Speaker/Bio
Ari Trachtenberg is a
professor of electrical and computer engineering and an affiliate of
computer science at Boston University. His main research interests lie in the effects of
sleep deprivation on the quality of computer security research. Alas, his findings, thusfar, are
largely negative.
Abstract
Suppose that every time you visited one of my talks, you found people
sleeping. Without even knowing the title or abstract of this talk, you might thus
infer that (i) you will likewise find sleeping attendees here and, (ii) inversely, by
changing the author name you may keep people awake. Indeed, in this (complete
hypothetical) scenario, the speaker name is a side-channel that reflects on (and,
perhaps controls) the somnolent state of the audience.
In this talk, I will outline some of my favorite cyber side-channels from the last
ten years of literature, shamelessly highlighting some of the research in my lab.