I know where you are and what you are sharing: Exploiting P2P communications to invade users' privacy

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-59

  Le Blond, Stevens ^a   Zhang, Chao ^b   Legout, Arnaud ^c   Ross, Keith ^b   Dabbous, Walid ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

file sharing; mobility; privacy; skype

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; DATAGRAMS; FILE SHARING; INTERNET USAGE; INTERNET USERS; IP ADDRESSS; LINKABILITY; MOBILITY PATTERN; P2P COMMUNICATIONS; PRIVACY ISSUE; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; SKYPE;

CARRIER MOBILITY; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA PRIVACY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 83055174716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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