Sarah Scheffler will lead “Lend Me Your Ear: Passive Remote Physical Side Channels on PCs” by Daniel Genkin, Noam Nissan, Roei Schuster, and Eran Tromer, appearing at Usenix 2022: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22summer_genkin.pdf .  This looks to be a fun paper, they demonstrate how to use their attack to (1) snoop on web browsing, (2) learn crypto keys, and (3) cheat at video games (or as they put it, “the killer application”).

The Security and Privacy Reading Group is for those who want to read recent papers in security and privacy. Our goal is to understand the state-of-the-art in digital security and privacy. Papers can include the latest conference papers and influential papers. We’ll maintain a broad definition of security to encourage diversity of ideas and cross-talk between disciplines.

Please contact Sarah Scheffler at for further information and to receive the Zoom link for the meetings.