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20152020
most citedTracking the Trackers: Towards Understanding the Mobile Advertising and Tracking Ecosystem

54 citations · 95 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.NI2020★ 2 cited

Back in control -- An extensible middle-box on your phone

James Newman, Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez +4

The closed design of mobile devices -- with the increased security and consistent user interfaces -- is in large part responsible for their becoming the dominant platform for acces…

cs.CR2019

The Era of TLS 1.3: Measuring Deployment and Use with Active and Passive Methods

Ralph Holz, Johanna Amann, Abbas Razaghpanah +1

TLS 1.3 marks a significant departure from previous versions of the Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS). The new version offers a simplified protocol flow, more secure cryptogr…

cs.CR2019

ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform

Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg +4

Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time an…

cs.CR2019★ 3 cited

An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software

Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah +2

The open-source nature of the Android OS makes it possible for manufacturers to ship custom versions of the OS along with a set of pre-installed apps, often for product differentia…

cs.CR2017★ 3 cited

A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level Path Churn and Network Tomography

Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah +1

Recent years have seen the Internet become a key vehicle for citizens around the globe to express political opinions and organize protests. This fact has not gone unnoticed, with c…

cs.CY2016★ 54 cited

Tracking the Trackers: Towards Understanding the Mobile Advertising and Tracking Ecosystem

Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Abbas Razaghpanah +4

Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they allow app developers to add features such as performance analytics and social network integration, and to m…

cs.NI2016★ 10 cited

Exploring the Design Space of Longitudinal Censorship Measurement Platforms

Abbas Razaghpanah, Anke Li, Arturo Filastò +4

Despite the high perceived value and increasing severity of online information controls, a data-driven understanding of the phenomenon has remained elusive. In this paper, we consi…

cs.NI2015★ 23 cited

Haystack: A Multi-Purpose Mobile Vantage Point in User Space

Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan +4

Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range of daily tasks, their operation remains largely opaque. A number of previous studies have addressed elements of this…