Noah Apthorpe

Noah Apthorpe
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Computer Science
Colgate University

Bernstein Hall
napthorpe @
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arXiv
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GitHub

Press Coverage

2026

Picker ISI Training Workshop Helps Apply AI-Powered Machine Learning Skills for Research
Stephanie DeVries
Colgate News. July 3, 2026
AI Workshop
Colgate University (YouTube). July 2, 2026
Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Ingenuity
Daniel Oberhaus
Colgate Magazine. May 20, 2026

2023

Professor Noah Apthorpe Discusses 'Student Privacy and Management Systems'
Cody Johnson
The Colgate Maroon-News. December 8, 2023
He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None
Tara Garcia Mathewson
The Markup. November 30, 2023

2022

Three Years of Crowdsourcing Smart Home Network Traffic
Danny Y. Huang
USENIX ;login: Magazine. July 25, 2022
Can Privacy Regulations Outsmart Smart Toys
Karis Stephen, Soojin Jeong, Margaret Sturtevant
The Regulatory Review. June 4, 2022
Improving IoT Inspector (Part 2)
Danny Y. Huang
Innovation at Consumer Reports. April 17, 2022
Improving IoT Inspector (Part 1)
Danny Y. Huang
Innovation at Consumer Reports. February 22, 2022
Smart Home Security
Jessica Leigh Brown
Colgate Research. January 24, 2022

2019

Your Smart TV Is Watching You
Katie Feather & Ira Flatow
Science Friday. October 4, 2019
In 21st-century tech dystopia, smart TV watches you, warns Princeton privacy prof
Tim Anderson
The Register. October 1, 2019
You Watch TV. Your TV Watches Back
Geoffrey Fowler
The Washington Post. September 18, 2019
Transparency About Data Collection is a Needed First Step of Privacy Regulation, Panelist Say at FTC Event
Emily McPhie
Broadband Breakfast. June 30, 2019
Princeton IoT Inspector lets you see what your smart home devices are up to
Ben Lovejoy
9to5Mac. April 19, 2019
A team's tool can inspect the secret life of your smart home items
Nancy Cohen
Tech Xplore. April 16, 2019
Spy on your smart home with this open source research tool
Natasha Lomas
TechCrunch. April 13, 2019
Princeton IoT Inspector: discovers IoT devices and analyzes network traffic
Hacker News. April 12, 2019
Use this tool to see where your smart home devices are sending data
AJ Dellinger
Digital Trends. April 11, 2019
This Simple Tool Will Reveal the Secret Life of Your Smart Home
Kashmir Hill
Gizmodo. April 10, 2019
The New Era of Disruptive Technologies
George Saliba
New Jersey Business. January, 2019

2018

Smart Homes can be Safe Homes
Will Uhl
Princeton Magazine. November, 2018
Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security is Possible?
James Mickens
USENIX Security Symposium Keynote Address. August 16, 2018
Google Home's data leak proves the IoT is still deeply flawed
Matt Burgess
WIRED. June 20, 2018
IoT Inspector Tool from Princeton
Bruce Schneier
Schneier on Security. May 1, 2018
Princeton research team hunting down IoT security blunders
Richard Chirgwin
The Register. April 26, 2018
IoT Inspector: Princeton releases a tool to snoop on home IoT devices and figure out what they're doing
Boing Boing. April 23, 2018
Princeton researchers use machine learning to create real-time IoT DDoS detection tool
Filip Truta
Bitdefender BOX. April 16, 2018
Workshop on Technical Applications of Contextual Integrity
Yan Shvartzshnaider
Princeton CITP Freedom To Tinker. January 24, 2018

2017

ICO advises parents to turn off cameras on kids’ toys
Sam Clark
The Stack. November 24, 2017
Your Internet Provider Has Already Hacked Your Smart Home
Harold Stark
Forbes. September 14, 2017
Researchers examine eavesdropping on smart-home traffic metadata
Nancy Owano
Tech Xplore. August 31, 2017
Metadata From IoT Traffic Exposes In-Home User Activity
Catalin Cimpanu
Bleeping Computer. August 29, 2017
Study: ISPs Can Use IOT Devices to Spy on You
Karl Bode
DSLReports. August 29, 2017
Researchers block ISPs from spying through your smart devices
Charlie Osborne
ZDNet. August 29, 2017
Study Reveals Spying Risk Factors Associated with Smart Homes
Anne Howard
The Scope Weekly. August 28, 2017
Internet providers could easily snoop on your smart home
Devin Coldewey
TechCrunch. August 28, 2017
Your broadband provider can use your smart devices to spy on you
Matt Reynolds
New Scientist. August 28, 2017
IoT devices reveal private information despite encryption, study warns
Sam Clark
The Stack. August 18, 2017
Internet of snitches: anyone who can sniff 'Thing' traffic knows what you're doing
Richard Chirgwin
The Register. May 29, 2017
You Don’t Care About Your Friends’ Data, And 4 Other Things We Learned From Privacy Experts
Kate Cox
Consumerist. January 17, 2017