Dominik Herrmann

I'll summarize our study on app vendors' responses to Subject Access Requests ("What data do you have on record about me?"), which was presented at #ares2020 – and received the Best Paper Award 🥳. @ARES_Conference #sar #apps #privacy #gdpr #dataprotection 1/18

Keynote: Eva Wolfangel, Grußwort: Caroline Krohn-Atug (BSI), Podiumsdiskussion. 16–19 Uhr, Eintritt frei. Anmeldung noch bis morgen: fordaysec.de/veranstaltung/…

4 Jahre lang haben wir im Bayer. Forschungsverbund ForDaySec.de untersucht, wie IT-Sicherheit im Alltag funktioniert. Informatik, Soziologie und Recht, 5 Unis, 8 Teilprojekte. Am Mittwoch (25.3.) stellen wir die Ergebnisse in München vor. 1/2

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Let me blow your mind real quick: When you use Remote Desktop (RDP), Windows secretly takes screenshots of what you are doing. It’s called the RDP Bitmap Cache. To make the connection faster, Windows saves small tiles (images) of the remote screen to your hard drive in a bin file. Even if the session is over and the remote server is destroyed... your laptop still holds the cache files. Forensics teams use tools like BMCViewer to stitch those tiles back together. They won't just see logs but the literal email, document, or picture you were looking at. 💀

In security, when you do your job perfectly, nothing happens. And people don't see when nothing happens.

Part 2 of my series on exams and AI is live: Automated grading, prompt injection (the LinkedIn flan experiment!), and why we spend more time discussing AI policies than actually teaching. Bike-shedding at its finest. uni-mal-anders.de/en/shorts/2025… #HigherEd #AI #AcademicTwitter

Made me chuckle, but totally right. 37 iterations later at 3 AM: Procrastination in the AI age. But quality improved.

Finally! An LLM grades 3000 free-text exam answers – while I drink coffee! Too good to be true? Exactly. After field testing at Uni Bamberg: We’re not grading faster with AI, we’re grading twice. 🧵

Unlimited exam attempts. Optional exercises. No mandatory checkpoints. Is 70% failure about personal responsibility – or a system designed to produce it? I refuse to lower standards until we ask: “Name a language starting and ending with C.” That’s theater, not education.

What can I do? Mandatory mid term tests? Legally not allowed. Mandatory exercises? Only voluntary – outsourced to AI. Labs? Not feasible with 250 students, 5 TAs. The German university system only allows subtle incentives. No binding structures.

70% fail the final exam. 60% fail the retake. Less than half pass. Our intro programming course numbers – not unique. The disturbing part? By Week 4, students know they can’t program. Four months later: still can’t. Nothing changed. Why? uni-mal-anders.de/en/shorts/2025…

You know that feeling when your advisor says 'but what's the gap?' & your mind goes blank Here's your rescue! Learn your Gap types & how to address them ⤵️ — Theoretical: when theories fail to explain reality — Methodological: when current methods fall short — Empirical: when we lack evidence to explain something — Conceptual: when key definitions are muddy — Temporal: when research hasn't kept up with changes — Spatial: when studies ignore geographic differences — Literature: when studies fail to build on existing knowledge Each has distinct ways to address them. What most miss? Connecting MULTIPLE gap types creates the strongest research justification. 💬 Reweet & 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝑮𝒂𝒑 𝑷𝑫𝑭 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘨𝘢𝘱 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 ------------------------------ Follow @RaziaAliani to get more useful AI in Research content (no clickbait stuff!) in your feed. & join 16K+ researchers & get FREE exclusive tips on using AI in research 🔗 in bio

Fighting with swords against drones. Workload skyrockets. Impact? Questionable. The disease is systemic. Symptom fighting won’t fix it. Next week: How we professors succumb to AI temptation ourselves.

Our response? Creative symptom fighting: “Ask about events after knowledge cutoff!” → ChatGPT googles “Submit chat histories!”→ Tab 1: official chat for prof → Tab 2: real work → Tab 3: ChatGPT asks ChatGPT how to fake reflection. Students perform a play. We applaud.

Better AI tools, worse exam results. At my uni, failure rates are rising for 2 semesters (65-78%). Students externalize thinking completely, not just calculation like with calculators, but analysis, problem-solving, everything. Thread + blog: uni-mal-anders.de/en/shorts/2025…

My workflow for AMAZING creative writing with LLMs: The trick is to give the LLM as much opinionated context as possible, so the writing is deeply influenced by your unique ideas. To do this, we guide the LLM into a Q&A mode before writing. Here’s how: 1. Pick a topic and format. 2. Prompt GPT-4.5 with something like: “I’m looking to write about [topic], in [format] format. I want you to start by asking me 5-10 questions to understand my perspective on this topic. I’ll answer with long-form text (I’ll use transcription so you get tons of context). Then, based on those answers, ask another round of questions to dig deeper and flesh out perspectives. Repeat this process until I tell you to start writing. At that point, take everything I have shared, and create an outline. Run it by me. Once I approve it, create my unique piece of writing.” 3. Use voice-to-text to answer the questions GPT-4.5 asks. Repeat as many times as you’d like until you feel the model has enough context to do well. Then, tell it to outline, check it out, and if you like it, tell it to write.

90% of academic papers I read are now AI-assisted. Most researchers are in complete denial. I'm a professor who's been brutally using AI for 18 months. Here's what I learned that could save your career: