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Page: Feed: --- ## [\[USENIX Security 2026, Baltimore, MD, USA\] Poster, Artifact Chair, and Session Chair](https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-adoption.pdf) _2026-08-10 · Yohan Beugin_ I am attending USENIX Security 2026 and also presenting a poster (https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-adoption.pdf) on my latest work: Lessons from the Adoption and Deprecation of the Privacy Sandbox Web APIs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26390). ## [\[PETS 2026, Calgary, Canada\] Poster, Artifact Chair, and Session Chair](https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-adoption.pdf) _2026-07-20 · Yohan Beugin_ I am attending PETS 2026 as artifact chair, chair for the web privacy session, and also presenting a poster (https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-adoption.pdf) on my latest work: Lessons from the Adoption and Deprecation of the Privacy Sandbox Web APIs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26390). ## [\[Guest Talk at UCalgary\] Lessons from Analyzing Google’s Privacy Sandbox Proposals](https://science.ucalgary.ca/computer-science) _2026-07-17 · Yohan Beugin_ I am giving a guest talk at UCalgary: Lessons from Analyzing Google’s Privacy Sandbox Proposals. Thank you Miti for hosting me! ## [\[Preprint\] Lessons from the Adoption and Deprecation of the Privacy Sandbox Web APIs](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.26390) _2026-06-26 · Yohan Beugin_ Authors: Yohan Beugin, Paul Barford, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.2639057) and the code (https://github.com/privacysandstorm/ps-api-adoption-deprecation). ## [\[IEEE S&P 2026, San Francisco, CA, USA\] Poster](https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-uw-capitol.pdf) _2026-05-18 · Yohan Beugin_ I am attending IEEE S&P 2026 and presenting a poster (https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-sok.pdf) on our recent SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14057). ## [\[Guest Talk at UCDavis\] Lessons from Analyzing Google’s Privacy Sandbox Proposals](https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/events/computer-science-colloquium-series-lessons-analyzing-googles-privacy-sandbox-proposals) _2026-05-14 · Yohan Beugin_ I am giving a guest talk at UCDavis: Lessons from Analyzing Google’s Privacy Sandbox Proposals (https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/events/computer-science-colloquium-series-lessons-analyzing-googles-privacy-sandbox-proposals). Thank you Zubair for hosting me! ## [\[Preprint\] Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.07900) _2026-05-11 · Yohan Beugin_ Authors: Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Kyle Domico, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.07900). ## [\[Poster\] UW-Madison Day at the Capitol](https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-uw-capitol.pdf) _2026-04-29 · Yohan Beugin_ I am presenting a poster (https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2026-uw-capitol.pdf) on my research on web tracking at the UW-Madison Day at the Capitol (https://staterelations.wisc.edu/uw-madison-day-at-the-capitol/). ## \[Paper\] Our paper has been accepted to IMC 2026! _2026-03-13 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: Honey Configs: Measuring The Emerging Exploitation of Cloud IP - Authors: Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Paul Barford, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel ## [\[Chapter\] The 2025 Web Almanac: Cookies](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/cookies) _2026-01-15 · Yohan Beugin_ The 2025 Web Almanac was released today, this is an annual "state of the web" report published by the HTTP Archive. This year, I contributed as an author to the Cookies chapter (https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/cookies). ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/y1f8wwJxjCbC) _2026-01-15 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [\[Paper\] Our paper has been accepted to IEEE SaTML 2026!](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16534) _2025-12-11 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs - Authors: Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16534) and the code (https://github.com/MadSP-McDaniel/targeting-alignment). ## [\[Technical Report\] The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.03207) _2025-12-04 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: Technical Report: The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox - Authors: Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel - Research portal: https://privacysandstorm.com/ ## [\[Blog\] Typst and new slides setup](https://yohan.beugin.org/posts/2025_11_new_slides_setup.html) _2025-11-07 · Yohan Beugin_ Overview of Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system and ecosystem that feels mature enough to start taking on and replacing LaTex for several use cases, and how I have started to use it for several documents like my CV and also my slides: https://yohan.beugin.org/posts/2025\_11\_new\_slides\_setup.html ## [\[Blog\] No AI content in search results](https://yohan.beugin.org/posts/2025_10_no_ai_content_in_search_results.html) _2025-10-07 · Yohan Beugin_ Quick trick to remove AI-generated content from my search results: