Joseph Bonneau

Media

Due to my interest in passwords, web security and social networking space, I occasionally get media coverage outside academia. Here is a partial selection of articles featuring my work.

• Relating to: The science of guessing: analyzing an anonymized corpus of 70 million passwords
  • NPR all tech considered, Jun 25 2012 (audio)
  • The New York Times, Jun 22 2012
  • The Economist language blog, Jun 6 2012
  • The Economist statistics blog, Jun 6 2012
  • The Daily Mail, Jun 6 2012
  • Slashdot, Jun 2 2012
  • The Daily Mail, Jun 2 2012
  • New Scientist, Jun 1 2012
  • Reddit, Jun 1 2012
  • The Economist, Mar 23 2012
  • BBC Radio Newshour (audio), Mar 23 2012
• Relating to: Some evidence on multi-word passphrases
  • Schneier on Security, Mar 13 2012
  • Boing Boing, Mar 13 2012
  • Slashdot, Mar 14 2012
  • Ars Technica, Mar 15 2012
• Relating to: A birthday present every eleven wallets? The security of customer-chosen banking PINs
  • The New York Times, Feb 20 2012
  • Mashable (with video), Feb 20 2012
  • The Register, Feb 22 2012
• Relating to: Measuring password re-use empirically
  • ZDNet, Jan 16, 2012
• Relating to: Randomly-generated passwords at myBART
  • PCWorld, Aug 24, 2011
  • CIO Magazine, Aug 24, 2011
  • Schneier on Security, Oct 20, 2011
• Relating to: Another Gawker bug: handling non-ASCII characters in passwords
  • The Register, Jan 12, 2011
  • Gizmodo, Dec 30, 2010
• Relating to: The Gawker hack: how a million passwords were lost
  • BBC News, Dec 22, 2010
  • The Guardian, Dec 16, 2010
• Relating to: The password thicket: technical and market failures in human authentication on the web
  • The Register, Aug 16, 2010
  • Wikipedia Signpost, Aug 2, 2010
  • BBC Tech Brief, Jul 30, 2010
  • Schneier on Security, Jul 20, 2010
  • Information Week, Jun 9, 2010
  • The New York Times, Jun 7, 2010
• Relating to: What's in a Name? Evaluating Statistical Attacks on Personal Knowledge Questions
  • New Scientist, Mar 31, 2010
  • Schneier on Security, Mar 16, 2010
  • The Telegraph, Mar 9, 2010
  • BBC, Mar 8, 2010
  • New Scientist, Feb 3, 2010
• Relating to: Facebook Tosses Graph Privacy into the Bin
  • CNet, Dec 23, 2009
  • EFF Updates, Dec 21, 2009
  • The Register, Dec 11, 2009
• Relating to: The Privacy Jungle: On the Market for Privacy in Social Networks
  • Wired Magazine, Apr 6, 2011
  • The Economist, Jan 28, 2010
  • New Scientist, Jul 31, 2009
  • The Guardian, Jul 15, 2009
  • Technology Review, Jun 11, 2009
• Relating to: Attack of the Zombie Photos
  • The Sunday Times, August 26, 2012
  • The Daily Mail, August 26, 2012
  • Ars Technica, Jul 3, 2009
  • Radio Interview, BBC Radio Scotland, May 21, 2009
  • Television Interview, Sky News, May 21, 2009
  • The Guardian, May 21, 2009
  • BBC, May 21, 2009
  • BBC dot.life, May 21, 2009
  • Agence France Presse, May 21, 2009
  • Yahoo! Tech, May 21, 2009
  • Sky News, May 21, 2009
• Relating to: Democracy Theatre: Commentary on Facebook's Proposed Governance Scheme
  • Computer Weekly, Apr 17, 2009
  • IT Pro, Apr 2, 2009
• Relating to publication of Eight Friends are Enough: Social Graph Approximation via Public Listings
  • ACM Quote of the Day, Apr 7, 2009
  • The Guardian, Apr 2, 2009
  • The Telegraph, Apr 2, 2009
  • Dark Reading, Apr 2, 2009
• Radio Interview, Europe Today, BBC World Service, Jan 29 2009