Offline Finding Analysis

This Jupyter notebook contains a quantitative analysis of location reports from Apple's offline finding (OF) location tracking system. The results are part of our paper Who Can Find My Devices? A Security and Privacy Analysis of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System.

Execute

Use Binder to execute the notebook. Alternative, you can locally execute the notebook.

Setup environment. We create and activate a dedicated virtual environment.

make venv
source venv/bin/activate

Start. Install all dependencies and start the main Jupyter notebook.

make

Reproduce figures for our paper

Reproduce the figures in our paper by running (runs the notebook with the LATEX variable set to True, figures will be available in plots folder):

make run

Data and Data Format

Please refer to README in the data folder.

Authors

• Alexander Heinrich (email)
• Milan Stute (email)

License

The code and data in this repository are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.