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Xiaofeng Wang

49 points by rolph 2y ago

holysoles 2y ago
For more context: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-...
- deleted 2y ago
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ranger_danger 2y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001
- dang 2y ago
  Not technically a dupe, but you're right in the sense that this is a follow-up, and we generally don't want split discussions on the front page. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - rolph 2y ago
    dang pls merge if you need to, thX
paulpauper 2y ago
10,358 Citations that is impressive. no wiki page about him though
- MaysonL 2y ago
  When you’re an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow, you’re impressive.
  - sitkack 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaofeng_Wang_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaofeng_Wang_(computer_scient...
brcmthrowaway 2y ago
Clearly Satoshi was doxxed and is now on the run.
- soupfordummies 2y ago
  I assume you’re being cheeky but… what if! wasn’t there also a theory recently that Satoshi must be dead?
  - amy_petrik 2y ago
    Hal Finney died when Satoshi disappeared, it's an old theory though, not recent. The thinking is either Satoshi died, lost the billion dollar keys intentionally or unintentionally, or beats to a different drum and is in it for the love of the game, not the money
    - mapt 2y ago
      How do you exfiltrate any portion of 80 billion dollars from Bitcoin without immediately making yourself a target for every criminal organization in the world?
nickysielicki 2y ago
https://wangxiaofeng7.github.io/ https://wangxiaofeng7.github.io/ is far more interesting, but not as topical. > Dr. Wang serves as Director and Lead PI of Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC), […] funded by the NSF. The project is a multi-institution effort [which] aims at laying the technological foundations for practical data-in-use protection based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) […] My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see.
- JadeNB 2y ago
  > My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see. Googling gave me an idea of what FP8 might mean (8-bit floating point format?), but didn't immediately help with BL32 (unless it is a reference to an air blower, which seems unlikely). Could you explain?
  - deleted 2y ago
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  - Harvesterify 2y ago
    This is related to Trusted Computing on ARM platforms, i.e. what is cited related to Distributed Confidential Computing. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm-trusted-firmware/+/v1.2-rc0/docs/firmware-design.md#bl32-secure_el1-payload_image-load https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm...
dang 2y ago
Related ongoing thread: FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 - March 2025 (222 comments)
sitkack 2y ago
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-motion-to-unseal-fbi-search-warrant-on-former-iu-professor https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-mo... > A colleague of professor XiaoFeng Wang, the world-renowned cybersecurity expert who IU fired last Friday after federal law enforcement searched his homes, is filing a legal motion to unseal the warrants. > “We have the right to know what our government is up to, in short,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a legal scholar and policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence. > Wang and his wife Nianli Ma have not been heard from publicly since the searches last Friday at homes in Bloomington and Carmel. But Wang’s lawyer says the couple is safe and hasn’t been charged with a crime. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-statement.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-stateme...

49 points by rolph 2y ago

For more context: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-...

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ranger_danger 2y ago

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001

dang 2y ago
Not technically a dupe, but you're right in the sense that this is a follow-up, and we generally don't want split discussions on the front page. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- rolph 2y ago
  dang pls merge if you need to, thX

paulpauper 2y ago

10,358 Citations that is impressive. no wiki page about him though

MaysonL 2y ago
When you’re an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow, you’re impressive.
- sitkack 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaofeng_Wang_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaofeng_Wang_(computer_scient...

brcmthrowaway 2y ago

Clearly Satoshi was doxxed and is now on the run.

soupfordummies 2y ago
I assume you’re being cheeky but… what if! wasn’t there also a theory recently that Satoshi must be dead?
- amy_petrik 2y ago
  Hal Finney died when Satoshi disappeared, it's an old theory though, not recent. The thinking is either Satoshi died, lost the billion dollar keys intentionally or unintentionally, or beats to a different drum and is in it for the love of the game, not the money
  - mapt 2y ago
    How do you exfiltrate any portion of 80 billion dollars from Bitcoin without immediately making yourself a target for every criminal organization in the world?

nickysielicki 2y ago

https://wangxiaofeng7.github.io/ https://wangxiaofeng7.github.io/ is far more interesting, but not as topical. > Dr. Wang serves as Director and Lead PI of Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC), […] funded by the NSF. The project is a multi-institution effort [which] aims at laying the technological foundations for practical data-in-use protection based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) […] My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see.

JadeNB 2y ago
> My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see. Googling gave me an idea of what FP8 might mean (8-bit floating point format?), but didn't immediately help with BL32 (unless it is a reference to an air blower, which seems unlikely). Could you explain?
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
- Harvesterify 2y ago
  This is related to Trusted Computing on ARM platforms, i.e. what is cited related to Distributed Confidential Computing. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm-trusted-firmware/+/v1.2-rc0/docs/firmware-design.md#bl32-secure_el1-payload_image-load https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm...

dang 2y ago

Related ongoing thread: FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 - March 2025 (222 comments)

sitkack 2y ago

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-motion-to-unseal-fbi-search-warrant-on-former-iu-professor https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-mo... > A colleague of professor XiaoFeng Wang, the world-renowned cybersecurity expert who IU fired last Friday after federal law enforcement searched his homes, is filing a legal motion to unseal the warrants. > “We have the right to know what our government is up to, in short,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a legal scholar and policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence. > Wang and his wife Nianli Ma have not been heard from publicly since the searches last Friday at homes in Bloomington and Carmel. But Wang’s lawyer says the couple is safe and hasn’t been charged with a crime. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-statement.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-stateme...