Michalis Kallitsis

TL;DR: It is argued that Mirai may represent a sea change in the evolutionary development of botnets--the simplicity through which devices were infected and its precipitous growth, and that novice malicious techniques can compromise enough low-end devices to threaten even some of the best-defended targets.

TL;DR: Initial results from the world's first ISP-scale field trial of a refraction networking system demonstrate that TapDance can be practically realized at ISP scale with good performance and at a reasonable cost, potentially paving the way for long-term, large-scale deployments of TapD dance or other refraction network schemes in the future.

TL;DR: The world’s first production deployment of a Refraction Networking system that uses a highperformance implementation of the TapDance protocol and is enabled as a transport in the popular circumvention app Psiphon is established.

TL;DR: In the longer term, this work urges commercial VPN providers to be more transparent about their obfuscation approaches and to adopt more principled detection countermeasures, such as those developed in censorship circumvention research.