“All of them claim to be the best”: A multi-perspective study of VPN users and VPN providers

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  • Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022
  • Time: 11am - 12pm EST / 4pm - 5pm UTC (What time is it in my city?)
  • Who: Reethika Ramesh, CS PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, and lead researcher at VPNalyzer
  • Location: Zoom

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All of them claim to be the best”: A multi-perspective study of VPN users and VPN providers (Presentation and Q&A)

Earlier this year the VPNalyzer team “All of them claim to be the best”: A multi-perspective study of VPN users and VPN providers, reviewing the key findings of their study of 1,252 VPN users and qualitative interviews of 9 VPN providers which highlights the human factors of VPN use. In this session, join Reethika Ramesh, lead VPNalyzer researcher and co-author of the aforementioned paper, to hear about the key takeaways from the VPN user survey and VPN provider interviews and find out about new developments with the VPNalyzer Tool, a desktop tool that helps test and identify security and privacy issues with your VPN.

Bio: Reethika Ramesh is a fifth year PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Michigan where she is working with Prof. Roya Ensafi. Her research interests are digital security and privacy. She is currently lead researcher for VPNalyzer, an academic research project that aims to analyze the VPN ecosystem through large-scale data-driven studies.

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