Paper Info
Title
On the Workings and Current Practices of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting
Abstract
By analyzing the code of three popular browser-fingerprinting code providers, the authors reveal the techniques that allow websites to track users without client-side identifiers. They expose questionable practices, such as the circumvention of HTTP proxies to discover a user's real IP address and the installation of intrusive browser plug-ins. In addition, they measure the adoption of fingerprinting on the Web and evaluate user-agent-spoofing browser extensions, showing that current commercial approaches can bypass the extensions and take advantage of their shortcomings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MSP.2013.160
IEEE Security & Privacy
Keywords
Field
DocType
http proxies,data privacy,online front-ends,do not track,browser extensions,web-based device fingerprinting,privacy,internet,browser-fingerprinting code providers,fingerprinting,user-agent-spoofing browser extensions,web tracking,ip address,intrusive browser plug-ins installation,security of data,fingerprint recognition,security,object recognition
World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Ip address,Identifier,Computer science,Computer security,Fingerprint recognition,Web application,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
3
1540-7993
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.46
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nick Nikiforakis186553.35
Alexandros Kapravelos232420.58
Wouter Joosen32898287.70
Christopher Kruegel48799516.05
Frank Piessens52455162.28
Giovanni Vigna67121507.72