In this second installment of the “No Boundaries” series, we show how a long-known vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers is abused by third-party scripts for tracking on more than a thousand sites. by Gunes Acar, Steven Englehardt, and Arvind Narayanan We show how third-party scripts exploit browsers’ built-in login managers (also called password managers) […]
Archives for December 2017
How have In-Flight Web Page Modification Practices Changed over the Past Ten Years?
December 19, 2017 by
When we browse the web, there are many parties and organizations that can see which websites we visit, because they sit on the path between web clients (our computers and mobile devices), and the web servers hosting the sites we request. Most obviously, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are responsible for transmitting our web traffic, but […]
Why the FCC should prevent ISPs from micromanaging our lives
December 12, 2017 by
Why the FCC should prevent ISPs from micromanaging our lives by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger* Network neutrality prevents broadband Internet service providers from micromanaging our lives online. Constraining the networks this way enables and even empowers Internet users to be active and productive human beings rather than passive consumers. Unfortunately, the network neutrality debate […]
How the Contextual Integrity Framework Helps Explain Children’s Understanding of Privacy and Security Online
December 6, 2017 by
This post discusses a new paper that will be presented at the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). I wrote this paper with co-authors Shalmali Naik, Utkarsha Devkar, Marshini Chetty, Tammy Clegg, and Jessica Vitak. Watching YouTube during breakfast. Playing Animal Jam after school. Asking Google about snakes. Checking […]
