Nicholas Weaver

Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers

2015

Recently, the operators of the national censorship infrastructure of China began to employ "active probing" to detect and block the use of privacy tools. This probing works by passively monitoring the network for suspicious traffic, …

Cybercasing 2.0: You Get What You Pay For

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Under U.S. law, marketing databases exist under almost no legal restrictions concerning accuracy, access, or confidentiality. We explore the possible (mis)use of these databases in a criminal context by conducting two experiments. First, we show …