Curriculum Vitæ

Peer-Reviewed Conference/Journal Publications

  1. Is Nobody There? Good! Globally Measuring Connection Tampering without Responsive Endhosts, Sadia Nourin, Erik Rye, Kevin Bock, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Dave Levin. IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P), 2025. (To appear)
  2. Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems, Erik Rye, Dave Levin, IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P), 2024.
  3. IPv6 Hitlists at Scale: Be Careful What You Wish For, Erik Rye, Dave Levin, ACM SIGCOMM, 2023.
  4. IPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023.
  5. Who Tracks the Trackers? Circumventing Apple’s Anti-Tracking Alerts in the Find My Network, Travis Mayberry, Ellis Fenske, Dane Brown, Jeremy Martin, Christine Fossaceca, Erik Rye, Sam Teplov, Lucas Foppe, Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2021.
  6. Follow the Scent: Defeating IPv6 Prefix Rotation Privacy, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, kc claffy, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2021. Best Paper Award
  7. Three Years Later: A Study of MAC Address Randomization In Mobile Devices And When It Succeeds, Ellis Fenske, Dane Brown, Jeremy Martin, Travis Mayberry, Peter Ryan, Erik Rye, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), 2021.
  8. Reading In-Between the Lines: An Analysis of Dissenter, Erik Rye, Jeremy Blackburn, Robert Beverly, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020.
  9. Discovering the IPv6 Network Periphery, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM), 2020.
  10. Handoff All Your Privacy – A Review of Apple’s Bluetooth Low Energy Continuity Protocol, Jeremy Martin, Douglas Alpuche, Kristina Bodeman, Lamont Brown, Ellis Fenske, Lucas Foppe, Travis Mayberry, Erik Rye, Brandon Sipes, Sam Teplov, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), 2019.
  11. Sundials in the Shade: An Internet-Wide Perspective on ICMP Timestamps, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM), 2019.
  12. EUI-64 Considered Harmful, Erik Rye, Jeremy Martin, Robert Beverly, Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS2), 2019.
  13. Exploiting TLS Client Authentication for Widespread User Tracking, Lucas Foppe, Jeremy Martin, Travis Mayberry, Erik Rye, Lamont Brown, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), 2018.
  14. A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails, Jeremy Martin, Travis Mayberry, Collin Donahue, Lucas Foppe, Lamont Brown, Chadwick Riggins, Erik Rye, Dane Brown, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), 2017.
  15. Decomposition of MAC Address Structure for Granular Device Inference, Jeremy Martin, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2016.
  16. Revisiting AS-Level Graph Reduction Erik Rye, Justin P Rohrer, Robert Beverly, IEEE Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom) Workshop, 2016.
  17. The Marginal Benefit of Monitor Placement on Networks, Benjamin Davis, Ralucca Gera, Gary Lazzaro, Bing Yong Lim, Erik Rye, Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet), 2016.
  18. The Neighbor Matrix: Generalizing A Graph’s Degree Sequence Jonathan Roginski, Ralucca Gera, Erik Rye, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 2015.

Peer-Reviewed Jokes

  1. RFC 8567 – Customer Management DNS Resource Records, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, 2019.

Technical Reports

  1. Visualizing MAC and IPv6 Address Allocations, Erik Rye, 2023.
  2. SDN as Active Measurement Infrastructure, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, 2017.
  3. Graph Reduction for Emulated Network Experimentation, Erik Rye, Justin P Rohrer, 2015.

Talks

  1. Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi Positioning Systems. Black Hat USA. 2024.
  2. IPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation. Institute for Defense Analyses Cybersecurity Developmental Test Cross-Service Working Group (CyberDT XSWG). 2022.
  3. IPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation. Black Hat USA. 2021. With Robert Beverly
  4. Toxicity in Two Online Platforms: Dissenter and GitHub. Sonoma State University. 2021. With Robert Beverly
  5. SDN as Active Measurement Infrastructure. Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) Active Internet Measurements Workshop (AIMS). 2017.
  6. Emulated Router Inference Kit. Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) Active Internet Measurements Workshop (AIMS). 2015.
  7. Evaluating Structural Disruption in Adaptive Networks. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). 2014. With Jon Roginksi

Popular Media Coverage

  1. Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag Brian Krebs, Krebs on Security, 2024
  2. How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe Thomas Claburn, The Register, 2024.
  3. Is Your Crummy Router Giving Away Your Location? Max Eddy, PC Mag, 2021.
  4. Your Wi-Fi Router Could Tell Everyone Where You Live — Here’s What You Can Do About It Paul Wagenseil, Tom’s Guide, 2021.

Blog Posts

  1. Defeating IPv6 Prefix Rotation Privacy, Erik Rye, APNIC Blog, 2022.
  2. Measuring the IPv6 Network Periphery, Erik Rye, APNIC Blog, 2020.

Podcasts

  1. How Wi-Fi Positioning Systems Enable Mass Surveillance, Erik Rye, Dave Levin, Packet Protector, 2024.

Service

  1. Program Committee, Internet Measurement Conference. 2025.
  2. Program Committee, Internet Measurement Conference. 2024.
  3. Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Networking. 2020.
  4. Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters. 2020.

Patents

  1. Discovering and Clustering IPv6 Addresses by Hardware Identifiers, US12021829B2