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Books Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Susan landau women of vision winner social impact
Susan Landau (born June 3, 1954, New York City) is an American mathematician, engineer, cybersecurity policy expert, and Professor of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She previously worked as a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department, Harvard University in 2012.
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- Susan landau women of vision winner social impact
- Susan landau does wiretapping make us more secure
- Career
- Involvement with FBI v Apple case
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Susan landau does wiretapping make us more secure
Career
Landau received her Bachelor's at Princeton (1976), her Master's at Cornell (1979), and her PhD at MIT (1983).
In 2010–2011, she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, where she investigated issues involving security of government systems, and their privacy and policy implications.
From 1999 until 2010, she specialized in internet security at Sun Microsystems.
In 1989, she introduced the first algorithm for deciding which nested radicals can be denested, which is known as Landau's algorithm.
In 1972, her project on odd perfect numbers won a finalist position in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Outside of her technical work, she is interested in the issues of women in science, maintaining the ResearcHers Email list, a "community dedicated to supporting women new to research in computing", and an online bibliography of women's writing in computer science. She was awarded the 2008 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Social Impact. She has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1999, and in 2011 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In October of 2015, Landau was inducted into the National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame.
Involvement with FBI v. Apple case
Landau gave testimony in the FBI-Apple encryption dispute between 2015 and 2016. She is the co-author of “Keys Under Doormats: Mandating Insecurity by Requiring Government Access to All Data and Communications,” which received the 2015 J.D. Falk Award from the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group. The Obama administration gave substantial credit to this report’s analysis when it announced that it would not pursue exceptional access to phone data.
Landau testified that making iPhones less secure would simply send terrorists and bad actors running toward options that the FBI and Congress had no control over. Compelling Apple to weaken its software would "weaken us, but not impact the bad guys."