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JShelter: Give Me My Browser Back

POLČÁK, L. SALOŇ, M. MAONE, G. HRANICKÝ, R. MCMAHON, M.

Originální název

JShelter: Give Me My Browser Back

Typ

článek ve sborníku ve WoS nebo Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

The web is used daily by billions. Even so, users are not protected from many threats by default. This paper builds on previous web privacy and security research and introduces JShelter, a webextension that fights to return the browser to users. Moreover, we introduce a library helping with common webextension development tasks and fixing loopholes. JShelter focuses on fingerprinting prevention, limitations of rich web APIs, prevention of attacks connected to timing, and learning information about the device, the browser, the user, and the surrounding physical environment and location. During the research of sensor APIs, we discovered a loophole in the sensor timestamps that lets any page observe the device boot time if sensor APIs are enabled in Chromium-based browsers. JShelter provides a fingerprinting report and other feedback that can be used by future web privacy research. Thousands of users around the world use the webextension every day.

Klíčová slova

Browser Fingerprinting, Web Privacy, Web Security, Webextension APIs, JavaScript.

Autoři

POLČÁK, L.; SALOŇ, M.; MAONE, G.; HRANICKÝ, R.; MCMAHON, M.

Vydáno

10. 7. 2023

Nakladatel

SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications

Místo

Řím

ISBN

978-989-758-666-8

Kniha

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography

Strany od

287

Strany do

294

Strany počet

8

URL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01392

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT185115,
  author="Libor {Polčák} and Marek {Saloň} and Giorgio {Maone} and Radek {Hranický} and Michael {McMahon}",
  title="JShelter: Give Me My Browser Back",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography",
  year="2023",
  pages="287--294",
  publisher="SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications",
  address="Řím",
  doi="10.5220/0011965600003555",
  isbn="978-989-758-666-8",
  url="https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01392"
}