I know who you are: Deanonymization using Facebook Likes
Abstract
This paper presents a method to deanonymize people using fanpages’ Likes of
Facebook users. The strategy shows that information of Likes can be easily crawled from
Facebook. Combined with an interactive version of browser-history-stealing it can be used to get
identities of users on a website. The attack is possible because of the existence of Facebook’ Likes
that can be used as a fingerprint. The claim was tested and discussed with real-world collected
data. With the assumption of at least 4 collected Likes per user, 99.91% of them can be
deanonymized through the fingerprint of Likes. Apart from that we provide potential solutions for
protection of identities in social media.
- Citation
- BibTeX
Rüdian, S., Pinkwart, N. & Liu, Z.,
(2018).
I know who you are: Deanonymization using Facebook Likes.
In:
Czarnecki, C., Brockmann, C., Sultanow, E., Koschmider, A. & Selzer, A.
(Hrsg.),
Workshops der
INFORMATIK 2018 -
Architekturen, Prozesse,
Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit.
Bonn:
Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH.
(S. 109-118).
@inproceedings{mci/Rüdian2018,
author = {Rüdian, Sylvio AND Pinkwart, Niels AND Liu, Zhi},
title = {I know who you are: Deanonymization using Facebook Likes},
booktitle = {Workshops der INFORMATIK 2018 - Architekturen, Prozesse, Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit},
year = {2018},
editor = {Czarnecki, Christian AND Brockmann, Carsten AND Sultanow, Eldar AND Koschmider, Agnes AND Selzer, Annika} ,
pages = { 109-118 },
publisher = {Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH},
address = {Bonn}
}
author = {Rüdian, Sylvio AND Pinkwart, Niels AND Liu, Zhi},
title = {I know who you are: Deanonymization using Facebook Likes},
booktitle = {Workshops der INFORMATIK 2018 - Architekturen, Prozesse, Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit},
year = {2018},
editor = {Czarnecki, Christian AND Brockmann, Carsten AND Sultanow, Eldar AND Koschmider, Agnes AND Selzer, Annika} ,
pages = { 109-118 },
publisher = {Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH},
address = {Bonn}
}
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ISBN: 978-3-88579-679-4
ISSN: 1617-5468
xmlui.MetaDataDisplay.field.date: 2018
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Content Type: Text/Conference Paper