4 papers
Country-in-the-Middle: Measuring Paths between People and their Governments
Alisha Ukani, Katherine Izhikevich, Shambhavi Mittal +5
Understanding where Internet services are hosted, and how users reach them, has captured the interest of government regulators and others concerned with the privacy of data flows.…
Privacy Practices of Browser Agents
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi +1
This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing…
Local Frames: Exploiting Inherited Origins to Bypass Content Blockers
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Alex C. Snoeren +1
We present a study of how local frames (i.e., iframes loading content like "about:blank") are mishandled by a wide range of popular Web security and privacy tools. As a result, use…
Words as Geometric Features: Estimating Homography using Optical Character Recognition as Compressed Image Representation
Ross Greer, Alisha Ukani, Katherine Izhikevich +3
Document alignment and registration play a crucial role in numerous real-world applications, such as automated form processing, anomaly detection, and workflow automation. Traditio…