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Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Christian Kreibich, Phillipa Gill, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. Haystack: A Multi-Purpose Mobile Vantage Point in User Space, Technical Report, October 2016.
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Abstract:
Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range
of daily tasks, their operation remains largely opaque. A number
of previous stud- ies have addressed elements of this problem in
a partial fashion, trading off analytic comprehensiveness and
deployment scale. We overcome the barriers to large-scale
deployment (e.g., requiring rooted devices) and
comprehensiveness of previous efforts by taking a novel approach
that leverages the VPN API on mobile devices to design Haystack,
an in-situ mobile measurement platform that operates exclusively
on the device, providing full access to the device’s network
traffic and local context without requiring root access. We
present the design of Haystack and its implementation in an
Android app that we deploy via standard distribution
channels. Using data collected from 450 users of the app, we
exemplify the advantages of Haystack over the state of the art
and demonstrate its seamless experience even under demanding
conditions. We also demonstrate its utility to users and
researchers in characterizing mobile traffic and privacy risks.
BibTeX:
@techreport{RVS+16,
author = "Abbas Razaghpanah and Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and Srikanth Sundaresan and Christian Kreibich and Phillipa Gill and Mark Allman and Vern Paxson",
title = "{Haystack: A Multi-Purpose Mobile Vantage Point in User Space}",
year = 2016,
number = "arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01419",
month = oct,
}
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