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Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering
Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino
In-network devices around the world monitor and tamper with connections for many reasons, including intrusion prevention, combating spam or phishing, and country-level censorship. Connection tampering seeks to block access to specific domain names or keywo ...
New York2023Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users' activity on fringe social media
Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Online platforms have banned ("deplatformed") influencers, communities, and even entire websites to reduce content deemed harmful. Deplatformed users often migrate to alternative platforms, which raises concerns about the effectiveness of deplatforming. He ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023Toward Internet Performance Transparency
From medical support to education and remote work, our everyday lives increasingly depend on Internet performance. When users experience poor performance, however, the decentralization of the Internet allows limited visibility into which network is respons ...
EPFL2022Encrypted DNS double right arrow Privacy? A Traffic Analysis Perspective
Carmela González Troncoso, Sandra Deepthy Siby, Narseo Vallina Rodriguez
Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup. Lookups are performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surveillance, and censorship. To address these issues, large organizations s ...
INTERNET SOC2020Traffic Receipts for Network Transparency
Today's Internet is not transparent: when packets get lost or delayed, there is typically no information about where the problem occurred, hence no information about who is responsible. This results in Internet service providers (ISPs) offering service lev ...
EPFL2018Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification ofWeb Downloads for the Masses
Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Mauro Cherubini, Bertil Chapuis, Alexandre Meylan
Internet users can download software for their computers from app stores (e.g., Mac App Store and Windows Store) or from other sources, such as the developers' websites. Most Internet users in the US rely on the latter, according to our representative stud ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018Une mise en récit des comportements pour dessiner l’urbanité : regard sur les Pédibus en France et en Suisse Romande. La méthode de l’analyse du contenu comme décrypteur des web-discours
« Pédibus… c’est pratique, agréable, ça maintient en forme, ça ne pollue pas ! » Cette campagne d'information et de sensibilisation du Pédibus reflète la mise à l’agenda des politiques publiques locales en faveur des déplacements à pied. Elle s’inscrit dan ...
2017Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology
Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer
The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...
ACM2017Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Connected Medical and Health Devices and Connected Vehicles
Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin
IRGC organised in 2016 an expert workshop on 'Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits in the Internet of Things (IoT), applied to connected vehicles and medical devices. In those sectors, connectivity improves both safety and vulnerability, but cybersec ...
International Risk Governance Center2017