@inproceedings{54c46aec689f46e09e78df046e50e0a4,
title = "Quantifying Information Exposure by Web Browsers",
abstract = "Internet surfing entails exchanging numerous HTTP requests between clients and servers. Attached with each request is a string containing plenty of information about the client called User-Agent string. There have been numerous researches that showed the privacy and security risks of User-Agent strings. In this work we aim to minimize those risks by directing users towards using less exposing browsers. In doing so, we propose and test a new method for calculating an exposure score for web browsers based mainly on their User-Agent strings besides other attributes. We then apply this method on a dataset of over a million browsers to infer and compare their exposure scores. Finally, we present a demo web tool that shows how the resulting scores can be leveraged to aid end users. Our results reveal a variation in the exposure scores of these browsers, which creates prospect for safe Internet surfing.",
author = "Fadi Mohsen and Mohamed Shehab and Maxamilliano Lange and Dimka Karastoyanova",
year = "2020",
month = oct,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-63092-8_44",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-63091-1",
volume = "3",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "648--667",
editor = "{Arai }, K. and {Kapoor }, S. and {Bhatia }, R.",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference",
}