I Know What You're Buying: Privacy Breaches on eBay
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چکیده
eBay is an online marketplace which allows people to easily engage in commerce with one another. Since the market’s online nature precludes many physical cues of trust, eBay has instituted a reputation system through which users accumulate ratings based on their transactions. However, the eBay Feedback System as currently implemented has serious privacy flaws. When sellers leave feedback, buyers’ purchase histories are exposed through no action of their own. In this paper, we describe and execute a series of attacks, leveraging the feedback system to reveal users’ potentially sensitive purchases. As a demonstration, we collect and identify users who have bought gun-related items and sensitive medical tests. We contrast this information leakage with eBay users’ privacy expectations as measured by an online survey. Finally, we make recommendations towards better privacy in the eBay feedback system.
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