Workshop on Obfuscation

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 220, NYU Law School

2:00 - 3:45pm 
Threat Models and Adversaries: Why Obfuscation?

• “PrivacyVisor: Privacy Protection for Preventing Face Detection from Camera”
  Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
• “Evaluating Strategies for Padding DNS Traffic”
  Daniel Kahn Gillmor, American Civil Liberties Union and Internet Engineering Task Force
• “Circumvention Through Obfuscation”
  Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Moderator: Seda Gürses, University of Leuven

3:45 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30pm
Does it Work?: Tests, Evaluation, and Benchmarks

• “Political Rhetoric as Obfuscation and Finding Solutions with Neural Networks”
  Nicole Cote and Rob Hammond, New York University
• “Obfuscating Data to Prevent Discrimination”
  Sorelle Friedler, Haverford College
• “Obfuscation and Free-Riding in the Long-Run: Using Game Theory to Assess the Impact of User-Initiated Perturbation Techniques”
  Jeffrey Pawlick and Quanyan Zhu, New York University
• Moderator: Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech and New York University

SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law School

9:00 - 10:30am
Obfuscating Identities and Locations

• “Identity Obfuscation Through Fully Functional Avatars”
  Paul Ashley, Anonyome Labs
• “Profile Obfuscation as a Privacy Design Pattern”
  Ero Balsa, University of Leuven
• “Go Rando First and Ask Questions Later: Resisting Emotional Surveillance with Noisy Feelings”
  Benjamin Grosser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Moderator: Scott Skinner-Thompson, New York University

10:30 - 10:40am
Coffee Break

10:40am - 12:10pm
Obfuscating Software

• “Software diversification as an obfuscation technique”
  Benoit Baudry and Nicolas Harrand, Inria
• “Hiding Data Flows with Covert Channels”
  Saumya Debray and Jon Stephens, University of Arizona
• “How Good is Obfuscation?”
  Alexander Pretschner, Technical University of Munich
• Moderator: Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research

12:10 - 12:45pm
Lunch Break

Please purchase lunch and bring it back for the lunch panel.

12:45 - 2:10pm (lunch panel)
The Art of Obfuscation

• “Obfuscating 15M US Criminal Records and Mugshots for the Right to Remove Them”
  Paolo Cirio
• “HyperFace: Emerging Strategies for Obfuscating Computer Vision Algorithms”
  Adam Harvey
• “Obfuscation as Option: The Case of Missing Data”
  Mimi Onuoha
• Moderators: Taylor Black and Harris Kornstein, New York University

2:10 - 2:20pm
Break

2:20 - 3:50pm
Obfuscating Things: Hardware, Devices, and Infrastructure

• “Obfuscating Integrated Circuits (ICs): What, Why and How?”
  Siddharth Garg, New York University
• “Obfuscation in Adaptive Systems”
  Seda Gürses, University of Leuven
• “Two Stories on (De)Obfuscation: From Handbags to Search”
  Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University
• Moderator: Natasha Dow Schüll, New York University

3:50 - 4:00pm
Snack Break

4:00 - 5:30pm
Obfuscation: New Applications and Communities

• “Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics”
  Arvind Narayanan and Malte Möser, Princeton University
  
• “Obfuscation Going Forward: A Research Agenda”
  Finn Brunton, New York University; Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech and New York University; and Daniel Howe, School of Creative Media
• Moderator: Finn Brunton, New York University

5:30 - 6:00pm
Wrap-up

updated April 6, 2017