Junior Research Group Leader at MPI-SP, studying the ethics and consumer harms of emerging technologies. In bsky: @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social
Joined November 2018
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For those at #CHI2025: if anyone is feeling confused, anxious, stressed, and/or feeling feelings around travelling back to the US, you are not alone! Join us during Wednesday's lunch (G314) to vent / share tips / offer support with others going through the same worries!
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⏱️9 days until submission deadline (Dec 11, 23:59 AoE).
Organized by: @YannicNoller, Rohan (@moarbugs) Padhye, @RuijieMeng, and Laszlo (@lszekeres) Szekeres.
#FUZZING'26 CALL FOR PAPERS
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✨After 5 years, we will be again co-located with NDSS!
🔗 fuzzing-workshop.github.io
📅 11. Dec (Submission)
//cc Marcel Böhme (@mboehme_; MPI-SWS), @RuijieMeng (CISPA), Rohan Padhye (@moarbugs; CMU), László Szekeres (@lszekeres; Google)
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🚨BREAKING: We've stopped #ChatControl for good!
Until a new Council Presidency tries again...
But for now, we can enjoy our success. Thanks everyone for fighting for #privacy along with us! ❤️ 👏
Hello! Has anyone here used tango (tangocard.com/) to pay participants for research studies? I was curious in using it, but wanted to see if there was anyone who had used it before who could talk about their experience with it, if they'd recommend it, etc.
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🚨🇪🇺BREAKING: EU is preparing to launch mass surveillance of social media users.
Under the guise of “security,” Brussels is preparing to vote on a law that will end private messaging forever.
No, it’s not North Korea, Russia, or Iran it’s the so-called democratic EU.
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📣 Germany is close to reversing its principled opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private —& Signal—in the EU.
Time is short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how harmful, counterproductive, and self-sabotaging their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
Chat Control is the latest example of "But think about the children!" (BTATC) proposal that ends privacy as we know it. It would have an algorithm scan your messages, detect whether its illegal content, and report it to authorities. What actually happens: mass surveillance.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
Like all BTATC policies, it doesnt solve the problem it claims to solve, and introduces a whole potential of civil rights violations, including loss to privacy. What is today an algorithm scanning for illegal content could turn into scanning content critical of the government.
For more information about the flaws in Chat Control: csa-scientist-open-letter.or…
And a video: nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/8…
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Why is it so hard to give a fair transaction to the customer these days?
The customer already paid for the game, why do you need a post-sale EULA that sounds so shady to the point piracy seems like the most valid alternative?
Get paid, give them the game, end of story. If you need to protect your property, try to be ethical about it at least.
We’ve seen recent reports about Ubisoft’s End-User License Agreement (EULA), focusing on a clause related to what happens when a license ends. Thanks for raising this issue!
As noted in some articles, this clause is not new — it has been part of our EULA for more than 10 years. It was originally designed as a formal legal provision to clarify that once a license ends, the user no longer has rights to access or use the product.
We understand that the language in the clause may sound unusually strong or out of step with how players experience and value their games, and are reviewing this clause as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure our policies reflect players’ expectations and the evolving nature of our industry.
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The initiative now has 1.3 million signatures! I think for most initiatives we would be safe, but since this one is unconventional and we still don't have data on how many are real or not, that can't be assumed. Friends & family in the EU can sign also!
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
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The site says we have cleared 1 million signatures! I hate being like this, but there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real. That means we have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them! I'll have a video on this later today.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
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Signature collection for the #StopKillingGames initiative against planned obsolescence of video games is ending in a few weeks. If you're from Europe, please sign the petition and support game preservation! Links below:
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Here is what Ross said in August, for the curious: youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9Mxx…
We need AT LEAST 1.2-1.3 million, and even more buffer to account for invalid signatures! We need every VALID signature we can get!
KEEP GOING AND #STOPKILLINGGAMES
IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL IT'S OVER
We have passed 900k signatures! I said this in August, and I hate saying it again: Every person who makes a mistake on the signing gets theirs invalidated, so we have to go into overdrive to make up for them. 10%? 20%? 40%? We can't stop at 1 million!
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing the #StopKillingGames initiative! It would make game companies let players play games they have purchased even after official support ends. Great for game preservation and consumer rights! More info here: stopkillinggames.com/
ALT Graphic showing the following text: In the 90s and early 2000s, players could keep and play games they bought indefinitely - either offline or on community run servers - even after official support ended. Today, many games require constant online access, and once servers shut down, they become completely unplayable. Stop Killing Games is an initiative aiming to require companies to allow players to play the games they purchased even after official support ends. If you're an EU or UK citizen, sign the petition at www.StopKillingGames.com by July 31st to help protect game preservation.
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BREAKING: this morning we received news of the FBI executing search warrants against multiple pro-Palestine organizers at the university, including at least one GEO member. This is an alarming escalation by the university and state. The situation is developing; more soon.
Moving basically full time to bluesky, find me at @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social
(link: bsky.app/profile/abrahammhai…)
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Very lucky to receive the ERC Consolidator this year! This is 5-year funding for groundbreaking research.
If you are interested in our perspective on software security analysis at scale, stick around and read on.
@ERC_Research #ERCCoG #MPI_SP @CASA_EXC
mpi-sp.org/71953/news_public…
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✨ We are hiring PhD Interns at Microsoft Research ✨
Please apply and ping me if interested :)
More details available in the LinkedIn post: linkedin.com/posts/activity-…
