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Daniel Zappala
@zappala.bsky.social
human-centered security research at BYU
I was up there this summer and it was gorgeous. Utah is pretty good right now too.
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Curious how you secure your e-bike while running errands
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This paper measured propaganda accounts and was at USENIX Security. Much more of a quantitative approach. But I get 💕 for a good qualitative paper.

www.usenix.org/conference/u...
Characterizing and Detecting Propaganda-Spreading Accounts on Telegram | USENIX
www.usenix.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
You see significant overlap and PCs in human-centered security among the above and SOUPS. For CHI, the security and privacy subcommittee in particular.

Since it’s participatory maybe CSCW but I’m less familiar with it.
September 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You could make an argument that propaganda campaigns fit under the security umbrella. And USENIX Security has a good set of reviewers that understand and accept qualitative work. Same with IEEE S&P. CCS is a work in progress.

Alternatively maybe CHI, but the registration deadline just passed.
September 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh that’s an interesting form of quality control. Are you using a local instance? I would worry that, even if the venue doesn’t prohibit its use, I would be feeding training data to the LLM without the authors’ consent.
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Can you share how you use an LLM to help you with your reviews? Maybe you can convince me that I should try.
July 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Oh I will read this. In the meantime, what is the best way for us to organize popular support for citizenship for undocumented immigrants? I’m no longer interested in “balanced” immigration reform. A simple citizenship process for the vast majority of undocumented immigrants. Who is organizing this?
July 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Your article concludes that an information ecosystem needs to get people excited about what they have to offer. I would love to see legacy outlets get creative with weekly news summaries, wikis for recurring issues, and taking a stronger position on identifying who is telling the truth.
July 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Oh hey! Been reading a set of mystery novels set there!
July 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM