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Emiliano De Cristofaro

@emilianodc.com
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Professor at UC Riverside, head of SPALab Home: emilianodc.com

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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 27/07/2026
Great to see @molly.wiki 's interactive map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures on John Oliver: map.citationneeded.news As usual, amazing work. Please consider supporting her work -- see www.mollywhite.net/support/
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Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 13/06/2026
Happy to release `autobidder v0.1.0 beta` -- a tool I've been toying with to help with bidding on papers to review at large conferences using hotcrp. github.com/emidec/autob...
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GitHub - emidec/autobidder: A project to automatically bid on papers when reviewing for large conferences
A project to automatically bid on papers when reviewing for large conferences - emidec/autobidder
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 26/05/2026
Today we're presenting two papers #cysoc2026 #icwsm2026 1. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩-𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 led by 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐚, a talented high school student workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract.php...
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Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops
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Trustworthy AI Talk Series @trust-ai-sem.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New exciting and timely Trustworthy AI Seminar tomorrow by Ilia Shumailov (AI Sequrity Company) ** What is going on with prompt injections? ** Tomorrow (Friday, May 1) at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST Details and Zoom/YouTube links at trust-ai-sem.github.io
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Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 21/04/2026
Gptzero thinks that the ACM copyright block is written by AI...
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a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32
Alt: chef's kiss
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 17/04/2026
Starting in ~15 mins!
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 14/04/2026
Check out our latest article: Improving Peer Review in Top-Tier Cybersecurity Conferences -- A proposal in 10 points linkedin.com/pulse/improv... via LinkedIn
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Improving Peer Review in Top-Tier Cybersecurity Conferences -- A proposal in 10 points
1. Introduction The peer review process at top-tier cybersecurity conferences faces well-documented challenges: inconsistent review quality, overburdened program committees, scope creep in submission ...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 14/04/2026
New exciting Trustworthy AI Seminar this Friday! Earlence Fernandes (UC San Diego) will present "The systems security approach to AI agents." Details and Zoom/YouTube stream link on our website : trust-ai-sem.github.io
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Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 04/04/2026
Can someone explain to me why car dealers agents still exist? If there is profession at all one should be happy to see replaced by AI, car dealers are light years ahead of anything else
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 02/04/2026
I'm excited to teach a Cybersafety class this quarter at UCR. In this first iteration, it'll be offered as a seminar class, but we will switch to a regular class next year. Preliminary syllabus: spalab.cs.ucr.edu/teaching/26s... Looking forward to comments and feedback!
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CS 260 – Computational Cybersafety
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Trustworthy AI Talk Series @trust-ai-sem.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🎙️ New Trustworthy AI Seminar ⏰ April 3 | 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST 🗣️Sahar Abdelnabi ( @sahar-abdelnabi.bsky.social): "Stateless Yet Not Forgetful: Implicit Memory as a Hidden Channel in LLMs" LLMs can carry hidden state across sessions — with zero external memory! 👉 trust-ai-sem.github.io
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Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 02/03/2026
📣 The first seminar of the Trustworthy AI Seminars will be given by Peter Kairouz on "Context Matters: A New Paradigm for Differentially Private Synthetic Text Generation." 🕰️ Friday, March 6, at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UK time 🌎 Details, Zoom link, YouTube stream, etc. at trust-ai-sem.github.io
trust-ai-sem.github.io
Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
Trustworthy AI Seminar Series
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 27/02/2026
Hey everyone, @ebagdasa.bsky.social and I are rebooting and widening the old prisec-ml seminar series. Give us a follow at @trust-ai-sem.bsky.social and check out our website at: trust-ai-sem.github.io We already have a couple of amazing speakers booked!
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Trustworthy AI Talk Series
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 06/02/2026
I’m excited to share that the UCR's LOGOS Interest Group is hosting an Open Day on February 27. If you’re a Southern California–based researcher and you’re interested in research problems in cybesafety/computation social science, get in touch! 👉 Event page: logos.cs.ucr.edu/open-day.html
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UCR – LOGOS Open Day
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 25/01/2026
Unapologetically wouldn't consider living anywhere in the US other than California.
