Towards Mining Latent Client Identifiers from Network Traffic
Title | Towards Mining Latent Client Identifiers from Network Traffic |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Jain, S., Javed M., & Paxson V. |
Published in | Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium |
Date Published | 07/2016 |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Abstract | Websites extensively track users via identifiers that uniquely map to client machines or user accounts. Although such tracking has desirable properties like enabling personalization and website analytics, it also raises serious concerns about online user privacy, and can potentially enable illicit surveillance by adversaries who broadly monitor network traffic. |
URL | http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/trackers-pets16.pdf |
ICSI Research Group | Networking and Security |