of Muslims and Islam in Zurich, but I also want to introduce them to two different milieus that are typical of Switzerland – one Turkish, the other Balkan. I explain the differences, but also the similarities. We also visit the Muslim burial area at Witikon cemetery. That takes time, and it's a while before people dare to start asking me questions.
Do they have any prejudices?
JYes, sometimes. Particularly in the afternoon, once they start to feel more comfortable with me. They always ask me about the hijab and whether it is discriminatory. And recently there have been a lot more questions about the relationship between the mosques and the Turkish state. I think it's important that people can ask these questions.
Do people have an opportunity to meet other Muslims?
Yes, sometimes. Particularly in the afternoon, once they start to feel more comfortable with me. They always ask me about the hijab and whether it is discriminatory. And recently there have been a lot more questions about the relationship between the mosques and the Turkish state. I think it's important that people can ask these questions.
What kind of people come on your tour?
All kinds. Some are locals who walk past the mosque every day and want to know more about it. Then there are teachers or people who have contact with Muslims. But most people just want to learn more about Islam and the function of mosques, but they don't dare visit them on their own.
It's all very strange to them and they often have inhibitions. If people are praying in the mosque, they usually don't know whether they are allowed to visit. And if there's nobody there, it doesn't really make sense to go in because all they see is a bare room..
Should the people of Zurich get more involved with Islam in their daily lives?
Not really. Some people are more curious, perhaps because they have a Muslim colleague, or they're generally interested in social and religious issues. But most people have enough to do in their daily lives without wanting to spend their free time on this kind of thing.
No, I totally understand it, particularly as everyone generally lives happily side by side. But all the same, it's important to show that the portrayal of Islam in the media has nothing to do with the daily lives of Muslims in Switzerland. Unfortunately, far too few people understand that.
The tour on Friday, 15 February, is organised by the Zurich Institute for Interreligious Dialogue and the Zurich Adult Education Centre. It begins at 9 am in front of the Balgrist Evangelical Reformed Church and lasts the whole day. If you are interested, please register by Friday, 25 January, at info@ziid.ch.


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'When the Moon Was Full' to go on screen in Habitat Intl. Filmfest.
TEHRAN, Mar. 10 (MNA) – Iranian feature 'When the Moon Was Full', directed by Narges Abyar, will take part at the 3rd Habitat International Film Festival (HIFF) in Delhi, India.
Written and directed by Narges Abyar, the film narrates the true story of Abdul-Hamid Rigi, the younger brother of Abdul-Malik Rigi, the founder and leader of the Jundallah terrorist group in southeastern Iran, who marries Faezeh Mansuri, a woman from Tehran. He forces Faezeh to leave her homeland along with her brother to live in Pakistan where they find themselves involved in the Jundallah terrorist activities.
'When the Moon Was Full' won three top awards at the 2nd Carcassonne International Political Film Festival in France including the Grand Prix, the best actress award for Elnaz Shakerdoust, and the best student jury award.
The film had its international premiere at the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), where it won the festival's 'FIPRESCI Award', presented by the International Federation of Film Critics.
HIFF is all set to bring to Delhi a fantastic line up of Contemporary World Cinema with films handpicked from the best of 2019 & 2020! The Habitat Film Club has curated films that pushed the boundaries of cinematic arts to reflect contemporary influences and burning realities of a changing world. In this edition, cinephiles can expect films from across the globe that surpassed standard expectations, films that elevated critical gaze to explore new frontiers in the international filmmaking community and films that have won important recognitions in the International Film Festivals.
The third edition of the Habitat International Film Festival will be held on March 13-22 in Delhi, India.
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Tosca, Royal Opera House: live and online
13 Jan 21 – 13 Mar 21, 12 live performances, times vary; streamed on 22 Jan
Covent Garden opens its winter season with an audience favourite – Puccini's dramatic story with a deadly twist, set in Rome
By Claudia Pritchard on 22/12/2020
Cavaradossi perfects his sacred artwork in Tosca. Photo: Tristram Kenton
Tosca, Royal Opera House: live and online Tosca, Royal Opera House: live and online Claudia Pritchard
The Royal Opera goes into 2021 with 12 performances of one of its most loved productions, Jonathan Kent's classical Puccini's Tosca. Socially distanced audiences will enjoy spectacular scenery and a distinguished rollcall of singers across three casts.
One of the most captivating opera singers of our time, the Russian-Austrian soprano Anna Netrebko, opens the two-month run on Wednesday 13 January, in the title role as Floria Tosca, an opera singer who attracts the unwanted attentions of an evil chief of police.
The production will also be live streamed for audiences across the globe on Friday 22 January and on demand for 30 days. It costs £16 to view.
The starry opening night on 13 January, conducted by Dan Ettinger, features Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov as Tosca's lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, and audience favourite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the predatory Scarpia. This cast, with Netrebko, performs again on 16, 19 and 22 January.
Kent's production, with Paul Brown's evocative designs, conjures up both the grandeur and the corruption of Rome in 1800. As the Royal Opera House goes to great lengths to protect its artists, crews and audience, there are some changes to the original, large-scale production.
Bass-baritone Gerald Finley is sinister as the conniving chief of police Scarpia. Photo: Catherine Ashmore
On 15, 18, 21 and 23 January, Spanish soprano Saioa Hernández will sing the title role, with South Korean tenor Yonghoon Lee reviving the role of Cavaradossi in which he made his Royal Opera debut in the 2012/13 Season. Lithuanian bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas, a former member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, will perform the role of Baron Scarpia.
As Tosca returns to Covent Garden on 4, 8, 10 and 13 March, British conductor Alexander Soddy will make his ROH debut conducting Swedish soprano Malin Byström, British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who makes his role debut as Cavaradossi, and German baritone Michael Volle.
The three casts are joined by the Royal Opera Chorus, former and current members of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
Oliver Mears, director of opera of the Royal Opera House, says: 'Tosca also features some of the most passionate music in the repertory, performed here by a dazzling collection of local and international stars. Classic opera at Covent Garden is back.'
Tosca is sung in Italian with English surtitles. General booking opens at 10AM on Tuesday 22 December
by Claudia Pritchard
What Tosca, Royal Opera House: live and online
Where Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD | MAP
Nearest tube Covent Garden (underground)
When 13 Jan 21 – 13 Mar 21, 12 live performances, times vary; streamed on 22 Jan
Price £10-£220
Website Click here for more information and booking
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Cars and Houses Riddled With BB Gun Shots in West Haven
By Dan Corcoran	• Published December 15, 2015 • Updated on December 16, 2015 at 4:41 am
Police in West Haven are looking for a BB gun bandit who has been targeting homes and vehicles.
The incidents are leaving a big mess — as well as big repair bills — for residents to deal with.
"This morning, when I'm opening the blinds, I noticed, I said there was a hole," said Robin Foster, a West Haven resident.
Police investigators said that the hole in her living room window was likely caused by a BB gun shot by someone after sunset on Monday.
"We're hardworking people," said Foster. "We don't have extra time or money to spend to fix this stuff that wasn't broken in the first place."
At least a half dozen cars and homes were vandalized in the area of Dana Street and Campbell and First Avenues.
"Our van window was completely shattered and the gentleman two cars in front of us, his window had two small holes in it," said Jaime Cilinceon.
It may cost Cilinceon a couple hundred dollars to fix the window on the sliding door of her minivan. That repair may come at a cost to her daughters, ages 4 and 7, soon to be ages 5 and 8.
"That's two hundred dollars that could have gone to the kids' Christmas," said Cilinceon. "And both girls have birthdays right after Christmas."
West Haven police have not made any arrests or identified any potential suspects in the case.
"Karma – karma is going to get them," said Foster.


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Her presentation will explore how identity, identification, and skin tone bias---or colorism---relate to the real and perceived barriers that students of color face in college classroom contexts. Professor Tennial also considers the impact of levity on classroom climate and student satisfaction.


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Bill Murray & Friend @ River Dogs Opener….
