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Christopher Soghoian is a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is also a third year PhD student with the School of Informatics at Indiana University. He is advised in his graduate studies by Markus Jakobsson (PARC).

His research interests include data security and privacy, cyber law, policy, anonymity preserving networks, and applied deception.

His work has been cited in testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform.

He writes the Surveillance State blog at CNET Networks.

• Christopher Soghoian, Legal Risks For Phishing Researchers, Forthcoming.


• Christopher Soghoian and Imad Aad, Secure and Privacy Preserving Delegated Payments, Under Submission.


• Markus Jakobsson and Christopher Soghoian, The Human Factor in Phishing, Under Submission.


• Christopher Soghoian, Oliver Friedrichs and Markus Jakobsson, The Threat of Political Phishing, The International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2008), July 2008.


• Christopher Soghoian, Caveat Venditor: Technologically Protected Subsidized Goods and the Customers Who Hack Them, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 2007.
  
  
• Christopher Soghoian, Insecure Flight: Broken Boarding Passes and Ineffective Terrorist Watch Lists.
  First IFIP WG 11.6 working conference on Policies & Research in Identity Management (IDMAN 07), October 2007.
  
  
• Christopher Soghoian, The Problem of Anonymous Vanity Searches. I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2007.
  
  
• Steve Bono, Christopher Soghoian, Fabian Monrose. Mantis: A High-Performance, Anonymity Preserving, P2P Network. Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute Technical Report TR-2004-01-B-ISI-JHU. June 17, 2004.

• The Threat of Political Phishing (pdf).
  Press Coverage: [SC Magazine] [New Scientist] [The Washington Post] [Wired News]
  
  
• Privacy Flaws in Facebook's Private Profiles.
  Press Coverage: [The Times (UK)] [The Register (UK)] [Wired News] [Boing Boing]
  
  
• A Remote Vulnerability in Firefox Extensions.
  Press Coverage: [CNET News.com] [The Register (UK)] [Washington Post] [Wired News] [SC Magazine] [PC World] [Network World] [eWeek]
  
  
• Investigation into IU Credit Union Phishing/Hack Incident.
  Press Coverage: [The Register (UK)] [Washington Post]
  
  
• Man In The Middle Attack Against Bank Of America's SiteKey Authentication.
  Press Coverage: [Slashdot] [The Register] [ZDNet] [Washington Post] [UVA Cavalier Daily] [Chronicle of Higher Education]
  
  
• Fake Northwest Airlines Boarding Pass Generator.
  Press Coverage: [New York Times] [Washington Post] [AP] [Wired News] [CNet News] [NPR] [ABC News] [The Register].
  
  

I was formerly a graduate student in the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. You can see my old page (with work) archived here.