Hope of Delivery: Extracting User Locations From Mobile Instant Messengers

2022/10/19 by Theodor Schnitzler, Katharina Kohls, Evangelos Bitsikas +1 · 2 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

paper · pdf · doi:10.14722/ndss.2023.23188

Abstract

Contains fulltext : 289928.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)

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Discussions

• Hope of Delivery: Extracting User Locations From Mobile Instant Messengers [hn, 12 points, 0 comments]
• @smakelainen.bsky.social incidentally: obs not re. cell triang’n but peripherally interesting… did you see this in the full text. Quasi-triangulation via notification receipt timing!? I had no idea th [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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