Lorrie Cranor

@lorrietweet

Password researcher & fashion idol. Bad-ass cyberfeminist. Usable privacy & security prof. Quilter. Runs after 3 kids + soccer balls.

Pittsburgh, PA, USA lorrie.cranor.org Joined November 2009

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Lorrie Cranor @lorrietweet Oct 9, 2024

I'm thrilled to join the board of directors of CDT! I first worked with them on P3P in the late 1990s and have been a fan ever since!

Center for Democracy & Technology @CenDemTech Oct 8, 2024

.@CenDemTech is pleased to welcome Dr. Lorrie Cranor (@lorrietweet) to its Board of Directors 👏👏👏 Dr. Cranor is an expert in #privacy, security, technology, and public policy, currently on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. cdt.org/press/technolo…
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Lorrie Cranor @lorrietweet Sep 23, 2024

We're hiring security and privacy faculty at @CarnegieMellon

CyLab @CyLab Sep 23, 2024

.@CyLab is leading a university-wide priority hiring search for tenure-track faculty who focus on #security or #privacy. Learn more and apply today: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2024/09/2…

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Lorrie Cranor @lorrietweet Oct 6, 2023

I've taken my bad #password dress to the next level: bad password ball gown.... lorrie.cranor.org/blog/2023/10/0…

Lorrie Cranor @lorrietweet Aug 16, 2023

So proud of my PhD student -- and I didn't have anything to do with this paper as she wrote it as an undergrad at Chicago working with one of my graduated PhD students

CyLab @CyLab Aug 11, 2023

CMU Ph.D. student Alexandra Nisenoff is the first author of three papers being presented at the 32nd @USENIXSecurity Symposium, and earned a Distinguished Paper Award for 'A Two-Decade Retrospective Analysis of a University's Vulnerability to Attacks Exploiting Reused Passwords.'
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Lorrie Cranor @lorrietweet May 5, 2023

Cookie banners are annoying but including an X to close results in users having no idea what they are consenting to or not. @ElijahBoumaSims presented our empirical study on banner design elements at #chi2023

CyLab @CyLab May 5, 2023

Cookie consent banners have become a common sight on websites, allowing users to make choices about how their personal information is collected and shared. But CyLab researchers say many of these banners miss the mark and may not be the best way to offer users privacy options.
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