Gordon, Robert Philip
Hand-colored laser print of Bill Murray and an unidentified companion in the stands at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, home of the minor league...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of Bill Murray and an unidentified companion in the stands at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, home of the minor league Charleston RiverDogs.
Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010
Charleston, S.C. Opening Day for the 'River Dogs', 'BP' @ The Joe…Waiting for the Crowd to Arrive
Hand-colored laser print of the press box and stands at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, home of the minor league Charleston RiverDogs.
The Murph' (In Spite of Qualcomm)
Hand-colored laser print of Qualcomm Stadium (formerly San Diego Stadium, Jack Murphy Stadium).
Camden Yard 'Baltimore'…27th Straight Shutout…18 July 97 47,759 Attend Sox Won 3-0
Hand-colored laser print of the outfield and bleachers at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. Visible behind the stadium are the B&O...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of the outfield and bleachers at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. Visible behind the stadium are the B&O Warehouse and Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower.
Trolley Stop @ 'Jack Murphy Stadium'…
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Café au Metro Pernety, Etude de Couleur - 1er Etat
Viscosity print made in France during Robert Gordon's time working with William Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17, in Paris. Artist's proof.
Café au Metro Pernety
Ile des Marins
Paris, Hotel Tholoze
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Alternatives for Planning - Kenwood Oakland
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'Sportsvision' Behind the Plate……Where Are Harry & Jimmy?....
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'The Green Monster'... Fenway Park, Boston 'First Strike'…Ends…Fisk Returns Home
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'View From the Cheap Seats'…...(In Old "Kymyski"..)
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Home Run!! (Bill's Blast-Off)...
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Civic Stadium Portland Oregon…The Portland Rockies
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They Play Baseball in Gardens Out Here…
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In September 2017 Recast Director Martin Scaiff took part in the One Month Album project. Led by local musicians and artists the project requires that each individual write and record an album in a month. The goal is to try and reach 10 tracks or 35 minutes worth of material. Martin decided to create an album that could both promote the HomeSounds project and demonstrate something of what the HomeSounds project is all about.


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Nish: Hibs are improving every week and are too good to be relegated
COLIN NISH has vowed if he leaves Hibs it will not be red-faced after relegation.
The Easter Road frontman is out of contract at the end of the season and admits he is still in the dark about his future at the club.
Nish is kicking himself for missing a gilt-edged chance after 76 minutes at Tynecastle that would have given his side a 1-0 lead in the Edinburgh derby their play would not have merited.
But he has told brassed-off Hibs fans Colin Calderwood will turn around the club in time and the second-bottom side won't drop into the First Division.
Nish said: "I've not got a clue about a new contract. I'll just have to keep my head down and keep working.
"It would be embarrassing to be part of any team that went down, never mind Hibs. However, we've got too much for that to happen. The manager is improving the team every week and we're getting there. We're confident we won't be going down.
"The manager has his ideas and he's gradually getting them over to the boys. We were a lot more solid against Hearts and maybe a bit unfortunate not to take at least a draw. If we continue like that we'll be winning more games than not.
"It's pretty gutting to lose it so late.
We thought the worst we were going to get was a draw as we had held them out for so long. But one cross and one header and it's in the back of the net. That's obviously disappointing.
However, in terms of chances it was pretty even. We thought it was going to be 0-0 or we might have nicked it.
"We played well enough and now we've got other games coming up that we need to win. If we play like that I think we'll get them."
Nish was cursing his bad fortune when he controlled a raking cross-field pass from Derek Riordan and the Hearts defence were exposed for the first and only time in the game.
However, much to the disappointment of Hibs fans sitting behind the goal in the Roseburn Stand he pulled his shot wide from 16 yards.
He said: "I had a chance at the back post from Deek's pass and you've got to take them to win games. I didn't miss by far. I thought it was in.
"I knew I had a couple of folk inside but didn't want to take the chance of cutting inside and having the ball taken from me and then having no chance at all. My first touch was good, I hit it well. Sometimes they go in, sometimes they don't.
"Our league position is not really a concern yet. Obviously, you want to win games and push up the table but we're not doing that at the moment. We'll work our socks off to win games and improve our position."