[2] On February 11, 2006, at the fifth CodeCon, Sassaman proposed to returning speaker and noted computer scientist Meredith L. Patterson during the Q&A after her presentation, and they were married.

[3] The couple worked together on several research collaborations, including a critique of privacy flaws in the OLPC Bitfrost security platform,[4] and a proposal of formal methods of analysis of computer insecurity in February 2011.

Sassaman and Patterson announced Osogato's first product, a downloadable music recommendation tool, at SuperHappyDevHouse 21 in San Francisco.

[citation needed] In 2009, Dan Kaminsky presented joint work with Sassaman and Patterson at Black Hat in Las Vegas, showing multiple methods for attacking the X.509 certificate authority infrastructure.

Kaminsky revealed it publicly during Black Hat USA 2011 at the Caesars Palace Venue in Las Vegas.