Our smart devices are watching us
It's time for us to watch them
What is IoT Inspector?
Built by academic researchers, IoT Inspector is an open-source desktop app that lets you visualize what your smart home IoT devices are doing behind the scene and identify potential security and privacy violations
Visualize network activities
What are my devices doing?
See what your devices are doing, how many bytes they are sending and receiving, and which companies they are communicating with
Identify security and privacy risks
Are my devices hacked?
Based on the network activities, you can see whether your devices are sending data when they are not supposed to, or to companies you don't know about
Learn more: research paper | presentation video | how we collect data | research findings | source code | slide deck
Media coverage: NPR | fast company | washington post | verge | wired | the atlantic | cbc news | 9to5mac | techcrunch | gizmodo | WHCR Voice of Harlem
Who are we?
We are academic researchers from all around the world
Prof. Danny Y. Huang (New York University)
Prof. Anupam Das (North Carolina State University)
Rameen Mahmood (New York University)
Vijay Prakash (New York University)
Md. Jakaria (North Carolina State University)
Prof. Noah Apthorpe (Colgate University)
Prof. Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
Dr. Deepak Kumar (Stanford University)
Prof. Gunes Acar (Radboud University)
Prof. Frank Li (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Prof. Arvind Narayanan (Princeton University)
This work is supported in part by National Science Foundation Award #1739809, as well as Amazon, CableLabs, Cisco, Comcast, Hewlett Foundation, and Microsoft.Publications
IoT Inspector: Crowdsourcing Labeled Network Traffic from Smart Home Devices at Scale
Danny Yuxing. Huang, Noah Apthorpe, Gunes Acar, Frank Li, and Nick Feamster
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT / Ubicomp). 2020.Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices
Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam, Gunes Acar, Ben Burgess, Arunesh Mathur, Danny Yuxing Huang, Nick Feamster, Edward W. Felten, Prateek Mittal, Arvind Narayanan
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). 2019.
Keeping the Smart Home Private with Smart(er) IoT Traffic Shaping
Noah Apthorpe, Danny Yuxing Huang, Dillon Reisman, Arvind Narayanan, Nick Feamster
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). 2019.
Noah Apthorpe, Sarah Varghese, Nick Feamster
USENIX Security Symposium. 2019.
Selling a Single Item with Negative Externalities (a case for IoT regulation)
Matheus Xavier Ferreira, Danny Yuxing Huang, Tithi Chattopadhyay, Nick Feamster, S. Matthew Weinberg
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW). 2019.
User Perceptions of Smart Home IoT Privacy
Serena Zheng, Noah Apthorpe, Marshini Chetty, Nick Feamster.
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). 2018.
Fast Web-based Attacks to Discover and Control IoT Devices
Gunes Acar, Danny Y. Huang, Frank Li, Arvind Narayanan, and Nick Feamster
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on IoT Security and Privacy. 2018.
Security and Privacy Analyses of Internet of Things Children's Toys
Gordon Chu, Noah Apthorpe, Nick Feamster
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J). 2018.
Machine Learning DDoS Detection for Consumer Internet of Things Devices
Rohan Doshi, Noah Apthorpe, Nick Feamster
IEEE Deep Learning and Security Workshop (DLS). 2018.
Discovering IoT Smart Home Privacy Norms using Contextual Integrity
Noah Apthorpe, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Arunesh Mathur, Dillon Reisman, Nick Feamster
ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Ubicomp/IMWUT). 2018.
Cleartext Data Transmissions in Consumer IoT Medical Devices
Daniel Wood, Noah Apthorpe, Nick Feamster
Workshop on Internet of Things Security and Privacy (IoT S&P). 2017
Closing the Blinds: Four Strategies for Protecting Smart Home Privacy from Network Observers
Noah Apthorpe, Dillon Reisman, Nick Feamster
Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro). 2017.
A Smart Home is No Castle: Privacy Vulnerabilities of Encrypted IoT Traffic
Noah Apthorpe, Dillon Reisman, Nick Feamster
Data and Algorithmic Transparency Workshop (DAT). 2016.
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