Double-Edged Shield

Double-Edged Shield

Study and attacks on fingerprinting users through customized ad-blocker filter lists.

Fingerprinting study using customized ad-blocker filter lists as an identification vector. Presents three attacks achieving 84% list identification, 0.72-bit entropy fingerprints, and median anonymity sets of 48 users. Provides datasets, reproducibility artifacts, and a honeypage for data collection.

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Security and Privacy Engineering Laboratory

Security and Privacy Engineering Laboratory
Carmela Troncoso

Prof. Carmela Troncoso

The Security and Privacy Engineering Laboratory develops tools and methodologies to help engineers building systems that respect societal values, such as security, privacy or non discrimination. Currently, they are working on
  • Machine Learning impact on society
  • Evaluating privacy in complex systems
  • Engineering privacy-preserving systems

This page was last edited on 2026-03-03.