Inspired by a scandalous fraud case in scientific publishing, i wrote a paper applying Goodhart's Law to scientific publishing ("A Much-needed Security Perspective on Publication Metrics", published at the Security Protocols Workshop 2017). That was a really fun paper to write! Basically, how can you systematically start cheating at publishing - and how could you catch that?

The most fun was challenging the audience - security researchers all - to think even more outside the box than usual for them.

I'm still (slowly) forging ahead on ideas spawned by this paper. Bringing the ideas of catching crooks to reality was not as straightforward as hoped. Then again, when has any project ever gone as planned?