#CISPA@USENIX 2025 – Phone Theft and Human Behavior with Divyanshu Bhardwaj

USENIX Security 2025 in Seattle is just around the corner! As one of the leading conferences in security and privacy, it's the perfect time to take a closer look at the research being presented. In this special conference episode of CISPA TL;DR, we talk to CISPA researcher Divyanshu Bhardwaj about his work on one of modern life’s worst nightmares: phone theft. As Divyanshu points out, our phones hold almost everything—photos, boarding passes, banking apps, and more. So what actually happens when your phone gets stolen? And how can we better protect users in that worst-case scenario? Tune in to hear what Divyanshu learned from real-world phone theft victims and what steps he thinks we can take to keep our data safe, even when our phones fall into the wrong hands. Check out all of Divyanshu's research papers here: https://publications.cispa.de/authors/Divyanshu_Bhardwaj/17288206