Stanford CIS

Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities

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"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-party cookies dropped by sites and advertisers can be used to tie a user to web traffic without having to worry about dynamic IP addresses,” said the paper, “Cookies that give you away: Evaluating the surveillance implications of web tacking,” written by Dillon Reisman, Steven Englehardt, Christian Eubank, Peter Zimmerman, and Arvind Narayanan."

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