Policy topics
Resources about policy topics range from books to journal articles to examples to reports to websites–all in service of providing background information about a range of policy topics, including but not limited to: ad brands safety, hate speech, extremism, harassment, child exploitation, platform manipulation, mis/disinformation, state actors, adult content, and intellectual property.
Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions
Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following
Escape the Echo Chamber
Authentication Best Practices
Easy Ways to Build a Better P@$5w0rd
Design Best Practices for an Authentication System
Evaluating Login Challenges as a Defense Against Account Takeover
Open Source Survey
In collaboration with researchers from academia, industry, and the community, GitHub designed a survey to gather high quality and novel data on open source software development practices and communities.
Usage of Behavioral Biometric Technologies to Defend Against Bots and Account Takeover Attacks
Frictionless strong authentication is a critical driver for enabling ecommerce and many other modern technology systems to thrive. In this talk, I showcase the challenges of tackling modern sophisticated machine based attacks and other malicious human activity attempting account takeover using stolen or compromised credentials. This is followed by a quick dive into the engineered solution that can perform behavioral analytics utilizing biometric data and how it tackles machine learning problems at the scale of hundreds of millions of authentication attempts. Insight is provided into implementation challenges, machine learning model generation, and finally integration into a very complex ecosystem. This talk will also showcase wins and how this eventually enabled a zero-trust environment.
