Dude, Where’s that IP? Circumventing measurement-based IP geolocation

Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 241-256

  Gill, Phillipa ^a   Ganjali, Yashar ^a   Wong, Bernard ^b   Lie, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

DETECTABILITY; GEOLOCATIONS; IP GEOLOCATION; MEASUREMENT-BASED; ON-LINE CONTENTS; TOPOLOGY AWARE; TRADE OFF;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 85015375134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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