Sofia Celi
@claucece.bsky.social
Proud LatinAmerican. "Legendary quantum lady/cryptographer". Researcher @brave @bristoluni.bsky.social she/they
agent: let's delete this file harness: 🚨 DANGER NOPE CAN'T DO THAT 🚨 agent: let's replace this file with the empty string harness: 😌 thank god yes that's better 💆
![Comic. Cursed Connectors #158: The Arthurian (can only be unplugged by a rightful heir to the British throne) [one side of the cord connection is a sword; the other is a stone with a hole in the center]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihdil2atcav5pygpunsrfaitfx6rq5wgdrtwujwiy7ffpxswpkf2e)
Suppression of Ukrainian identity, promotion of anti-Ukraine propaganda, illegally compelling boys to register for the draft. Russian authorities in occupied Ukrainian territories are forcing Ukrainian children into a school system that violates their rights. New from HRW: https://bit.ly/4yow4lx
The Norwegian Football Association donated all proceeds and ticket revenues (totaling over $350,000) from their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Guess which team I’m rooting for . . .
🎤 We're excited to welcome Sofía Celi as the first keynote speaker at IEEE EuroS&P 2026. "Cryptography we want, Cryptography we're given: lessons from analysing and breaking the systems we deploy" #EuroSP26 #IEEEEuroSP #KeynoteSpeakers @claucece.bsky.social
This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A. You asked: is being openly trans on the internet harmful in this day and age with the current political situation? EFF's answer: In short, yes. But of course it's more complicated than that.
Spoke to @wgbh.org this morning about how the people of Massachusetts have resoundingly rejected dangerous and unconstitutional age verification legislation, how the new Senate bill is an improvement, but where it still needs significant work.
Data privacy advocate Evan Greer on Mass. Senate's social media bill, how to protect kids online
Evan Greer of Boston-based digital privacy group Fight for the Future joins GBH's Morning Edition to discuss a newly-released social media ban bill from the State Senate.
wgbh.org
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
Developers from Signal (including its protocol's co-creator) along with Microsoft and Harvard unveil Encrypted Spaces, an open-source codebase for a new generation of private collaboration apps. Think Slack, Discord, Google Docs, all end-to-end encrypted. www.wired.com/story/signal...
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
wired.com
📢 2026 ERC Advanced Grant call is open for applications! Are you an established, leading researcher who needs long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking research project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you. Application portal 👉 link.europa.eu/QCDXct #ERCAdG #research #grant #funding
Condé Nast shit the bed so hard when it fired four journalists last year that it's now settled with the union and given three out of the four reporters "two years’ pay and furnished [them] with positive letters of recommendation." UNIONS, PEOPLE. UNIONS! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Congratulations to Tal Rabin, Shubhangi Saraf, and Lisa Zhang, recognized by the SIGACT Distinguished Service Award for their role in making Theoretical Computer Science more welcoming and inclusive with the Women In Theory (WIT) workshop! sigact.org/prizes/servi... (via @gautamkamath.com)
2025 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
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Nominate yourself to help review papers for USENIX Security 2027! sec-rms.com/submit-appli... (or rms.swag.cispa.de/submit-appli... ). Deadline: May 28, 2026. We're looking for both senior and junior people. See Andrei Sabelfeld's LinkedIn post for more info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Signal PC interest - USENIX Security Symposium
sec-rms.com
I like this. If the paper contains hallucinated references, how can we trust anything else in it? By the way, I'll present our experience developing and using the hallucinator tool next week at MetaCrisp (co-located with IEEE S&P)! 📄 seclab.bu.edu/people/gianl... 💾 github.com/gianlucasb/h...
seclab.bu.edu
anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 3mo agowow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo agoI find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
Go MAYO!! Moving to the third round of the PQC NIST process!
This is today at 10am!
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 3mo agoTOMORROW: Wednesday, May 13th @fightforthefuture.org @massequality.bsky.social @progressivemass.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social and more will host a PRESS CONFERENCE outside the MA State House opposing dangerous "age verification" laws in the state. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...
NEW: Pope Leo XIV has named one of the Spanish-speaking parish priests at the center of D.C.’s ICE crackdown — three miles from the White House — as the next bishop of a Florida diocese in deep Trump country. Father Emilio Biosca has lost more than 40 parishioners to ICE detention and deportation.
ICE Came for His Parishioners. Now Pope Leo XIV Is Sending Their Pastor to Lead a Diocese in Trump’s Florida.
Father Emilio Biosca’s heavily Salvadoran Mount Pleasant parish has lost more than forty members to ICE detention and deportation since August. Now Pope Leo XIV is sending him to lead a Florida dioces...
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📢 HotPETs 2026 submission deadline is now extended to Friday, May 15, 2026 23:59 AoE. More details here: petsymposium.org/2026/hotpets... #PETS2026 #HotPETS2026
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2026
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We are happy to host Stefano Tessaro (@stefanotessaro.bsky.social), Anja Lehmann, Gregor Seiler, and Sofia Celi (@claucece.bsky.social) as keynote speakers in addition to the contributed talks. Check out the abstracts here: privcryptworkshop.github.io/keynotes.html
PrivCrypt 2026
privcryptworkshop.github.io
Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | Arwa Mahdawi
The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage
theguardian.com
NEW: @nathaliemarechal.net and I wrote for the @bostonglobe.com about the new push for "age verification" (aka mandatory online ID checks) in Massachusetts and how it will hurt kids and help Trump. Send this to people you know in MA and tell them to send it to their state senators & the governor!
A flawed fix for social media’s harms - The Boston Globe
The state’s approach could create new risks for users while letting tech companies off the hook.
bostonglobe.com
The talk that launched Local-First Conf in 2024. @martin.kleppmann.com speaking about the past present and future of local first.Get your tickets for our 2026 edition: www.localfirstconf.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMq0...
The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
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I would bet against Q day by 2030, but I wouldn't bet against it at 10:1 odds. ~10% risk is unacceptably high here, so I'm very in favor of transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography by 2029: blog.google/innovation-a... Yes this means I 90% expect to be made fun of in 2030. Oh well.
Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear
An overview of how Google is accelerating its timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration.
blog.google
Overdue quantum landscape update: sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_land... A 2d chart can only say so much. tl;dr new results are still overhyped, but definitely worth taking seriously. This chart is based on surface codes and a big question now is whether new codes can be practical (=>useless chart)
