The digital Marauder's map: A new threat to location privacy

Xinwen Fu; Nan Zhang; Aniket Pingley; Wei Yu; Jie Wang; Wei Zhao

doi:10.1109/ICDCS.2009.57

The digital Marauder's map: A new threat to location privacy

Xinwen Fu, Nan Zhang, Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Jie Wang, Wei Zhao

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

"The Marauder's Map" is a magical map in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". It shows all moving objects within the "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry". This paper introduces a similar attack to location privacy in wireless networks. Our system, namely the digital Marauder's map, can reveal the locations of WiFi-enabled mobile devices within the coverage area of a single high-gain antenna. The digital Marauder's map is built solely with off-the-shelf wireless equipments, and features a mobile design that can be quickly deployed to a new location and instantly used without training. We present a comprehensive set of theoretical analysis and experimental results which demonstrate the coverage and localization accuracy of the digital Marauder's map.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCS, 09
Pages	589-596
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2009.57
State	Published - 2009
Event	2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCS, 09 - Montreal, QC, Canada Duration: Jun 22 2009 → Jun 26 2009

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Other	2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCS, 09
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal, QC
Period	6/22/09 → 6/26/09

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Software
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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Fu, X., Zhang, N., Pingley, A., Yu, W., Wang, J., & Zhao, W. (2009). The digital Marauder's map: A new threat to location privacy. In 2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCS, 09 (pp. 589-596). Article 5158472 (Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2009.57

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