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ZKSENSE: A Friction-less Privacy-Preserving Human Attestation Mechanism for Mobile Devices
Iñigo Querejeta-Azurmendi, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Matteo Varvello +3
Recent studies show that 20.4% of the internet traffic originates from automated agents. To identify and block such ill-intentioned traffic, mechanisms that verify the humanness of…
BatteryLab, A Distributed Power Monitoring Platform For Mobile Devices
Matteo Varvello, Kleomenis Katevas, Mihai Plesa +2
Recent advances in cloud computing have simplified the way that both software development and testing are performed. Unfortunately, this is not true for battery testing for which s…
Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions
Alexander Sjosten, Peter Snyder, Antonio Pastor +2
Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting web users. The vast majority of popular filter lists are crowd-sourced, where a large number of people manual…
VPN0: A Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Virtual Private Network
Matteo Varvello, Iñigo Querejeta Azurmendi, Antonio Nappa +3
Distributed Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs) are new VPN solutions aiming to solve the trust-privacy concern of a VPN's central authority by leveraging a distributed architecture.…
Broken Metre: Attacking Resource Metering in EVM
Daniel Perez, Benjamin Livshits
Blockchain systems, such as Ethereum, use an approach called "metering" to assign a cost to smart contract execution, an approach which is designed to incentivise miners to operate…
Privacy-Preserving Bandits
Mohammad Malekzadeh, Dimitrios Athanasakis, Hamed Haddadi +1
Contextual bandit algorithms~(CBAs) often rely on personal data to provide recommendations. Centralized CBA agents utilize potentially sensitive data from recent interactions to pr…
The Blind Men and the Internet: Multi-Vantage Point Web Measurements
Jordan Jueckstock, Shaown Sarker, Peter Snyder +4
In this paper, we design and deploy a synchronized multi-vantage point web measurement study to explore the comparability of web measurements across vantage points (VPs). We descri…
Percival: Making In-Browser Perceptual Ad Blocking Practical With Deep Learning
Zain ul abi Din, Panagiotis Tigas, Samuel T. King +1
In this paper we present Percival, a browser-embedded, lightweight, deep learning-powered ad blocker. Percival embeds itself within the browser's image rendering pipeline, which ma…
Keeping out the Masses: Understanding the Popularity and Implications of Internet Paywalls
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Peter Snyder, Dimitrios Athanasakis +1
Funding the production of quality online content is a pressing problem for content producers. The most common funding method, online advertising, is rife with well-known performanc…
Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Vulnerable Does Not Imply Exploited
Daniel Perez, Benjamin Livshits
In recent years, we have seen a great deal of both academic and practical interest in the topic of vulnerabilities in smart contracts, particularly those developed for the Ethereum…
Static Analysis for Asynchronous JavaScript Programs
Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Benjamin Livshits
Asynchrony has become an inherent element of JavaScript, as an effort to improve the scalability and performance of modern web applications. To this end, JavaScript provides progra…