News Finding: That makes it at least theoretically easier for your Internet Service Provider, a nation-state-hacker, or even just someone on a shared Wi-Fi network to observe all of those interactions.
Paper Finding: The development of a sustainable Internet-scanning service for security researchers would allow for further research into the shortcomings that still exist within the HTTPS protocol in its current form.
News Context: Including, it turns out, Apple's iTunes and iOS App Store infrastructure, which runs its downloads over unencrypted connections. That makes it at least theoretically easier for your Internet Service Provider, a nation-state-hacker, or even just someone on a shared Wi-Fi network to observe all of those interactions. The researchers worry that attackers could use the DSIDs to track someone's media habits, or the apps they use.
Paper Context: This exists in diverse formats, but the presentation of a unified system would fulfill the call issued by Jeff Hodges and Andy Steingruebl for a web security policy framework , but with a particularly mobile lean. The development of a sustainable Internet-scanning service for security researchers would allow for further research into the shortcomings that still exist within the HTTPS protocol in its current form. This tool would be available to researchers, commercial entities, and security organizations in order to find holes to patch.