Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing T. Scott Saponas Jonathan Lester Carl Hartung Sameer Agarwal Tadayoshi Kohno August 8, th USENIX Security Symposium
Old Technology: Known Privacy Issues
New Technology: “Unknown” Privacy Issues
RFIDEEG Gaminglarge displaysmobile sensing platforms wearablesHealth displayssmar t phonesambient displays New Technology: “Unknown” Privacy Issues
Nike+iPod Sport Kit Slingbox
unique identifier
spoofed MAC Alice Unwanted Music & Pictures Bob block Interesting Music & Pictures Bob
Strong Identifiers Weak Identifiers Tracking Location Evading Blocking
Slingbox Streams (encrypted) Media
Variable Data Rate Encoding Slingbox
Movie Fingerprint From Throughput 100 ms throughput5 sec throughput trace 1 trace 2 trace 3
Collected 26 Movies Traces
Throughput for Content Identification unaligned tracesaligned tracesaverage trace movie signature query query signature sliding window distance minimum distance
26 Movie Experiment Movie ABad Boys BBad Boys II CBourne Supremacy DBreak-Up EHarry Potter FHarry Potter III GIncredibles HMen in Black II IOcean's Eleven JShort Circuit KX2 LX-Men MAir Force One NBourne Identity OCaddy Shack PClueless QHappy Gilmore RJurassic Park S Nightmare Before Christmas TOffice Space URed October VAustin Powers WAustin Powers II XBruce Almighty YHurrican ZShort Circuit II best match Compare movie database 12… 50 ERROR
VBR Leaks Information 10 Min: 62% true positive (chance 4%) 40 Min: 77% true positive (chance 4%) 40 Min: 15 movies ≥ 98% true positive 10 Minute40 Minute
VBR Leaks Information Encryption is Not Enough – Traffic Analysis – Throughput Fingerprint Limitations – 26 movie library – Lab setting Extensions – Recognizing specific movies – Watermarking
Thanks! Acknowledgements: Yaw Anokwa, Kate Everitt, Kevin Fu, J. Alex Halderman, Karl Koscher, Ed Lazowska, David Molnar, Fabian Monrose, Lincoln Ritter, Avi Rubin, Jason Schultz, Adam Stubblefield, Dan Wallach, and David Wetherall T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal, Tadayoshi Kohno