Alan Mislove

Strength in Numbers

2015

Popular social and e-commerce sites increasingly rely on crowd computing to rate and rank content, users, products and businesses. Today, attackers who create fake (Sybil) identities can easily tamper with these computations. Existing defenses that …

CRLite: A Scalable System for Pushing All TLS Revocations to All Browsers

2017

Currently, no major browser fully checks for TLS/SSL certificate revocations. This is largely due to the fact that the deployed mechanisms for disseminating revocations (CRLs, OCSP, OCSP Stapling, CRLSet, and OneCRL) are each either incomplete, …

Using millions of emoji occurrences to learn any-domain representations for detecting sentiment, emotion and sarcasm

2017

NLP tasks are often limited by scarcity of manually annotated data. In social media sentiment analysis and related tasks, researchers have therefore used binarized emoticons and specific hashtags as forms of distant supervision. Our paper …