Alexandra Lux

• Magister
• Research Assistant & Project Coordination at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich

The use of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to protect online privacy is a promising preventive measure. However, many users lack knowledge of their existence and application. This study reports the results of a pre-registered longitudinal experiment aimed at encouraging Internet users to install and use Tor, which enables anonymous browsing....

The darknet terminology is not used consistently among scientific research papers. This can lead to difficulties in regards to the applicability and the significance of the results and also facilitates misinterpretation of them. As a consequence, comparisons of the different works are complicated. In this paper, we conduct a review of previous dark...

Descriptives of the darknet, and in particular of the Tor network, appear inconsistent and implausible in nature. In order to gain insight into how these conflicting results are produced, the goal of this study is to review previous research on the matter with regard to terminology used, methodology of sample collection and the analysis of the data...

Zusammenfassung Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Erstellung einer Anonymitätsmatrix. Der Fokus liegt hierbei insbesondere in der Verbindung der technischen und psychologischen Komponenten der Betrachtung. Ausgangssituation ist die Verwendung einer Privacy Enhancing Technology, konkret dem Tor-Browser. So ist das Ziel, die Tor-Nutzergruppe in Be...