https://yohan.beugin.org/posts/2025\_10\_no\_ai\_content\_in\_search\_results.html ## [\[Blog\] Trixie upgrade notes](https://yohan.beugin.org/posts/2025_09_trixie_upgrade_notes.html) _2025-09-27 · Yohan Beugin_ Some notes and fixes after the upgrade of my laptop from bookworm to trixie; the latest stable version of the Debian distributiona are posted here: https://yohan.beugin.org/posts/2025\_09\_trixie\_upgrade\_notes.html ## [\[Workshop\] Our paper has been accepted to SURE 2025!](https://github.com/libiht/libiht) _2025-08-14 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: LibIHT: A Hardware-Based Approach to Efficient and Evasion-Resistant Dynamic Binary Analysis - Authors: Changyu Zhao, Yohan Beugin, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Quinn Burke, Guancheng Li, Patrick McDaniel - Code: https://github.com/libiht/libiht ## [\[Award\] Distinguished Artifact Reviewer for USENIX Security 2025](https://secartifacts.github.io/usenixsec2025/awards#-distinguished-reviewer-awards) _2025-08-14 · Yohan Beugin_ I have been recognized as a Distinguished Artifact Reviewer at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '25), three years in a row! ## [\[Award/Service\] Distinguished Artifact Reviewer for PETS 2025 + Artifact Chair for PETS 2026 and 2027](https://petsymposium.org/cfp26.php) _2025-07-17 · Yohan Beugin_ I have been recognized as a Distinguished Artifact Reviewer at the 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025). I am also happy to announce that I will be serving as Artifact Chair for PETS 2026 and 2027! If you have any suggestions for the artifact process, feel free to reach out (artifact26@petsymposium.org). ## [\[Paper\] Our paper has been accepted to ICCV 2025!](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.14836) _2025-06-26 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: On the Robustness Tradeoff in Fine-Tuning - Authors: Kunyang Li, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.14836) and the code (https://github.com/kyangl/robustness-finetuning). ## [\[Preprint\] SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.14057) _2025-06-18 · Yohan Beugin_ Authors: Yash Vekaria, Yohan Beugin, Shaoor Munir, Gunes Acar, Nataliia Bielova, Steven Englehardt, Umar Iqbal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Pierre Laperdrix, Nick Nikiforakis, Jason Polakis, Franziska Roesner, Zubair Shafiq, Sebastian Zimmeck - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.14057) and the extended live version… ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RP0RpughguMB) _2025-06-18 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [\[Poster\] Google Research Conference on Ads Privacy](https://yohan.beugin.org/files/posters/2024_topics_pets_secweb.pdf) _2025-06-04 · Yohan Beugin_ I am excited to be in Mountain View, CA for the Google Research Conference on Ads Privacy. Thanks a lot to Google for the invitation and the travel award to support my participation! I am looking forward to the talks, discussion, and networking. I will be presenting my poster "Privacy & Utility Analyses of the Topics API for the Web"… ## [\[Samsung START Program\] Our proposal was shortlisted as finalist](https://sra.samsung.com/collaboration/start/) _2025-04-30 · Yohan Beugin_ The research proposal written with my advisor has been shortlisted as finalist for the SAMSUNG START program. ## [\[Paper\] Our paper has been accepted to IEEE S&P 2025!](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.07041) _2025-03-13 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: Efficient Storage Integrity in Adversarial Settings - Authors: Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Owen Hines, Michael Swift, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.07041) and the code (https://github.com/MadSP-McDaniel/pac). ## [\[Preprint\] Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16534) _2025-01-29 · Yohan Beugin_ Authors: Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16534) and code (https://github.com/MadSP-McDaniel/targeting-alignment). ## [\[Chapter\] The 2024 Web Almanac: Cookies](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cookies) _2024-11-11 · Yohan Beugin_ The 2024 Web Almanac was released today, this is an annual "state of the web" report published by the HTTP Archive. This year's edition introduces a dedicated chapter on Cookies on which I contributed as an author and analyst (https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cookies). ## [\[Journal\] Our paper has been accepted to IEEE TDSC!](https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2024.3474423) _2024-09-29 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: Securing Cloud File Systems with Trusted Execution - Authors: Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Rachel King, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Mingli Yu, Ting He, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.18639) and code (https://github.com/MadSP-McDaniel/bfs). ## [\[Paper\] Our paper has been accepted to NDSS 2025!](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.14999) _2024-09-12 · Yohan Beugin_ Title: Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale - Authors: Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Engin Kirda, Patrick McDaniel - Here is the arXiv link (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.14999) and the code (https://github.com/MadSP-McDaniel/eipsim).