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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
No Place to Hide that Bytes Won’t Reveal: Sniffing Location-Based Encrypted Traffic to Track a User’s Position
verfasst von : Giuseppe Ateniese, Briland Hitaj, Luigi Vincenzo Mancini, Nino Vincenzo Verde, Antonio Villani
Erschienen in: Network and System Security
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News reports of the last few years indicated that several intelligence agencies are able to monitor large networks or entire portions of the Internet backbone. Such a powerful adversary has only recently been considered by the academic literature.In this paper, we propose a new adversary model for Location Based Services (LBSs). The model takes into account an unauthorized third party, different from the LBS provider itself, that wants to infer the location and monitor the movements of a LBS user. We show that such an adversary can extrapolate the position of a target user by just analyzing the size and the timing of the encrypted traffic exchanged between that user and the LBS provider. We performed a thorough analysis of a widely deployed location based app that comes pre-installed with many Android devices: GoogleNow. The results are encouraging and highlight the importance of devising more effective countermeasures against powerful adversaries to preserve the privacy of LBS users.