11 Facts About Susan Landau

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Susan Landau is an American mathematician, engineer, cybersecurity policy expert, and Bridge Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Susan Landau's previously worked as a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google.

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Susan Landau's was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department, Harvard University in 2012.

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4.

Susan Landau is an alumna of Bronx Science and the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.

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Susan Landau's went on to received a master's degree from Cornell University in 1979 before pursuing graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received a Ph.

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6.

Susan Landau's was awarded the 2008 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Social Impact.

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Susan Landau's has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1999, and in 2011 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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In October 2015, Susan Landau was inducted into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame.

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9.

Susan Landau gave testimony in the FBI–Apple encryption dispute between 2015 and 2016.

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Susan Landau's is the co-author of “Keys Under Doormats: Mandating Insecurity by Requiring Government Access to All Data and Communications, ” which received the 2015 J D Falk Award from the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group.

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Susan Landau testified that making iPhones less secure would simply send terrorists and bad actors running toward options that the FBI and Congress had no control over.

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