Biography

Christopher Soghoian is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and is advised in his graduate studies by Markus Jakobsson.

His research interests include data security and privacy, cyber law, policy as well as phishing and other forms of applied deception.

He enjoys working at the intersection of applied computer security, law and policy. His activism has resulted in the successful passage of an amendment to Indiana's data breach laws, a congressional investigation of security flaws at the Transportation Security Administration as well as several media firestorms.

He has consulted for, worked at or interned with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), NTT DoCoMo Euro Labs, Google, Apple and IBM Research Zurich.

Publications

• Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm
  Under Submission
• Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, Encryption, and Government Back Doors in the Web 2.0 Era [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian
  Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010.
• Manipulation and Abuse of the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies [Website]
  Christopher Soghoian
  First Monday, Volume 14, Number 8, August 2009.
• The Human Factor in Phishing
  Markus Jakobsson and Christopher Soghoian
  Chapter in Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services
  H. Raghav Rao and Shambhu Upadhyaya, eds,
  Emerald Group Publishing Limited, June 2009.
• Deep Packet Inspection -- Bring It On [Website]
  Christopher Soghoian
  Invited contribution to Deep Packet Inspection, A Collection of Essays from Industry Experts,
  Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, April 2009.
• Merx: Secure and Privacy Preserving Delegated Payments
  Christopher Soghoian and Imad Aad
  Trust 2009, April 2009.
• Legal Risks For Phishing Researchers [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian
  The Third Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Researchers Summit, October 2008.
• The Threat of Political Phishing [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian, Oliver Friedrichs and Markus Jakobsson
  The International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2008), July 2008.
• Caveat Venditor: Technologically Protected Subsidized Goods and the Customers Who Hack Them [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian
  Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 2007.
• Insecure Flight: Broken Boarding Passes and Ineffective Terrorist Watch Lists [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian
  First IFIP WG 11.6 working conference on Policies & Research in Identity Management (IDMAN 07), October 2007.
  
  Republished as a chapter in Protecting Airline Passengers in the Age of Terrorism
  Paul Seidenstat and Francis X. Splane, eds,
  Praeger Publishers, August 2009.
• The Problem of Anonymous Vanity Searches [pdf]
  Christopher Soghoian
  I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2007.
• Mantis: A High-Performance, Anonymity Preserving, P2P Network [pdf]
  Steve Bono, Christopher Soghoian and Fabian Monrose
  Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute Technical Report, TR-2004-01-B-ISI-JHU. June 17, 2004.