Internet Privacy Beneath the Surface
As we are increasingly forced to grapple with the scale and scope of privacy compromises, online privacy protections have become an active topic of public debate and legal development. Important though discussions of law and policy are, the only way to ensure privacy is if the underlying technology itself protects sensitive characteristics. The complex interactions of layered networking protocols create emergent privacy threats that are neither obvious nor intuitive, and cannot be prevented until they are understood. This demo shows how these attacks can exploit the semantics of IP addresses across the network stack to expose potentially sensitive information, and how our work on naming and addressing on the Internet can prevent such attacks.
Keywords
Privacy, Internet, Mass Surveillance, Identifier-Locator Network Protocol
Staff
[Saleem Bhatti]{snb6} and Gregor Haywood