A look at how our Snifflab test environment works to collect packets and man-in-the-middle HTTPS communications for easy security research.
Posts By: Andrew Hilts
Half Baked: The Opportunity to Secure Cookie-based Identifiers from Passive Surveillance
We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of a research paper at the 5th USENIX Workshop for Free and Open Communications on the Internet. The paper explores the security levels of the top 500 websites in each category of the Alexa rankings.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
Andrew Hilts presented Open Effect research at the 2015 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
Open Effect Fitness Tracker Study
This page serves as an introduction to Open Effect’s Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security study. The study is funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and is taking place currently until March 2016. Project Description From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s page: Fitness tracking devices collect highly-sensitive personal… Read more »
CIRA funds OE to improve “Access My Info”
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has just announced Open Effect as one of the funding recipients of its Community Investment Program.