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SpeedReader: Reader Mode Made Fast and Private
Mohammad Ghasemisharif, Peter Snyder, Andrius Aucinas +1
Most popular web browsers include "reader modes" that improve the user experience by removing un-useful page elements. Reader modes reformat the page to hide elements that are not…
The Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Scheme
Jiahua Xu, Benjamin Livshits
While pump-and-dump schemes have attracted the attention of cryptocurrency observers and regulators alike, this paper represents the first detailed empirical query of pump-and-dump…
Evaluating the End-User Experience of Private Browsing Mode
Ruba Abu-Salma, Benjamin Livshits
Nowadays, all major web browsers have a private browsing mode. However, the mode's benefits and limitations are not particularly understood. Through the use of survey studies, prio…
Who Filters the Filters: Understanding the Growth, Usefulness and Efficiency of Crowdsourced Ad Blocking
Peter Snyder, Antoine Vastel, Benjamin Livshits
Ad and tracking blocking extensions are popular tools for improving web performance, privacy and aesthetics. Content blocking extensions typically rely on filter lists to decide wh…
A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation
Aggelos Kiayias, Benjamin Livshits, Andrés Monteoliva Mosteiro +1
Decentralized content curation is the process through which uploaded posts are ranked and filtered based exclusively on users' feedback. Platforms such as the blockchain-based Stee…
EthIR: A Framework for High-Level Analysis of Ethereum Bytecode
Elvira Albert, Pablo Gordillo, Benjamin Livshits +2
Analyzing Ethereum bytecode, rather than the source code from which it was generated, is a necessity when: (1) the source code is not available (e.g., the blockchain only stores th…
AdGraph: A Graph-Based Approach to Ad and Tracker Blocking
Umar Iqbal, Peter Snyder, Shitong Zhu +3
User demand for blocking advertising and tracking online is large and growing. Existing tools, both deployed and described in research, have proven useful, but lack either the comp…
When the signal is in the noise: Exploiting Diffix's Sticky Noise
Andrea Gadotti, Florimond Houssiau, Luc Rocher +2
Anonymized data is highly valuable to both businesses and researchers. A large body of research has however shown the strong limits of the de-identification release-and-forget mode…
Security: Doing Whatever is Needed... and Not a Thing More!
Omer Katz, Benjamin Livshits
As malware, exploits, and cyber-attacks advance over time, so do the mitigation techniques available to the user. However, while attackers often abandon one form of exploitation in…