Stuart Schechter

Publications
- Maritza Johnson, Steven M. Bellovin, Robert W. Reeder, and Stuart Schechter, Laissez-faire file sharing: Access control designed for individuals at the endpoints, in New Security Paradigms Workshop, 10 September 2009
- Stuart Schechter and Robert W. Reeder, 1 + 1 = You: Measuring the comprehensibility of metaphors for configuring backup authentication, in The 2009 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 15 July 2009
- Stuart Schechter, A. J. Bernheim Brush, and Serge Egelman, It's no secret: Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions, in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, Berkeley, CA, USA, 17 May 2009
- Stuart Schechter, Serge Egelman, and Robert W. Reeder, It's Not What You Know, But Who You Know: A social approach to last-resort authentication, in CHI '09: Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 April 2009
- Amy K. Karlson, A.J. Bernheim Brush, and Stuart Schechter, Can I Borrow Your Phone? Understanding Concerns When Sharing Mobile Phones, pp. 1647-1650, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2009
- Stuart E. Schechter, Rachna Dhamija, Andy Ozment, and Ian Fischer, The Emperor's New Security Indicators: An evaluation of website authentication and the effect of role playing on usability studies, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, May 2007
- Andy Ozment and Stuart Schechter, Milk or Wine: Does Software Security Improve with Age?, in Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2006
- Andy Ozment and Stuart E. Schechter, Bootstrapping the Adoption of Internet Security Protocols, in The Fifth Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Cambridge, UK, June 2006
- Andy Ozment, Stuart E. Schechter, and Rachna Dhamija, Web Sites Should Not Need to Rely on Users to Secure Communications, in W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication, New York, NY, USA, March 2006
- Stuart E. Schechter, Jaeyeon Jung, Will Stockwell, and Cynthia McLain, Inoculating SSH Against Address Harvesting, in Proceedings of The 13th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'06), San Diego, CA, February 2006
RESEARCHER
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Upcoming conferences:
2009
WEIS (program committee)
SOUPS (prog. com. & author)
MetriSec (program committee)
2010
IEEE S&P (program committee)
SOUPS (tech papers co-chair)
Interns:
You? (2010)
Jennifer Tam (Jul-Sep, 2009)
Serge Egelman (2008)
Maritza Johnson (2008)
Andy Ozment (MIT LL 2006)
Will Stockwell (MIT LL 2006)



