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Virtual Classrooms and Real Harms: Remote Learning at U.S. Universities
Shaanan Cohney, Ross Teixeira, Anne Kohlbrenner +4
Universities have been forced to rely on remote educational technology to facilitate the rapid shift to online learning. In doing so, they acquire new risks of security vulnerabili…
Keeping the Smart Home Private with Smart(er) IoT Traffic Shaping
Noah Apthorpe, Danny Yuxing Huang, Dillon Reisman +2
The proliferation of smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices presents unprecedented challenges for preserving privacy within the home. In this paper, we demonstrate that a pass…
BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform
Harry Kalodner, Steven Goldfeder, Alishah Chator +2
Analysis of blockchain data is useful for both scientific research and commercial applications. We present BlockSci, an open-source software platform for blockchain analysis. Block…
Spying on the Smart Home: Privacy Attacks and Defenses on Encrypted IoT Traffic
Noah Apthorpe, Dillon Reisman, Srikanth Sundaresan +2
The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting new challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Many smart home device…
When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies
Steven Goldfeder, Harry Kalodner, Dillon Reisman +1
We show how third-party web trackers can deanonymize users of cryptocurrencies. We present two distinct but complementary attacks. On most shopping websites, third party trackers r…
The Future of Ad Blocking: An Analytical Framework and New Techniques
Grant Storey, Dillon Reisman, Jonathan Mayer +1
We present a systematic study of ad blocking - and the associated "arms race" - as a security problem. We model ad blocking as a state space with four states and six state transiti…