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Anonymous (hacker group)

Related publications (19)

Analyzing and Protecting Communication Metadata

Most communication systems (e.g., e-mails, instant messengers, VPNs) use encryption to prevent third parties from learning sensitive information.However, encrypted communications protect the contents but often leak metadata: the amount of data sent and the ...

EPFL2021

Crowd dynamics, Co-creation, and Values in technology innovation: a case study in robotics

Kristina Schoonjans, Gianluigi Viscusi

In this article I am going to analyze crowd dynamics in co-creation settings (Cordella, Paletti, & Maha, 2018; Ramaswamy & Ozcan, 2018; Viscusi & Tucci, 2018). Furthermore, I am going to investigate the connection between these dynamics and the values info ...

2019

Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system’s capacity scales near ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

Building Privacy-Preserving Cryptographic Credentials from Federated Online Identities

Bryan Alexander Ford, Ennan Zhai

Federated identity providers, e.g., Facebook and PayPal, offer a convenient means for authenticating users to third-party applications. Unfortunately such cross-site authentications carry privacy and tracking risks. For example, federated identity provider ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

PriFi: A Low-Latency and Tracking-Resistant Protocol for Local-Area Anonymous Communication

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Mahdi Zamani, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Ludovic Barman

Popular anonymity mechanisms such as Tor provide low communication latency but are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks that can de-anonymize users. Moreover, known traffic-analysis-resistant techniques such as Dissent are impractical for use in latency- ...

ACM2016

Riffle: An Efficient Communication System With Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, David Lazar

Existing anonymity systems sacrifice anonymity for efficient communication or vice-versa. Onion-routing achieves low latency, high bandwidth, and scalable anonymous communication, but is susceptible to traffic analysis attacks. Designs based on DC-Nets, on ...

2016

AnonRep: Towards Tracking-Resistant Anonymous Reputation

Bryan Alexander Ford, Ennan Zhai

Reputation systems help users evaluate information quality and incentivize civilized behavior, often by tallying feedback from other users such as "likes" or votes and linking these scores to a user’s long-term identity. This identity linkage enables user ...

USENIX2016

Security Analysis of Accountable Anonymity in Dissent

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Users often wish to communicate anonymously on the Internet, for example in group discussion or instant messaging forums. Existing solutions are vulnerable to misbehaving users, however, who may abuse their anonymity to disrupt communication. Dining Crypto ...

2014

SpeakUp in the Classroom: Anonymous Temporary Social Media for Better Interactions

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Student participation in class is an important aspect of the learning experience, and can provide valuable feedback for teachers. However, getting students to interact in large classrooms is challenging. This paper presents SpeakUp, a mobile temporary soci ...

2014

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