All sessions will be held in Grand Ballroom IX–X unless otherwise noted.
Papers are available for download below to registered attendees now and to everyone beginning August 14, 2018. Paper abstracts are available to everyone now. Copyright to the individual works is retained by the author[s].
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
8:00 am–9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Grand Ballroom Foyer
9:00 am–9:10 am
Opening Remarks
Program Co-Chairs: Lex Gill, The Citizen Lab, and Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
9:10 am–10:10 am
Invited Talk
Growing the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
Arturo Filastò and Simone Basso, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
10:10 am–10:40 am
Break with Refreshments
Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:40 am–11:55 am
Takedowns and Shutdowns
Session Chair: Phillipa Gill, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Automatically Generating a Large, Culture-Specific Blocklist for China
Austin Hounsel, Prateek Mittal, and Nick Feamster, Princeton University
A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability
Michael Carl Tschantz, ICSI; Sadia Afroz, ICSI and UC Berkeley; Shaarif Sajid, Shoaib Asif Qazi, and Mobin Javed, LUMS; Vern Paxson, ICSI and UC Berkeley
11:55 am–1:30 pm
Tuesday Luncheon
Grand Ballroom VI
1:30 pm–2:45 pm
Surveillance
Session Chair: Susan E. McGregor, Columbia Journalism School
Exploring User Mental Models of End-to-End Encrypted Communication Tools
Ruba Abu-Salma, University College London; Elissa M. Redmiles, University of Maryland; Blase Ur and Miranda Wei, University of Chicago
A Cryptographic Airbag for Metadata: Protecting Business Records Against Unlimited Search and Seizure
Charles V. Wright, Portland State University; Mayank Varia, Boston University
2:45 pm–3:15 pm
Break with Refreshments
Grand Ballroom Foyer
3:15 pm–4:30 pm
Mobile Apps
Session Chair: Michael Carl Tschantz, International Computer Science Institute
Measuring Privacy Threats in China-Wide Mobile Networks
Mingming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, and Jia Zhang, Tsinghua University; Shuang Hao, University of Texas at Dallas; Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University
4:30 pm–4:40 pm
Mini Break
4:40 pm–5:30 pm
Anti-Censorship
Session Chair: Roya Ensafi, University of Michigan
Analyzing China's Blocking of Unpublished Tor Bridges
Arun Dunna, Ciarán O'Brien, and Phillipa Gill, University of Massachusetts Amherst
5:30 pm–6:00 pm
Rump Session: Special Onion Edition™
Session Chairs: Roya Ensafi, University of Michigan, and Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project