FC: New paper: "Internet-based attacks on the physical world"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.avirubin.com/scripted.attacks.pdf

Defending Against an Internet-based Attack on the Physical World

By Simon Byers
Aviel D. Rubin
David Kormann

ABSTRACT
We discuss the dangers that scalable Internet functionality
may present to the real world, focusing on a simple yet im-
pactful attack that we believe may occur quite soon. We
offer and critique various solutions to this class of attack
and hope to provide a warning to the Internet community
of what is currently possible. The attack is, to some degree,
a consequence of the availability of private information on
the Web, and the increase in the amount of personal infor-
mation that users must reveal to obtain Web services.




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