3 papers
cs.NI2025
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.…
cs.CR2025
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…
cs.CV2025
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…