ETIP - εxodus tracker investigation platform

ETIP is meant to ease investigations on tracker detection. For the moment, it offers few features:

• track all modifications on trackers
• detect rules collisions for both network and code signature

Contribute to the identification of trackers

If you wish to help us identify new trackers, you can request an ETIP account by sending a username and an email address to [email protected]

You can also take a look at to the following repositories:

• https://github.com/YalePrivacyLab/tracker-profiles
• https://github.com/jawz101/potentialTrackers

Contributing to ETIP development

If you want to contribute to this project, you can refer to this documentation.

API

An API is available to help administrate the ETIP database.

Authenticate

POST /api/get-auth-token/

Example:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/get-auth-token/ --data "username=admin&password=testtest"

You need to include your token as an Authorization header in all subsequent requests.

Get trackers

GET /api/trackers/

Example:

curl -X GET http://localhost:8000/api/trackers/ -H 'Authorization: Token <your-token>'

Development environment

Installation

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/Exodus-Privacy/etip.git

Create the Python virtual env

cd etip
virtualenv venv -p python3
source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create the database

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=etip.settings.dev
cd etip/
python manage.py migrate

# Import tracker definitions from the official instance of εxodus
python manage.py import_trackers

# Import predefined tracker categories
python manage.py import_categories

Create admin user

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the tests

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=etip.settings.dev
python manage.py test

Start the server

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=etip.settings.dev
python manage.py runserver

Useful commands

Some admin commands are available to help administrate the ETIP database.

Compare with Exodus

This command retrieves trackers data from an εxodus instance and looks for differences with trackers in the local database.

python manage.py compare_with_exodus

Note: for now, it only compares with local trackers having the flag is_in_exodus.

The default εxodus instance queried is the public one available at https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org (see --exodus-hostname parameter).