Mona Wang is a researcher working to protect the privacy, security, and digital freedoms on the internet.
She is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton’s Center for IT Policy advised by Jonathan Mayer and Prateek Mittal. She was previously a research fellow at the Citizen Lab and staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her work was recognized by the numerous awards she received, including the FOCI Rising Star Award, the OTF Information Controls Fellowship, the ACM CSCW Impact Recognition Award, and the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize.
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Measuring the Security of Proprietary Network Encryption in the Global Android Ecosystem
New paper co-authored by researchers at the Citizen Lab and Princeton University explores the network security of Android apps.
Network Security Issues in RedNote
Our network security analysis of the popular social media app, RedNote, revealed a number of issues with both the Android and iOS versions of the app.
Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat’s MMTLS Encryption Protocol
This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications have introduced cryptographic weaknesses.
