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Peter Zimmerman
dblp:130/3956
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2015
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Privacy and data protection · 56% Network security · 44% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network security
traffic analysis |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Cookies That Give You Away: The Surveillance Implications of Web Tracking · WWW 2015 |
Privacy and data protection
web tracking |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Cookies That Give You Away: The Surveillance Implications of Web Tracking · WWW 2015 |
Privacy and data protection
surveillance |
0.1 | 1 | 2015 | Cookies That Give You Away: The Surveillance Implications of Web Tracking · WWW 2015 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
web measurement · 0.2network measurement · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Cookies That Give You Away: The Surveillance Implications of Web TrackingabstractWe study the ability of a passive eavesdropper to leverage "third-party" HTTP tracking cookies for mass surveillance. If two web pages embed the same tracker which tags the browser with a unique cookie, then the adversary can link visits to those pages from the same user (i.e., browser instance) even if the user's IP address varies. Further, many popular websites leak a logged-in user's identity to an eavesdropper in unencrypted traffic. To evaluate the effectiveness of our attack, we introduce a methodology that combines web measurement and network measurement. Using OpenWPM, our web privacy measurement platform, we simulate users browsing the web and find that the adversary can reconstruct 62-73% of a typical user's browsing history. We then analyze the effect of the physical location of the wiretap as well as legal restrictions such as the NSA's "one-end foreign" rule. Using measurement units in various locations - Asia, Europe, and the United States - we show that foreign users are highly vulnerable to the NSA's dragnet surveillance due to the concentration of third-party trackers in the U.S. Finally, we find that some browser-based privacy tools mitigate the attack while others are largely ineffective. Steven Englehardt, Dillon Reisman, Christian Eubank, Peter Zimmerman, Jonathan R. Mayer, Arvind Narayanan, Edward W. Felten |
WWW | 4 |