FOCI '20
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Digital Borders Cautiously yet Decisively: Digital Filtering in Saudi Arabia | Fatemah Alharbi, Michalis Faloutsos, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh | 13m |
Longitudinal measurements from 2017–2020 test reachability of 18 messaging apps and Alexa’s top 500 sites in 18 categories from four Saudi cities and show… | ||
| Detecting and Evading Censorship-in-Depth: A Case Study of Iran’s Protocol Whitelister | Kevin Bock, Yair Fax, Kyle Reese, Jasraj Singh, Dave Levin | 11m |
Iran’s deployed protocol filter only permits DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS on ports 53, 80, and 443, inspects TCP packets and matches brittle fingerprints (e.g., DNS… | ||
| Triplet Censors: Demystifying Great Firewall’s DNS Censorship Behavior | Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Phillipa Gill, Amir Houmansadr | 12m |
Measures 2.8 billion DNS queries to a Chinese VPS over nine months against the Alexa Top 1M and observes ~120 million forged responses, about 24–24.6k censored… | ||
| Slitheen++: Stealth TLS-based Decoy Routing | Benedikt Birtel, Christian Rossow | 12m |
Slitheen++ claims to stop upstream traffic analysis by hiding covert uploads inside legitimate TLS flows and using HTTP/2 header compression to make space for… | ||
| Turbo Tunnel, a good way to design censorship circumvention protocols | David Fifield | 11m |
Advocates inserting an interior session/reliability layer between application streams and the obfuscation transport so a single logical session survives… | ||
| HTTPT: A Probe-Resistant Proxy | Sergey Frolov, Eric Wustrow | 12m |
Claims a proxy that hides behind real HTTPS servers so active probes cannot tell it from ordinary web traffic. Describes a prototype implementation that routes… | ||
| MIMIQ: Masking IPs with Migration in QUIC | Yashodhar Govil, Liang Wang, Liang Wang, Jennifer Rexford | 12m |
System leverages QUIC connection migration plus a client agent, an allocation server and an edge switch to rotate client IPs frequently without breaking flows… | ||
| Padding Ain't Enough: Assessing the Privacy Guarantees of Encrypted DNS | Jonas Bushart, Christian Rossow | 11m |
Shows that RFC 8467 padding is insufficient by building a classifier that combines packet size and timing into modeled DNS Sequences capturing multi-query… | ||
| A Comprehensive Study of DNS-over-HTTPS Downgrade Attack | Qing Huang, Deliang Chang, Zhou Li | 11m |
A Comprehensive Study of DNS-over-HTTPS Downgrade Attack
Qing Huang, University of California, Irvine; Deliang Chang, Tsinghua University; Zhou Li, University… | ||
| Identifying Disinformation Websites Using Infrastructure Features | Austin Hounsel, Jordan Holland, Ben Kaiser, Kevin Borgolte, Nick Feamster, Jonathan Mayer | 11m |
Claim: infrastructure metadata can flag disinformation sites early. Trained a random forest on 551 disinformation, 553 news, 555 other snapshots using domain… | ||
| Bystanders’ Privacy: The Perspectives of Nannies on Smart Home Surveillance | Julia Bernd, Ruba Abu-Salma, Alisa Frik | 12m |
Study reports interviews with 26 nannies, 16 parents about in-home IoT; methods include thematic analysis with a collaborative code book and planned parallel… | ||
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