Bio
Luke is a Privacy & Security Engineer for Mozilla Firefox. He applies his 20 years of holistic, “full-stack” software engineering experience to protect against the privacy & security threats facing billions of global internet users every day. His work focuses on data breaches, passwords, and online tracking, and he has also contributed to networking & cryptographic privacy & security. He is a board member of Techlahoma Foundation, an advisor for University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University technology programs, and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tor Foundation, and the OWASP Foundation.
My Talks
Can we improve privacy without breaking the web?
The Firefox Privacy team ran a first-of-its-kind user research study to learn how privacy protections affect users on websites. 19,000 users participated in 8 variations. We learned some surprising...
Crypto: 500 BC to World War II
A 60-minute overview of content from The Code Book by Simon Singh, covering secrecy from ancient Greece to Enigma machines used in World War II. This is a cursory, high-level, mostly-non-mathematic...
Digital Security & Privacy Self-Defense
Modern technology has created abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on everyone. This talk covers material from EFF, Consumer Reports, and WIRED to defend yourself from hackers & trackers by usin...
How to run your code on the dark web (and why you should)
Tor is an anonymous network and browser. Millions use Tor every day. Is your code ready for them? This talk introduces Tor, provides an overview of how it works and the adversaries and attacks its ...
Scary JavaScript (and other Tech) that Tracks You Online
There are over 5,000 online trackers using cookies, fingerprinting, and probabilistic device matching to follow you across the web. We'll talk about how sites are able to follow users, tracking met...
"Top" 5 Security Errors We See From Firefox and How to Fix Them
The most common security errors & warnings that developers see in the Firefox console are not that hard to fix. This talk covers what they are, why they are dangerous, and how to fix them.