On the privacy risks of publishing anonymized IP network traces

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4237 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 22-32

  Koukis, D ^a   Antonatos, S ^a   Anagnostakis, K G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ADDRESS ANONYMIZATION; PACKET TRACES; PRIVACY RISKS; BROWSING BEHAVIOR; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; NETWORK BEHAVIORS; NETWORK PACKET TRACES; NETWORKING RESEARCHERS; PRIVACY CONCERNS; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33845232198     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11909033_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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