Martin Koop (geb. Stopczynski), M.Sc.
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About Me
During the last three years I was working as a researcher on my PhD topic 'User Privacy on the Web', supervised by the Technische Universität Darmstadt. With the opportunity to work and travel through Canada and Central America between 2015 – 2017, I was able to study French and Spanish as well as publish two scientific papers.
In the time from October 2011 to March 2015 I was working as a research assosiate in the SIT Research Group of Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. As an employee at Fraunhofer SIT, I was also involved in different projects within the field of IT Security and Privacy.
Before joining the research group, I was working as a student assisten in the SecUSo Research Group at CASED supporting among others the project 'Usability Analysis and Interface Improvement of the E2E Verifiable Helios Internet Voting System' supervised by Dr. Melanie Volkamer. In this position I also assisted the group of Prof. Thorsten Strufe in evaluating a user-friendly privacy interface for the online social network Facebook.
I obtained my Bachelor in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2009; the topic of my thesis was “Advanced User Interface Management to Interact with Secure Connections in Browsers”.
I graduated from the Technische Universität Darmstadt with a Master's degree in Computer Science in 2011. The topic of my thesis was “Analysis and Design of new Scenarios for Protecting Websites”, supervised by Dr. Melanie Volkamer.
Research Interests
- Privacy and Identity Management
- Awareness of Security Threats and Privacy on Websites
- Detection and Prevention of Web-Tracking and Browser-Fingerprinting
Teaching
- Introduction to IT Security (Summer 2014)
- Seminar: Security an Privacy in Information Technology (2013)
- Web Application Security & Privacy Lab (Praktikum) (2013)
- Seminar: Advances in Security and Privacy (2012)
- Seminar Security and Privacy in Information Technology (2012)
- Grundlagen der Informatik 1 - Assistant (2012)
- Seminar Advances in Security and Privacy (2011)
- Bachelor Praktikum (Dashboard in Smart Grid) (2011)
Fraunhofer SIT Projects
- Browser Tracking Protection List
- Web Tracking Report
- Web Tracker Representation Website (Track-Your-Tracker)
Awards/Talks
- E-Teaching Award: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, November 2014
- IBM Faculty Award: Security by Design Lab - IBM Academic Lab Days, Böblingen/Germany, November 2013.
- Usability Analysis and Interface Improvement of the E2E Verifiable Helios Internet Voting System, in: HCI2011 - Workshop "Health, Wealth and Identity Theft", Newcastle/UK, July 2011.
Conferences
- Reviewer: GI Sicherheit 2012, PETS 2012, CCS 2012, ESORICS 2012, ESORICS 2014
Publications
2016 |
| Disguised Chromium Browser: Robust Browser, Flash and Canvas Fingerprinting Protection |
| Peter Baumann, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Martin Stopczynski, Erik Tews In: WPES '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. Pages 37-46, October 2016. ISBN 978-1-4503-4569-9. |
| SecLab: An Innovative Approach to Learn and Understand Current Security and Privacy Issues |
| Marco Ghiglieri, Martin Stopczynski In: SIGITE '16 Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education. Pages 67-72, September 2016. ISBN 978-1-4503-4452-4. |
2014 |
| Reducing User Tracking through Automatic Web Site State Isolations |
| Martin Stopczynski, Michael Zugelder In: Springer International Publishing: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Information Security, vol. 8783, p. 309-327, October 2014. ISBN 978-3-319-13256-3. |
| Personal DLP for Facebook |
| Marco Ghiglieri, Martin Stopczynski, Michael Waidner In: IEEE: 6, Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), p. 629 - 634, March 2014. |
| Web-Tracking-Report 2014 |
| Markus Schneider, Matthias Enzmann, Martin Stopczynski no. SIT-TR-2014-01, February 2014. ISBN 978-3-8396-0700-8. |
2012 |
| Smart Home Dashboard – Das intelligente Energiemanagement |
| Martin Stopczynski, Marco Ghiglieri In: VDE KONGRESS 2012 Smart Grid, VDE Verlag GmbH, November 2012. ISBN 978-3-8007-3446-7. www.vde-verlag.de/proceedings-de/453446061.html. |
| C4PS: colors for privacy settings |
| Thomas Paul, Martin Stopczynski, Daniel Puscher, Melanie Volkamer, Thorsten Strufe In: ACM: Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web, vol. WWW '12 Companion, p. 585--586, May 2012. ISBN 978-1-4503-1230-1. doi.acm.org/10.1145/2187980.2188139. |
| C4PS - Helping Facebookers Manage Their Privacy Settings |
| Thomas Paul, Martin Stopczynski, Daniel Puscher, Melanie Volkamer, Thorsten Strufe In: Springer Berlin Heidelberg: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Social Informatics, no. 7710, p. 188-201, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-35385-7. |
Supervised Student Projects
30.10.2014
Browser Implementation and Evaluation of Comprehensive Anti-Fingerprinting Techniques
Master Thesis
finished
In dieser Arbeit soll ein Browser so modifiziert werden, das sogenanntes "Browser-Fingerprinting" nicht mehr möglich ist. Dabei ist es nicht aussreichend, dass nur der User-Agent verändert wird oder JavaScript deaktiviert wird. Mittels definierter Algorithmen und abgefangenen Inter-Process-Calls, sollen unter anderen die häufigsten Browser-Fingerprinting techniken gestoppt werden.
16.01.2014
Bachelor Thesis
finished
Es soll recherchiert und analysiert werden, in welcher Form Benutzer-Tracking auf mobilen Geräten durchgeführt wird (welche Methoden gibt es: Cookies, Web-Beacons...).
Anschließend soll analysiert werden, welche Top500 Seiten im Netz mobiles Tracking anwenden. Dazu kann ein vorhandenes System (Java-Basis) zur Tracking Analyse für das Web angepasst werden oder es muss ein neues System entwickelt werden, dass die vom Server ausgelieferten Inhalten für mobile Geräte auf Tracking untersucht.
Am Ende soll eine Statistik herauskommen die zeigt, welche Tracker mit welchen Methoden auf welchen Webseiten Tracking betreibt. Wenn möglich, wäre eine Evaluation interessant, ob es Unterschiede auf verschiedenen Browsern/Geräten gibt oder an bestimmten Tagen/Uhrzeiten andere Tracker aktiv sind.
Optional wäre auch ein Fokus auf die Entwicklung von Schutzmechanismen um Tracking zu verhindern (Adblock, Cookie-Cleaner... fürs Smartphone).
20.10.2012
Detection of Category Breaches in E-Mail Threads Using RSS Data Feeds
Bachelor Thesis
finished
30.11.2012
Approach to Detect and Prevent Browser-Fingerprinting using a Chrome Extension
Bachelor Thesis
finished
30.04.2013
Benutzerstudie zur Visualisierung von privatsphärenkritischen Nachrichten in sozialen Netzwerken
Bachelor Thesis
finished
30.04.2013
Bachelor Thesis
finished