Tom Van Goethem is a PhD researcher at the University of Leuven with a keeninterest in web security and online privacy. In his research, Tom performslarge-scale security experiments, both to analyse the presence of good and badsecurity practices on the web, as well as to demystify security claims. Morerecently, Tom started exploring side-channel attacks in the context of theweb, resulting in the discovery of browser-based timing attacks. In an attemptto make the web a safer place, Tom on occasion rummages the web in search forvulnerabilities.