Googling considered harmful

Proceedings New Security Paradigms Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 67-76

  Conti, Gregory ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Anonymization; AOL; Fingerprinting; Google; Googling; Information disclosure; Privacy; Search; Usable security

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; ANONYMIZATION; FINGERPRINTING; GOOGLE; GOOGLING; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; USABLE SECURITY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA PRIVACY; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 36949001752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1278940.1278951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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