https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.15794/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298612urn:hackerpapers:mention:2006.15794:26298612Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:51:35 GMT<p>This is basically a mechanism that would allow for a honeytrap on steroids. https://blog.finjan.com/honeytokens-used-to-track-cybercrimi... &gt; that would require keeping track of bogus submissions You don&#x27;t have to keep track of the submissions because you can generate them with a reversible algorithm. Basically use a word list method https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi... but have the list be entirely people&#x27;s names (or generated from a corpus of known accounts and something like https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn to make them harder to spot) &gt; generating new…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.15794/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23728727urn:hackerpapers:mention:2006.15794:23728727Fri, 03 Jul 2020 23:55:32 GMT<p>Hello everyone, Lead author of the paper here. I am encouraged to see such insightful discussion on our work. Excited to discuss and address any questions/concerns that you anyone may have. A preprint of our full paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.15794.pdf. We are also publicly sharing a disclosure page (https://github.com/shehrozef/canarytrap). This page contains details of third-party apps which are detected as misusing user data or violating Facebook&#x27;s TOS in our work.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.15794/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23724909urn:hackerpapers:mention:2006.15794:23724909Fri, 03 Jul 2020 15:38:16 GMT<p>The research paper[1] contains a list of the 16 apps on page 11. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.15794.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.15794/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23723786urn:hackerpapers:submission:2006.15794:23723786Fri, 03 Jul 2020 13:25:27 GMT<p>CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks</p><p></p><p>83 points; 22 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.15794/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CY