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RegTrack: Uncovering Global Disparities in Third-party Advertising and Tracking
Tanya Prasad, Rut Vora, Soo Yee Lim +2
Third party advertising and tracking (A&T) are pervasive across the web, yet user exposure varies significantly with browser choice, browsing location, and hosting jurisdiction. We…
Automatic Generation of Web Censorship Probe Lists
Jenny Tang, Leo Alvarez, Arjun Brar +2
Domain probe lists--used to determine which URLs to probe for Web censorship--play a critical role in Internet censorship measurement studies. Indeed, the size and accuracy of the…
Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan's Internet Censorship: A Case Study in Large-Scale Measurements of a Low-Penetration Country
Sadia Nourin, Van Tran, Xi Jiang +4
Since 2006, Turkmenistan has been listed as one of the few Internet enemies by Reporters without Borders due to its extensively censored Internet and strictly regulated information…
Augmenting Rule-based DNS Censorship Detection at Scale with Machine Learning
Jacob Brown, Xi Jiang, Van Tran +5
The proliferation of global censorship has led to the development of a plethora of measurement platforms to monitor and expose it. Censorship of the domain name system (DNS) is a k…
Measuring the Accessibility of Domain Name Encryption and Its Impact on Internet Filtering
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Michalis Polychronakis, Phillipa Gill
Most online communications rely on DNS to map domain names to their hosting IP address(es). Previous work has shown that DNS-based network interference is widespread due to the une…
How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Jakub Dalek +6
The DNS filtering apparatus of China's Great Firewall (GFW) has evolved considerably over the past two decades. However, most prior studies of China's DNS filtering were performed…
Domain Name Encryption Is Not Enough: Privacy Leakage via IP-based Website Fingerprinting
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Phillipa Gill +1
Although the security benefits of domain name encryption technologies such as DNS over TLS (DoT), DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) are clear, their positive i…
The Web is Still Small After More Than a Decade
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Michalis Polychronakis +1
Understanding web co-location is essential for various reasons. For instance, it can help one to assess the collateral damage that denial-of-service attacks or IP-based blocking ca…
K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Ivan Lin, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia +1
Centralized DNS over HTTPS/TLS (DoH/DoT) resolution, which has started being deployed by major hosting providers and web browsers, has sparked controversy among Internet activists…
Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nikita Borisov +2
As Internet users have become more savvy about the potential for their Internet communication to be observed, the use of network traffic encryption technologies (e.g., HTTPS/TLS) i…
Measuring I2P Censorship at a Global Scale
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Sadie Doreen, Michalis Polychronakis
The prevalence of Internet censorship has prompted the creation of several measurement platforms for monitoring filtering activities. An important challenge faced by these platform…
ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform
Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg +4
Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time an…
An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its Censorship Resistance
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Panagiotis Kintis, Manos Antonakakis +1
Tor and I2P are well-known anonymity networks used by many individuals to protect their online privacy and anonymity. Tor's centralized directory services facilitate the understand…
Towards an Autonomous System Monitor for Mitigating Correlation Attacks in the Tor Network
Nguyen Phong Hoang
After carefully considering the scalability problem in Tor and exhaustively evaluating related works on AS-level adversaries, the author proposes ASmoniTor, which is an autonomous…
Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in GLBT-focused Location-based Dating Applications
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa
Trilateration is one of the well-known threat models to the user's location privacy in location-based apps, especially those contain highly sensitive information such as dating app…
Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in Dating Apps
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa
Trilateration has recently become one of the well-known threat models to the user's location privacy in location-based applications (aka: location-based services or LBS), especiall…