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Blue Skies from (X?s) Pain: A Digital Forensic Analysis of Threads and Bluesky

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive digital forensic analysis of the social media platforms Threads and Bluesky, juxtaposing their unique architectures and functionalities against X. This research fills a gap in the extant literature by offering a novel forensic analysis of Threads and Bluesky, based on established techniques. Mobile forensic analysis of both platforms yielded few results. Network analysis produced a variety of artifacts for Bluesky, including plaintext passwords. Threads proved to be robust, and a presentation of its security and API flow is presented. A detailed depiction of the forensic analysis performed for this paper is presented to aid future investigators.

Source: International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)

DOI: 10.1145/3664476.3670904

Authors: Joseph Brown, Abdur Rahman Onik, Ibrahim Baggili

Institution: Louisiana State University

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Cyber Forensics

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4400978062

FWCI: 3.417

Cites: 16

Cited by: 14

Related to: 10