Joseph Lorenzo Hall | Latest Updates

Writing: A UPS was the easy part.

Writing: A late scheduled post led me to compare GitHub Actions and Cloudflare Cron.

Writing: On September 24, I’ll join a conversation about the Samuelson Clinic’s work, its influence, and the continuing need for serious public-interest technology law and policy.

Writing: Forty years after a 75-cent accounting error sent him chasing a hacker across the early Internet, Cliff Stoll returned to the story at DEF CON—with an overhead projector, his original transparencies from a 1987 NSA presentation, and a thermos of…

Writing: AI can now help design whole viral genomes.

Writing: Science communicators love to compare complex systems to 'the number of atoms in the universe.'

Writing: Theory without observation is just beautiful math; observation without theory is just raw data.

Writing: To bridge the gap between Einstein's curved spacetime and the discrete jumps of quantum spin, you have to look under the hood of how continuous symmetry works.

Writing: For nearly a century, physicists have struggled to unify Einstein's smooth fabric of spacetime with the discrete jumps of quantum mechanics.

Writing: After wrestling with Node.js memory limits and aggressive CSS resets, this site now supports lightning-fast, build-time mathematical typesetting with no client-side math renderer.

Writing: We finally killed the long-lived developer API key, a massive victory for open-source security.

Writing: I take a look at the history of measuring time—from sand glasses to atomic clocks—and explain the clever physics behind using a smartphone speaker to force a digital wall clock to sync with the Internet's exact time.

Writing: At NDSS 2026, Dan Wallach outlined DARPA's ambitious plan to eradicate memory safety bugs using AI.

Writing: Climate change warms the Earth's surface, but it actually cools the upper atmosphere.

Writing: I've officially joined a long-term wager on the future of Internet security: will quantum computers break current encryption before mathematicians break new quantum defenses?

Writing: Repurposing the Internet's naming system for public policy is blunt, costly, and counterproductive.

Writing: I finally sat down and built a unified, cross-platform dotfiles architecture to bridge my macOS machines and my Chromebooks.

Writing: We have reached the final day of my NDSS 2026 Showcase.

Writing: For Day 3, we pivot from the edges of the network to its core.

Writing: Yesterday, I kicked off my showcase of the 2026 NDSS Symposium with Mad Science hacks.

Writing: The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), hosted by the Internet Society for over 30 years, is one of the premier venues for security research.

Writing: At the National Collegiate Security Conference LIII, I shared a simple core message with over 800 future global leaders: Internet governance is people, and the multistakeholder model is a technical necessity.

Writing: A mind-blowing breakthrough in cryptography allows Large Language Models to work with encrypted data from start to finish, preventing privacy leaks.

Writing: A battle over copyright law at the U.S.

I was honored to receive the 2025 IP3 Internet Protocol Award from Public Knowledge, alongside fellow honorees Dr.

Writing: NIST has released BRIO, a powerful open-source tool for testing and experimenting with BGP security mechanisms like ROV, BGPsec, and RPKI-to-Router.

Career Milestone: Reviewer and Committee Member, Enigma Track USENIX Security Symposium

Writing: I recently spoke with members of ISOC Nicaragua and UAM law students about how law, code, and the courts shape our digital future—and the critical need for professionals fluent in both law and technology.

Writing: A landmark decision from Brazil's Supreme Court (STF) fundamentally reshapes the landscape for platform liability in the country, declaring part of the Marco Civil's core safe harbor unconstitutional.

Writing: I recently received a cease and desist letter regarding an article on African Multistakeholderism.

Writing: The 2024 Salt Typhoon cyber espionage campaign marks a watershed moment in state-sponsored cyber operations, delivering a clear answer to a long-standing debate in the security community: there is no safe form of "lawful access" or "good guys onl…

Writing: The US Solicitor General has filed an important amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to consider Cox v.

Writing: The Trump Administration has significantly amended the Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order (EO 14144), eliminating digital identity pilots and refocusing software supply chain directives.

Writing: In Gabagaba, Papua New Guinea, new Internet access is transforming lives.

Writing: India's proposed Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) rules could unintentionally harm users.

Writing: Another senseless threat to strong encryption, this time in Sweden.

Writing: Internet Society CEO Sally Wentworth and ISOC Brasil President Flávio Rech Wagner warn against weakening Article 19 of Brazil's Marco Civil da Internet in a new op-ed.

Writing: A broad coalition is urging Congress to amend the TAKE IT DOWN Act.

Writing: The Internet has been around for 50+ years and has become ingrained in many people’s daily lives.

I joined the Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast with Matt Green to discuss Apple's withdrawal of Advanced Data Protection in the UK and what it could mean for end-to-end encryption worldwide.

Career Milestone: Steering Group Co-Chair NDSS Symposium

Writing: Internet Society CEO and President, Andrew Sullivan, testified in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law in support of Section 230.

Career Milestone: Program Chair USENIX Enigma

Writing: Imagine waking up in the morning, grabbing your hot cup of coffee, and scrolling your favorite blog post or website, only to find it looking like this: Images are missing.

Career Milestone: Distinguished Technologist, Security Portfolio Lead Internet Society Strategic individual contributor at the senior executive level whose work lies at the intersection of computer science, law, and policy.

Writing: The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium kicked off earlier this week.

Writing: Every year, the Internet Society hosts one of the top conferences for computer and network security research, the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium.

Writing: A month ago, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a “Notice of Inquiry” (NOI) around a subject close to our hearts: secure Internet routing.

Career Milestone: Member, Advisory Council; Co-Chair (2022-2023) The Center for Democracy and Technology

Career Milestone: Program Committee USENIX Security 2019