On the challenges of building a web-based ubiquitous application platform
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Application architectures for smart multi-device applications
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-device App Middleware
Model-driven architectural risk analysis using architectural and contextualised attack patterns
Proceedings of the Workshop on Model-Driven Security
Extending the web to support personal network services
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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Web browsers are a common platform for delivering cross-platform applications. However, they currently fail to provide consistent access control for security and privacy sensitive JavaScript APIs, such as geolocation and local storage. This problem is exacerbated by new HTML5 APIs and the increasing number of personal devices people own and use. In this paper we present the webinos platform which aims to provide a single, cross-device policy system for web applications on a wide range of web-enabled devices including TVs, smartphones, in-car systems and PCs. webinos solves the existing deficiencies in web authorisation by introducing the concept of a personal zone, the set of all devices and services owned by a particular user. All devices in this zone can synchronize their access control policies through interoperable middleware and can create flexible rules which may refer to an individual user, device or the entire zone. We provide details of the architecture and explain how our experience during design highlighted several conceptual challenges.