Publications

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• Tinker, Tailor, Trust: How Developers Create Privacy Policies With and Without AI
  S. Mayahi, N. Alomar, N. Malkin
  CHI 2026 (Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

• How Experts Personalize Privacy & Security Advice for At-Risk Users
  W. Guo, A. Yang, N. Malkin, M. Mazurek
  PETS 2026 (Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium)

• Privacy Solution or Menace? Investigating Perceptions of Radio Frequency Sensing
  M. Windl, O. Akgul, N. Malkin, L. Cranor
  USENIX Security 2025 (Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium)

• Do You See If I See? Investigating Reciprocity in Interpersonal Access-Control Settings
  N. Malkin, A. Luo, E. Zhao, M. Mazurek
  SOUPS 2025 (Proceedings of the on Usable Privacy and Security)

• “That's Something That as a Senior Person You Have to Consider Now”: Unpacking Older Adults' Preferences for End-of-Life Data Planning
  R. Thangaraj, J. Brubaker, N. Malkin, A. Pradhan
  ACM DIS 2025 (Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference)

• How do Cyber-Risks Vary Across Smart City Technologies?
  G. Abreu, A. Pan, A. Post, N. Malkin, K. Frick
  Journal of Urban Technology, 2025

• Understanding How People Share Passwords
  P. Moh, A. Yang, N. Malkin, M. Mazurek
  SOUPS 2024 (Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security)

• Write, Read, or Fix? Exploring Alternative Methods for Secure Development Studies
  K. Fulton, J. Lewis, N. Malkin, M. Mazurek
  SOUPS 2024 (Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security)

• Optimistic Access Control for the Smart Home
  N. Malkin, A. Luo, J. Poveda, M. Mazurek
  IEEE S&P 2023 (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

• Is Cryptographic Deniability Sufficient? Non-Expert Perceptions of Deniability in Secure Messaging
  N. Reitinger, N. Malkin, O. Akgul, M. Mazurek, I. Miers
  IEEE S&P 2023 (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

• Characterizing Everyday Misuse of Smart Home Devices
  P. Moh, P. Datta, N. Warford, A. Bates, N. Malkin, M. Mazurek
  IEEE S&P 2023 (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

• Contextual Integrity, Explained: A More Usable Privacy Definition
  N. Malkin
  IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 2023

• Incidental Incremental In-Band Fingerprint Verification: a Novel Authentication Ceremony for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
  N. Malkin
  NSPW 2022 (Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop)

• Can Humans Detect Malicious Always-Listening Assistants? A Framework for Crowdsourcing Test Drives
  N. Malkin, D. Wagner, S. Egelman
  CSCW 2022 (Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction)

• Runtime Permissions for Privacy in Proactive Intelligent Assistants
  N. Malkin, D. Wagner, S. Egelman
  SOUPS 2022 (Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security)

• Effects of Privacy Permissions on User Choices in Voice Assistant App Stores
  G. Liu and N. Malkin
  PETS 2022 (Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium)

• SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research
  N. Warford, T. Matthews, K. Yang, O. Akgul, S. Consolvo, P. G. Kelley, N. Malkin, M. Mazurek, M. Sleeper, K. Thomas
  IEEE S&P 2022 (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

• Privacy Controls for Always-Listening Devices
  N. Malkin
  PhD thesis, 2021

• Investigating Users' Preferences and Expectations for Always-Listening Voice Assistants
  M. Tabassum, T. Kosiński, A. Frik, N. Malkin, P. Wijesekera, S. Egelman, H. Richter Lipford
  UbiComp 2020 (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies)

• Nudge me right: Personalizing online security nudges to people's decision-making styles
  E. Peer, S. Egelman, M. Harbach, N. Malkin, A. Frik
  Computers in Human Behavior, 2020

• Privacy Controls for Always-Listening Devices
  N. Malkin, S. Egelman, D. Wagner
  NSPW 2019 (Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop)

• Privacy Attitudes of Smart Speaker Users
  N. Malkin, J. Deatrick, A. Tong, P. Wijesekera, S. Egelman, D. Wagner
  PETS 2019 (Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium)

• A Promise Is A Promise: The Effect of Commitment Devices on Computer Security Intentions
  A. Frik, N. Malkin, M. Harbach, E. Peer, S. Egelman
  CHI 2019 (Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

• Keepers of the Machines: Examining How System Administrators Manage Software Updates For Multiple Machines
  F. Li, L. Rogers, A. Mathur, N. Malkin, M. Chetty
  SOUPS 2019 (Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security)

• Better Late(r) than Never: Increasing Cyber-Security Compliance by Reducing Present Bias
  A. Frik, S. Egelman, M. Harbach, N. Malkin, E. Peer
  WEIS 2018 (Workshop on the Economics of Information Security)

• An Experience Sampling Study of User Reactions to Browser Warnings in the Field
  R. Reeder, A. Porter Felt, S. Consolvo, N. Malkin, C. Thompson, S. Egelman
  CHI 2018 (Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

• “What Can’t Data Be Used For?” Privacy Expectations about Smart TVs in the U.S.
  N. Malkin, J. Bernd, M. Johnson, S. Egelman
  EuroUSEC 2018 (Proceedings of the European Workshop on Usable Security)

• Quantifying Users’ Beliefs about Software Updates
  A. Mathur, N. Malkin, M. Harbach, E. Peer, S. Egelman
  USEC 2018 (Proceedings of the NDSS Workshop on Usable Security)

• Personalized Security Messaging: Nudges for Compliance with Browser Warnings
  N. Malkin, A. Mathur, M. Harbach, S. Egelman
  EuroUSEC 2017 (Proceedings of the European Workshop on Usable Security)

• A Usability Evaluation of Tor Launcher
  L. Lee, D. Fifield, N. Malkin, G. Iyer, S. Egelman, D. Wagner
  PETS 2017 (Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium)

• The Anatomy Of Smartphone Unlocking: Why and How Android Users Around the World Lock their Phones PDF
  N. Malkin, M. Harbach, A. De Luca, S. Egelman
  ACM GetMobile, 2016

• Keep on Lockin’ in the Free World: A Multi-National Comparison of Smartphone Locking
  M. Harbach, A. De Luca., N. Malkin, S. Egelman
  CHI 2016 (Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

• Recovering High-Value Secrets with SGX and Social Authentication
  N. Malkin, S. Egelman, D. Wagner
  WAY 2016 (Authentication Workshop at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security)