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Title: Noncompliance as Deviant Behavior: An Automated Black-box Noncompliance Checker for 4G LTE Cellular Devices
Award ID(s):
2112471
PAR ID:
10315972
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’21)
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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