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Christopher Soghoian is a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University's School of Informatics. He is advised in his graduate studies by Markus Jakobsson @ PARC.

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, several media firestorms, and occasionally, cease and desist letters.

He has consulted for, worked at or interned with 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.

He currently writes the Surveillance State blog at CNET Networks/CBS.

• Christopher Soghoian, Imad Aad, Merx: Secure and Privacy Preserving Delegated Payments, To Appear, Trust 2009.


• Christopher Soghoian, Legal Risks For Phishing Researchers, The Third Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Researchers Summit, October 2008.


• 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.