TrackMeNot-so-good-after-all

TrackMeNot-so-good-after-all

TrackMeNot is a Firefox plugin with laudable intentions - protecting your privacy. By issuing a customizable stream of random search queries on its users' behalf, TrackMeNot surmises that enough search noise will prevent its users' true query profiles from being discerned. However, we find...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2012-11
Hauptverfasser: Al-Rfou', Rami, Jannen, William, Patwardhan, Nikhil
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Sprache:eng
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Clustering
Queries
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Zusammenfassung:TrackMeNot is a Firefox plugin with laudable intentions - protecting your privacy. By issuing a customizable stream of random search queries on its users' behalf, TrackMeNot surmises that enough search noise will prevent its users' true query profiles from being discerned. However, we find that clustering queries by semantic relatedness allows us to disentangle a nontrivial subset of true user queries from TrackMeNot issued noise.
ISSN:2331-8422