-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Firefox developer position at Indiana University Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:05:34 -0400 From: Greg Norcie <[email protected]>
Hello. My name is Greg Norcie I'm a graduate student in the security informatics program at Indiana University. in is looking for a temporary Firefox developer. (2.5 years, possibly extended further via soft money) to assist myself and my advisor (Jean Camp) on usable security projects, one of which being the usability of the Tor Browser Bundle. See the link below for an example of previous work on this subject: http://petsymposium.org/2012/papers/hotpets12-1-usability.pdf We are currently working on implementing and testing changes to the TBB to enhance usability. (These changes will be passed along to the Tor Project.) Your task will be implementing changes driven by our research findings by writing Firefox extensions and performing other web programming tasks to aid our research Formal job posting is below - apply at this link: https://jobs.iu.edu/joblisting/index.cfm?jlnum=8019&search=2 A note on fringe benefits: It should be noted that as an Indiana University employee, you will be eligible for free and reduced tuition. Hirees will, if desired, be admitted to the university's security informatics department, where one could pick up a master's degree for very cheap during their time in Bloomington. You will also be provided with health insurance and a generous salary. Speaking of salary it should be noted that Bloomington is a great little college town - very cheap cost of living - I have lived in SF, and I spend roughly a third on rent what I did there. There's also a vibrant art and music scene, it's a bit of a hidden gem. 8019 - Firefox Developer, Informatics Job Summary: Contributes to the creation of an advanced usable security environment based on machine-learning, knowledge presentation and reasoning. Works with the adaptive intelligence team to implement changes in storage, input checking, simple comparisons of encrypted data, and implement interactions cooperatively with a UI research team. Works with a small multi-university research team to create and implement a new approach to strengthening real-life cybersecurity by unobtrusively yet effectively guiding computer users towards intelligent security decisions in the fact of changing requirements and circumstances. The system constructed will maintain a model of state for both the user and their surrounding environment, and use-predefined metaphors to dynamically inform the user of emerging risk and strategies for protection or mitigation. Qualifications: Review your qualifications prior to applying to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications for the position. Resume and cover letter required. REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and two years of computer programming and software development experience. Comfortable implementing complex scripting control, browser-centric management systems and tools. Preferred: Master’s degree; specific experience with writing extensions for the Firefox browser. Other: This position is for an experienced software developer with an interest in applied research in computer security. Applications accepted until position is filled. THE SCHOOL Indiana University is the home to the Abilene Networking Operations Center, the Network Operations Center for Internet2. Indiana University is also the home of the ISAC for all Research and Education Networks, RENiSAC, which provides a critical source of data and expertise for faculty research. The School of Informatics has the support of University Information Technology Services for networking research with experimental or applied components. Indiana University also includes the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and the Pervasive Computing Laboratories. Indiana University is also home to “Big Red,” one of the most powerful university-owned computers in the U.S. and one of the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world. The University is a center of excellence in security, funded by NSF, DHS, NASA, DoD, and DARPA, as well as collaborations with industry. The University is a center of excellence in security, funded by NSF, DHS, NASA, DHS, DoD, and DARPA, as well as collaborations with industry. We have a policy of not engaging in classified research, because the interests of the students in terms of publishing and reputation-building comes first. THE TOWN In addition to world-class research facilities, Bloomington is an arts oasis with the world renowned IU School of Music, which hosts two symphonies, an opera company, three theater companies, as well as being a reliable stop of traveling Broadway shows. The IU Art Museum and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures offer collections ranging from ancient glass to cutting edge installations. Bloomington is very hospitable to those with an active lifestyle, consistently being in the top ten cycling towns in the United States, as well as being rated as one of the Top 50 Adventure towns by National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Bloomington is a destination in food tourism. Bloomington is frequently identified as offering an extremely high quality of life. THE PEOPLE Jean Camp, Professor I am a Professor in the department of Informatics. My core interests are the economics and behavioral components of security and privacy in commerce and government. It was this interest that led me from graduate electrical engineering research in North Carolina to the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, and it remained my core interests as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia National Laboratories I focused on computer security. I left Sandia National Laboratories for Harvard's Kennedy School. As a tenured Professor in Informatics I research the social informatics of security. The developer would report to me. Minaxi Gupta, Associate Professor Minaxi Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at IUB. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2004. She has interned at Motorola, IBM, T. J. Watson, and Hewlett Packard labs and has completed one-third of the course work for an M.B.A in Finance from Dupree College of Management at Georgia Tech. Her primary research interests are in computer networks. She is interested in designing the next generation Internet services, protocols, and security measures driven by a real-world characterization of Internet usage by a variety of scientific and non-scientific user-communities that rely on diverse applications and physical technologies. Raquel Hill, Associate Professor Raquel Hill earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1993 respectively. From 1993 to 1996, she was a Member of Scientific Staff at Nortel Networks in RTP, North Carolina. In November, 2002, she received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Dr. Hill was a Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech from November 2002 to August 2003. From August 2003 to July 2005, she was a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science and the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA). Dr. Hill's research interests include developing security protocols and mechanisms for wired and wireless infrastructures. She has specific interests in developing security mechanisms that leverage the use of context in environments where the context may change frequently, (i.e. pervasive computing environments). Steven Myers, Associate Professor Steve Myers received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2005 for his work on cryptography under the supervision of Charles Rackoff. He interned at the Mathematical Research Division of Telcordia Technologies and developed and implemented technology for Echoworx Corp., a Web-security based start-up company. He has been at Indiana University, Bloomington since August of 2004, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Myer’s interests include cryptography, systems security. In particular he has interests in the development of block-ciphers and their theoretical foundations, public-key cryptographic primitives and secure multi-party computing. In the areas of systems security he has interest in the prevention of phishing, digital fraud, viruses and malware. He is the author of many articles and several book chapters relating to cryptography and phishing, and, along with Markus Jakobsson, is the editor of the book "Phishing and Countermeasures" by Wiley Press. XiaoFeng Wang, Assistant Professor XiaoFeng Wang received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. He joined Indiana University at Bloomington as an assistant professor in 2004. Dr. Wang’s research interests span all areas of computer and communication security. In particular, he is carrying out active research on massive cyber attacks (malware and denial of service), privacy (theory and applications of anonymity systems) and incentive engineering. Apu Kapadia, Assistant Professor Ap Kapadia's research is mainly in the area of privacy-enhancing technologies. Specifically, he has been actively working on i) techniques that facilitate anonymous access to online services but still with some degree of accountability, and ii) usable mechanisms that improve security and privacy in decentralized and mobile environments. -- Greg Norcie PhD student, Security Informatics Indiana University _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
