Defending against an Internet-based attack on the physical world

Authors:
Simon Byers;Aviel D. Rubin;David Kormann
Affiliations:
AT&T Labs -- Research, Florham Park, New Jersey;Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;AT&T Labs -- Research, Florham Park, New Jersey
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
Year:
2002

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Abstract

We discuss the dangers that scalable Internet functionality may present to the real world, focusing on a simple yet impactful 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 information that users must reveal to obtain Web services.