My Dad unexpectedly passed away last Thursday at the age of 84, peacefully, calmly, in the house I grew up in. He was an inventor, a radio operator, a pilot, an entrepreneur, an amazing father and pop-pop. He never let a loving thought go unsaid. Love you, pop.

On @Cloudflare Radar, you can now track various forms of traffic tampering around the world! This is the result of our collaboration between @UofMaryland and Cloudflare to develop passive ways of detecting when third parties tamper with user traffic. Stay tuned for a blog post!

My colleague @Alan_Lau gave a great talk at #HotNets about applying LLMs to help automate internet incident investigation!

Weird Al Nostradamus

The flagship flag ship program.

Oh that was my broader call for more data (relevant picture attached 😊)-- I'm not trying to dump this on you!

I bought this shirt ~15 years ago and waited for the right opportunity to wear it. Today was that day, as I performed a science experiment with my kid's class. Thank you @PHDcomics for helping introduce a love for data to a new generation!

There are many other instances of crime and re-victimization in the paper. Here's a table summarizing 15 of the phones.

We found many instances of identity theft, including victims' social social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account information, passports and other forms of identification—the literal definitions of "personally identifiable information".

First, there were all the things you might expect: text messages, photos (including nudity, drugs, weapons), browsing histories, cookies, usernames, passwords,...

That was not the only time a phone's credentials were included in the auction. Here is another PropertyRoom auction from Jan 2020 that has what appears to be a swipe pattern on it (we did not purchase this phone or confirm).

The police appear to have cracked one phone's PIN using @GrayshiftLLC's GrayKey. Here's the picture from PropertyRoom. This phone arrived with a sticky-note on the back; we confirmed the number was the PIN. This was not one of the most common PINs; we would not have guessed it.