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  <body><![CDATA[<p><strong>Title</strong><em>:&nbsp; Extracting Hidden, Protected, and Deleted User Interaction Contexts from Applications and AI Systems</em></p><p><strong>Committee:</strong></p><p>Dr.&nbsp;Brendan Saltaformaggio, ECE, Chair, Advisor</p><p>Dr.&nbsp;Saman Zonouz, ECE</p><p>Dr.&nbsp;Michael Specter, CoC</p><p>Dr.&nbsp;Frank Li</p><p>Dr.&nbsp;Ozgur Ozmen, ASU</p>]]></body>
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      <value><![CDATA[<p>In this dissertation, I make hidden, protected, and deleted interaction context measurable and actionable by extracting it from real software stacks. In DVa, I uncover victim apps and attribute victim-specific a11y abuse vectors by combining victim modeling with abuse-vector-guided symbolic analysis on real malware. In SOMBRA, I identify where app-side a11y protections fail to transfer to mobile websites by modeling and comparing the a11y information exposed by native apps and by browser-rendered counterparts across four different browsers. In ORISA, I recover and rehost deleted conversation context from local LLM apps by extracting and realigning batch tokens and KV cache state so investigators can interrogate a live session with recovered context.</p>]]></value>
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