Here are seven papers that I think our community will find interesting from the upcoming Usenix Security conference, August 14-16.

Many of them are written by our very own university relay operators, too. :)

--Roger

"Snowflake, a censorship circumvention system using temporary WebRTC proxies" Cecylia Bocovich, Tor Project; Arlo Breault, Wikimedia Foundation; David Fifield and Serene, unaffiliated; Xiaokang Wang, Tor Project https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/bocovich

"Stop, Don't Click Here Anymore: Boosting Website Fingerprinting By Considering Sets of Subpages" Asya Mitseva and Andriy Panchenko, Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU Cottbus, Germany) https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/mitseva

"Does Online Anonymous Market Vendor Reputation Matter?" Alejandro Cuevas and Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/cuevas

"Fingerprinting Obfuscated Proxy Traffic with Encapsulated TLS Handshakes" Diwen Xue, University of Michigan; Michalis Kallitsis, Merit Network, Inc.; Amir Houmansadr, UMass Amherst; Roya Ensafi, University of Michigan https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/xue-fingerpr...

""I just hated it and I want my money back": Data-driven Understanding of Mobile VPN Service Switching Preferences in The Wild" Rohit Raj, Mridul Newar, and Mainack Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/raj

"Security and Privacy Software Creators' Perspectives on Unintended Consequences" Harshini Sri Ramulu, Paderborn University & The George Washington University; Helen Schmitt, Paderborn University; Dominik Wermke, North Carolina State University; Yasemin Acar, Paderborn University & The George Washington University https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/ramulu

"GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale" Nguyen Phong Hoang, University of British Columbia and University of Chicago; Jakub Dalek and Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Citizen Lab - University of Toronto; Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University; Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI International; Michalis Polychronakis, Stony Brook University; Nick Feamster, University of Chicago https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/hoang