Publications

• Communication Breakdown: Modularizing Application Tunneling for Signaling Around Censorship. Paul Vines, Samuel McKay, Jesse Jenter, Suresh Krishnaswamy. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July, 2024.

• Surveillance: From Solutions to New Problems. Doctoral Dissertation.

• [Slides]Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget - or - How Alice Can Buy Ads to Track Bob. Paul Vines, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), October, 2017.

• Rook: Using Video Games as Low-Bandwidth Censorship Resistant Communication Platform. Paul Vines, Tadayoshi Kohno. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), October, 2015.

• Static Analysis of Implicit Control Flow: Resolving Java Reflection and Android Intents. Paulo Barros, René Just, Suzanne Millstein, Paul Vines, Werner Dietl, Marcelo D’Amorim, Michael D. Ernst. ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), November 2015.

• Collaborative Verification of Information Flow for a High-Assurance App Store Michael D. Ernst, René Just, Suzanne Millstein, Werner Dietl*, Stuart Pernsteiner, Franziska Roesner, Karl Koscher, Paulo Barros, Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Paul Vines, and Edward X. Wu. 21st Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 2014.

• R2B2: Automated PIN-Cracking Robot Justin Engler, Paul Vines. DefCon, August 2013 (Video, Slides)

Press Coverage

ADINT

• ADINT Press Release Site.

• WIRED - It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone’s Location with Mobile Ads.

• BoingBoing - Mobile ad technique allows stalkers to follow you around a city for less than $1000.

• UW Tech Policy Lab - Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget.

R2B2

• Forbes - PIN-Punching Robot Can Crack Your Phone’s Security Code In Less Than 24 Hours.

• IO9 -This obsessive robot can crack your phone’s PIN in less than 24 hours.