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 15/12/2025
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 11/11/2025
PSA if you’re ever in the LA area, don’t miss Raffis place in Glendale. Worth the detour just for their khoobideh. Wow.
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 30/10/2025
UC, 2024: Your health insurance is going up significantly because we cover GLP-1, so go and hate people on it UC 2025: We are no longer covering GLP-1 unless your BMI is above 40 (if you're 5'10", you'd need to weigh >280 lbs) Also UC, 2025: Your health insurance is going up because GLP-1 Wut?
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SpaLab @ UCR/UCL @spalab.cs.ucr.edu · 23/10/2025
Congrats to Sundar -- his paper "To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling" was just accepted to #NDSS2026! Only 21 out of 950 straight accepts this round 😳 Joint work with Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, & @emilianodc.com Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10614
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To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling
The Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) algorithm allows the training of machine learning (ML) models with formal Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. Since DP-SGD processes t...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 30/09/2025
Hey folks! My Fall quarter class (OS capstone project) has been canceled, which means I'm on an impromptu short sabbatical until Xmas. I'm happy to travel a bit to visit and give talks if anyone is interested!
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 08/09/2025
I'm aware that I'm known as a hater, but can someone explain to me why on earth anyone would willingly use Overleaf to work on papers? The only use cases that I can think of are: 1) emergency editing from someone else's device or iPad 2) non-CS co-authors not familiar with LaTeX
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 12/08/2025
Ever struggled with managing your pubs to create an NSF BioSketch using MyNCBI's My Bibliography? I think I have finally found a decent way to handle stuff, sharing in case it helps... (Step 5 is the one that took me the longest!) www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 31/07/2025
📣 Upcoming CCS'25 paper 📣 The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation
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SpaLab @ UCR/UCL @spalab.cs.ucr.edu · 04/07/2025
Conditional congrats to Georgi and Sundar - their paper on Discretization in DP Synthetic Data was accepted with shepherding to CCS’25. Very important work on an overlooked aspect of end-to-end DP pipelines. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.06923 -- feedback welcome!
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The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data
Differentially Private (DP) generative marginal models are often used in the wild to release synthetic tabular datasets in lieu of sensitive data while providing formal privacy guarantees. These model...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 30/06/2025
Really interesting work on CCPA-mandated compliance of data brokers with access/deletion requests: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21914 Highlights: - Almost half of the brokers don't respond - Only <5% of brokers provided personal data - No standard/easy way to submit requests - Requests for even more PII
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Consumer Beware! Exploring Data Brokers' CCPA Compliance
Data brokers collect and sell the personal information of millions of individuals, often without their knowledge or consent. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants consumers the legal right...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 19/06/2025
TIL my Internet provider (Cox Communications) creates an access point ("CoxWiFi") from your WiFi router where other Cox customers can connect to at no charge. This was enabled by default and without my explicit consent. How is that legal?
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Online abuse self-defense training for scientists "who appear in media and other public outlets, as well as their allies and employers" www.sciline.org/learn/online...
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Online abuse self-defense training - SciLine
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 02/06/2025
Once in a while, I stumble upon an old email of mine — the writing and grammar are awful. I used to feel embarrassed, riddled with imposter syndrome, etc. But for the last couple of years, I’ve focused instead on how much I’ve improved. Cognitive restructuring is such an underrated power…
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Unlike traditional finances, all someone needs to access all your crypto is your passwords and they can steal your money and disappear without a trace. This incentivizes some horrific behavior all over the world.
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Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 19/05/2025
Hi Everyone, I'm teaching a new UG class on privacy at UCR and I'm planning a lecture on human factors of privacy. Has anyone taught anything on this topic and would like to share notes/topics covered? I'd be super grateful!
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 14/05/2025
Huge congrats to @spalab.cs.ucr.edu's Georgi Ganev for receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P for his work "The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets." Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 16/04/2025
Georgi's paper, Understanding the Impact of Data Domain Extraction on Synthetic Data Privacy, will be presented at the ICLR SynthData workshop next week. A "tiny" paper studying the impact of how you extract the data domain from tabular datasets while training generative models for synthetic data.
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 15/04/2025
I'm quoted in this @wired.com article about the recent (alleged) 4chan hack www.wired.com/story/2025-4...
