Pierre Laperdrix

Full-time researcher at CNRS

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About Me

I am currently a full-time researcher (Chargé de Recherche) for CNRS in the CRIStAL laboratory. I am working in the SPIRALS team on computer security and privacy with a touch of software engineering.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the PragSec lab at Stony Brook University and, after, in the Secure Web Applications Group at Cispa.

I obtained my PhD working on browser fingerprinting in the DiverSE team at INRIA Rennes where I developed the AmIUnique.org and Fingerprint Central websites.

Scientific publications

  • 2024
  • The Devil is in the Details: Detection, Measurement and Lawfulness of Server-Side Tracking on the Web

    Imane Fouad, Cristiana Santos and Pierre Laperdrix
    Proceedings of the 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2024)
    Bristol, UK

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  • Free Proxies Unmasked: A Vulnerability and Longitudinal Analysis of Free Proxy Services

    Naif Mehanna, Walter Rudametkin, Pierre Laperdrix and Antoine Vastel
    Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb 2024)
    San Diego, CA, USA

    - Best Paper Award
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  • 2023
  • UA-Radar: Exploring the Impact of User Agents on the Web

    Jean Luc Intumwayase, Imane Fouad, Pierre Laperdrix and Romain Rouvoy
    Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2023)
    Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • Breaking Bad: Quantifying the Addiction of Web Elements to JavaScript

    Romain Fouquet, Pierre Laperdrix and Romain Rouvoy
    Journal ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
    - Media coverage NextInpact (FR)
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  • 2022
  • Multi-variant Execution at the Edge

    Javier Cabrera Arteaga, Pierre Laperdrix, Martin Monperrus and Benoit Baudry
    Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2022)
    Los Angeles, CA, USA

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  • The Price to Play: A Privacy Analysis of Free and Paid Games in the Android Ecosystem

    Pierre Laperdrix, Naif Mehanna, Antonin Durey and Walter Rudametkin
    Proceedings of the 2022 edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2022)
    Online

    - Media coverage Inria (FR) Journal du CNRS (FR) JV Culture Jeu Vidéo n°95 (FR)
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  • JSRehab: Weaning Common Web Interface Components from JavaScript Addiction

    Romain Fouquet, Pierre Laperdrix and Romain Rouvoy
    Companion proceedings of the 2022 edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2022, Special track: "Web developer and W3C")
    Online

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  • DRAWNAPART: A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting

    Tomer Laor, Naif Mehanna, Antonin Durey, Vitaly Dyadyuk, Pierre Laperdrix, Clémentine Maurice, Yossi Oren, Romain Rouvoy, Walter Rudametkin and Yuval Yarom
    Proceedings of the 29th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2022)
    San Diego, CA, USA

    - First Place at CSAW'22 MENA Applied Research Competition
    - Media coverage Forbes The Hacker News BleepingComputer BitDefender TechRadar Gizmodo
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  • 2021
  • SoK: In Search of Lost Time: A Review of JavaScript Timers in Browsers

    Thomas Rokicki, Clémentine Maurice and Pierre Laperdrix
    Proceedings of the 6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P 2021)
    Online

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  • Fingerprinting in Style: Detecting Browser Extensions via Injected Style Sheets

    Pierre Laperdrix, Oleksii Starov, Quan Chen, Alexandros Kapravelos and Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec. 2021)
    Online

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  • FP-Redemption: Studying Browser Fingerprinting Adoption for the Sake of Web Security

    Antonin Durey, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy
    Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2021)
    Online (acceptance rate: 29%)

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  • Déjà vu: Abusing Browser Cache Headers to Identify and Track Online Users

    Vikas Mishra, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin and Romain Rouvoy
    Proceedings of the 21st Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2021)
    Online

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  • Careful Who You Trust: Studying the Pitfalls of Cross-Origin Communication

    Gordon Meiser, Pierre Laperdrix and Ben Stock
    Proceedings of the 6th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2021)
    Online

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  • 2020

  • Web Runner 2049: Evaluating Third-Party Anti-bot Services

    Babak Amin Azad, Oleksii Starov, Pierre Laperdrix and Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2020)
    Lisboa, Portugal (acceptance rate: 29%)

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  • Taming The Shape Shifter: Detecting Anti-fingerprinting Browsers

    Babak Amin Azad, Oleksii Starov, Pierre Laperdrix and Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2020)
    Lisboa, Portugal (acceptance rate: 29%)

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  • Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem

    Vikas Mishra, Pierre Laperdrix, Antoine Vastel, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy and Martin Lopatka
    Proceedings of the 2020 edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2020)
    Taipei, Taïwan (acceptance rate: 19%)

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  • Browser fingerprinting: A survey

    Pierre Laperdrix, Nataliia Bielova, Benoit Baudry and Gildas Avoine
    Journal ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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  • 2019

  • Less is More: Quantifying the Security Benefits of Debloating Web Applications

    Babak Amin Azad, Pierre Laperdrix and Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec. 2019)
    Santa Clara, CA, USA (acceptance rate: 16%)

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  • Morellian Analysis for Browsers: Making Web Authentication Stronger With Canvas Fingerprinting

    Pierre Laperdrix, Gildas Avoine, Benoit Baudry and Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2019)
    Gothenburg, Sweden (acceptance rate: 29%)

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  • Unnecessarily Identifiable: Quantifying the fingerprintability of browser extensions due to bloat

    Oleksii Starov, Pierre Laperdrix, Alexandros Kapravelos and Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 2019 edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2019)
    San Fransisco, CA, USA (acceptance rate: 20%)

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  • Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: A Longitudinal Analysis of Security-Mechanism Support in Mobile Browsers

    Meng Luo, Pierre Laperdrix, Nima Honarmand, Nick Nikiforakis
    Proceedings of the 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019)
    San Diego, CA, USA (acceptance rate: 17%)

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  • 2018

  • FP-Scanner: The Privacy Implications of Browser Fingerprint Inconsistencies

    Antoine Vastel, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy
    Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec. 2018)
    Baltimore, MD, USA (acceptance rate: 19%)

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  • FP-STALKER: Tracking Browser Fingerprint Evolutions

    Antoine Vastel, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy
    Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2018)
    San Francisco, CA, USA (acceptance rate: 11%)

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  • Hiding in the Crowd: an Analysis of the Effectiveness of Browser Fingerprinting at Large Scale

    Alejandro Gómez-Boix, Pierre Laperdrix, Benoit Baudry
    Proceedings of the 2018 edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2018)
    Lyon, France (acceptance rate: 15%)

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  • 2017

  • FPRandom: Randomizing core browser objects to break advanced device fingerprinting techniques

    Pierre Laperdrix, Benoit Baudry, Vikas Mishra
    Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2017)
    Bonn, Germany (acceptance rate: 37%)

    - Distinguished Artifact Award
    - Similar defense technique added in the Brave browser Brave blog Inria blog
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  • 2016

  • Beauty and the Beast: Diverting modern web browsers to build unique browser fingerprints

    Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Benoit Baudry
    Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2016)
    San Jose, CA, USA (acceptance rate: 13%)

    - 2018 CNIL-Inria European Privacy Protection Award
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  • 2015

  • Mitigating browser fingerprint tracking: multi-level reconfiguration and diversification

    Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Benoit Baudry
    Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2015)
    Florence, Italy (acceptance rate: 29%)

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PhD Thesis

  • Browser Fingerprinting: Exploring Device Diversity to Augment Authentication and Build Client-Side Countermeasures

    Pierre Laperdrix
    Defense in October 2017
    - Honorable mention for the 2018 Gilles Kahn PhD thesis award
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