Justin Samuel

B.S. Computer Science, University of Arizona, May 2009
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Biography

Justin Samuel is an undergraduate student in the University of Arizona's Computer Science department. His primary areas of interest are privacy and security.

Conference Papers

• RequestPolicy: Increasing Web Browsing Privacy through Control of Cross-Site Requests. Justin Samuel and Beichuan Zhang. (To appear) The 9th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2009).
• A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers. Justin Cappos, Justin Samuel, Scott Baker, and John Hartman. The 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008). [pdf]

Other Papers

• Package Managers Still Vulnerable: How to Protect Your Systems. Justin Samuel and Justin Cappos ;login:, Feb 2009. [pdf]
• Package Management Security. Justin Cappos, Justin Samuel, Scott Baker, John Hartman. University of Arizona Tech Report 08-02. [pdf]
• Centralized Package Management Using Stork. Justin Samuel, Jeremy Plichta, and Justin Cappos ;login:, Feb 2008. [pdf]

Teaching

Justin Samuel created and instructed CSc 397b: "Secure Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL". [Fall 07, Fall 08]

Clubs

In January 2009, Justin Samuel founded the UA Software Developers Club. The club meets weekly to allow students to share ideas/knowledge and collaborate on projects of their own outside of the classroom.

In February 2008, Justin Samuel founded the UA Computer Security Club. The club had its final meeting in December 2008. During its existence, the club met weekly to discuss and explore a wide range of security topics.

Projects

• RequestPolicy: A Firefox extension that gives the user control over cross-site requests. Justin Samuel is the author of RequestPolicy
• Browser-Based Distributed DES Cracker. This was a final project for MATH 445, Intro to Cryptography, Spring 08, Prof. David Savitt. Justin Samuel is the author of the Browser-Based Distributed DES Cracker.