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Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins
Though the exact details of the situation have not been confirmed, community infighting seems to have spilled out in a breach of the notorious image board.
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Ugur Kursuncu @ugurkursuncu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
📢 Deadline Extended for submissions to #CySoc2025 to ensure broader participation. 💡Share your research on generative AI, online safety, harms and threats, or political conflict in online platforms, with the leading minds in the field. We’d love to see your submissions. 📆New Deadline: April 10 AoE
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 11/03/2025
And it was also amazing to be physically with Georgi (at Schloss Dagstuhl of all places) for the first time in 1.5 years when we got the news! :)
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SpaLab @ UCR/UCL @spalab.cs.ucr.edu · 11/03/2025
Happy to announce that Georgi's paper, “The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets,” has been accepted to IEEE Security & Privacy. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05114
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 10/03/2025
Not an urban legend — the sausage vending machine near the Schloss Dagstuhl exists! And they seem very successful too as it’s almost empty! Just outside a small backerei in the middle of nowhere. When in a Germany…
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 25/02/2025
On my way to NDSS on the most amazing train. See y’all in a bit.
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 21/02/2025
Waiting for S&P reviewers to respond to our rebuttal
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 16/02/2025
I couldn't sleep last night.
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 15/02/2025
The adjective sounds very superfluous
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 12/02/2025
I’m proverbially humbled and manifestly honored by the ACM’s recognition as Distinguished Member. This is obviously an achievement that would have never been possible without my amazing students and collaborators or the support and mentorship of so many people. www.acm.org/media-center...
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ACM has named 56 Distinguished Members for work that has advanced computing, fostered innovation across various fields and improved computer science education.
The 2024 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations, and research institutions in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, India, Switzerland,...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 11/02/2025
The final version of Georgi's TMLR paper, "The Elusive Pursuit of Reproducing PATE-GAN: Benchmarking, Auditing, Debugging," is now available at: arxiv.org/abs/2406.13985
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The Elusive Pursuit of Reproducing PATE-GAN: Benchmarking, Auditing, Debugging
Synthetic data created by differentially private (DP) generative models is increasingly used in real-world settings. In this context, PATE-GAN has emerged as one of the most popular algorithms, combin...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 09/02/2025
Reposting this here, would love to hear your thoughts!
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 04/02/2025
Sundar's upcoming WWW paper on browser fingerprinting is now available on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2502.01608
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Beyond the Crawl: Unmasking Browser Fingerprinting in Real User Interactions
Browser fingerprinting is a pervasive online tracking technique used increasingly often for profiling and targeted advertising. Prior research on the prevalence of fingerprinting heavily relied on aut...
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 03/02/2025
It was fun to give an interview to Italian TV's TG3 Mondo, talking about our research on the toxic manosphere/womanosphere ecosystems. The segment (in Italian) starts around minute 25 at this link: www.rainews.it/rubriche/tg3...
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Puntata del 03/02/2025 ore 00:00 | Tg3 Mondo, Rubrica del Tg3
Tg3 Mondo. Telegiornale di approfondimento internazionale - Puntata del 03/02/2025 - 00:00
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 21/01/2025
Congrats to Sundar and Igor — our new paper on browser fingerprinting has been accepted to WWW’25. G’day, mate!
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com · 14/01/2025
Happy to report that the paper "The Elusive Pursuit of Reproducing PATE-GAN: Benchmarking, Auditing, Debugging" led by SPALab's Georgi Ganev has been accepted, pending minor revision, to the prestigious TMLR journal. Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2406.13985
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The Elusive Pursuit of Replicating PATE-GAN: Benchmarking, Auditing, Debugging
Synthetic data created by differentially private (DP) generative models is increasingly used in real-world settings. In this context, PATE-GAN has emerged as a popular algorithm, combining Generative ...
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 08/01/2025
Want to connect with the brightest minds shaping the future of network and computer security? The NDSS Symposium (Feb 24-28) in sunny San Diego is THE place to be! We're talking 5 tracks, 220+ cutting-edge OPEN ACCESS papers, and world-class workshops. www.ndss-symposium.org 1/
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