Miranda Wei

Publications

Computer Science

Sharenting on TikTok: Exploring Parental Sharing Behaviors and the Discourse Around Children’s Online Privacy. Sophie Stephenson, Christopher Nathaniel Page, Miranda Wei, Apu Kapadia, Franziska Roesner. To appear at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2024.

It’s Trying Too Hard To Look Real: Deepfake Moderation Mistakes and Identity-Based Bias. Jaron Mink, Miranda Wei, Collins W. Munyendo, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, Gang Wang. To appear at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2024.

A Two-Decade Retrospective Analysis of a University’s Vulnerability to Attacks Exploiting Reused Passwords. Alexandra Nisenoff, Maximilian Golla, Miranda Wei, Juliette Hainline, Hayley Szymanek, Annika Braun, Annika Hildebrandt, Blair Christensen, David Langenberg, Blase Ur. USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2023.
[paper]
:star: Distinguished Paper Award.

Skilled or Gullible? Gender Stereotypes Related to Computer Security and Privacy. Miranda Wei, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), San Francisco, May 2023.
[paper, slides]

“There’s so much responsibility on users right now:” Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment. Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Thomas. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr. 2023.
[paper, supplemental materials, talk]

Anti-Privacy and Anti-Security Advice on TikTok: Case Studies of Technology-Enabled Surveillance and Control in Intimate Partner and Parent-Child Relationships. Miranda Wei, Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Boston, Aug. 2022.
[paper, slides, talk]

Styx++: Reliable Data Access and Availability Using a Hybrid Paxos and Chain Replication Protocol. Ather Sharif, Emilia F. Gan, Miranda Wei. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), Apr. 2022.
[paper]

Polls, Clickbait, and Commemorative $2 Bills: Problematic Political Advertising on News and Media Websites Around the 2020 U.S. Elections. Eric Zeng, Miranda Wei, Theo Gregersen, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nov. 2021.
[paper, project page, talk]
:star: Runner-Up for Best Paper Award.

On the Limited Impact of Visualizing Encryption: Perceptions of E2E Messaging Security Christian Stransky, Dominik Wermke, Johanna Schrader, Nicolas Huaman, Yasemin Acar, Anna Lena Fehlhaber, Miranda Wei, Blase Ur, Sascha Fahl. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Online, August 2021.
[paper]

What Twitter Knows: Characterizing Ad Targeting Practices, User Perceptions, and Ad Explanations Through Users’ Own Twitter Data. Miranda Wei, Madison Stamos, Sophie Veys, Nathan Reitinger, Justin Goodman, Margot Herman, Dorota Filipczuk, Ben Weinshel, Michelle L. Mazurek, Blase Ur. USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2020.
[paper, slides]

Taking Data Out of Context to Hyper-Personalize Ads: Crowdworkers’ Privacy Perceptions and Decisions to Disclose Private Information. Julia Hanson*, Miranda Wei*, Sophie Veys, Matthew Kugler, Lior Strahilevitz, Blase Ur. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr. 2020. * This is a co-first authored publication.
[paper, slides]
:star: Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.

Oh, the Places You’ve Been! User Reactions to Longitudinal Transparency About Third-Party Web Tracking and Inferencing. Ben Weinshel, Miranda Wei, Mainack Mondal, Euirim Choi, Shawn Shan, Claire Dolin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Blase Ur. ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Nov. 2019.
[paper, slides]

“What was that site doing with my Facebook password?” Designing Password-Reuse Notifications. Maximilian Golla, Miranda Wei, Juliette Hainline, Lydia Filipe, Markus Dürmuth, Blase Ur. ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 2018.
[paper, slides]

Exploring User Mental Models of End-to-End Encrypted Communication Tools. Ruba Abu-Salma, Elissa Redmiles, Blase Ur, Miranda Wei. USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), Aug. 2018.
[paper]

The Password Doesn’t Fall Far: How Services Influence Password Choice. Miranda Wei, Maximilian Golla, Blase Ur. Who Are You?! Adventures in Authentication Workshop (WAY), Aug. 2018.
[paper, slides]

Your Secrets are Safe: How Browsers’ Explanations Impact Misconceptions About Private Browsing Mode. Yuxi Wu, Panya Gupta, Miranda Wei, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl, Blase Ur. TheWebConf (TheWebConf), Apr. 2018.
[paper, slides]

Political Science

ISIS Anashid and the Logic of Imagined Communities. Department of Political Science, Honors BA Thesis, May 2017.
[paper excerpt, poster presented at MPSA]

ISIS Campaign Propaganda Profile. CPOST Report for the Department of Defense, Sept. 2016.

Eradicating suicide terrorism in Pakistan. Chicago Tribune, Oct. 30, 2015. (co-written w/Prof. Robert Pape)
[link]

Getting ISIS Out of Iraq. The New York Times, Apr. 20, 2015. (co-written w/Prof. Robert Pape)
[link]

Talks

Everything but the User: Reducing Password Reuse. PasswordsCon, Nov. 2018.
[slides]