Operational Security 101

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Last week, Andrew Tate got into a Twitter fight with Greta Thunberg, both taking jibes at each other. It got ugly — and the next day, Romanian authorities used a pizza box visible in his response video to confirm his location and arrest him.

You genuinely could not write a better operational security case study.

Operational security, or OPSEC, started as a military concept — protecting information about your own operations from an adversary who might use it against you. In the digital age, it applies to everyone: activists, executives, journalists, and apparently influencers who pick fights on Twitter.

Preserving Location Privacy

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Institution: Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat
Published: Springer, 2020
Full paper: Read on Springer →

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This senior year project investigated techniques for preserving the location privacy of mobile users — a problem that has grown significantly with the proliferation of location-aware applications and services.

The research reviewed and evaluated existing privacy-preserving mechanisms including k-anonymity, differential privacy approaches applied to location data, and obfuscation strategies, with a focus on their practical trade-offs between privacy guarantees and service utility.

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Operational Security 101

Preserving Location Privacy

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