Name
Abstract | ||
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In recent times, we have witnessed a trend in which communications data is increasingly collected and made open source by the public. A prominent example is the tracking of aircraft movements using unencrypted air traffic control (ATC) communication. This paper studies the implications of such new open source aircraft datasets on the operational privacy of military and government actors. We use publicly available aircraft metadata in conjunction with unfiltered ATC communication gathered from the collaborative sensor network OpenSky. We show that using these datasets, it is possible to collect, process and analyze large numbers of movements in an automated fashion, providing insights into potentially sensitive operations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.23919/CYCON.2018.8405023 | 2018 10th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
aircraft movements,open source aircraft datasets,operational privacy,air traffic communications,OSINT,government aircraft,communications data,air traffic control communication,aircraft metadata,ATC communication,sensor network OpenSky | Metadata,Wireless security,Air traffic control,Computer security,Computer science,Wireless sensor network,Government | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
2325-5366 | 978-1-5386-5259-6 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.38 | 4 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Strohmeier | 1 | 169 | 22.87 |
| Matthew Smith | 2 | 5 | 3.02 |
| Daniel Moser | 3 | 19 | 3.45 |
| Matthias Schäfer | 4 | 114 | 16.20 |
| Vincent Lenders | 5 | 737 | 72.53 |
| Ivan Martinovic | 6 | 930 | 82.51 |