Internet geolocation: Evasion and counterevasion

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Muir, James A ^a   Van Oorschot, Paul C ^b  

^a Cloakware Corporation   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adversarial environment; Anonymizing network; Evasion; Internet geolocation; Tor

Indexed keywords

ADVERSARIAL ENVIRONMENTS; ANONYMIZING NETWORK; CREDIT CARD FRAUDS; DIGITAL CONTENTS; END-USERS; EVASION; GEOLOCATIONS; INTERNET USERS; IP ADDRESSS; OR-NETWORKS; PROXY SERVER; ROUND-TRIP TIME; SECURITY APPLICATION; STRAIGHTFORWARD TECHNIQUES; TARGETED MARKETING; TOR;

COMPUTER CRIME; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; SERVERS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77955884914     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1592451.1592455     Document Type: Article

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