Defending against an Internet-based attack on the physical world

  • Authors:
  • Simon Byers;Aviel D. Rubin;David Kormann

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ;Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We discuss the dangers that scalable Internet functionality may present to the real world, focusing upon an attack that is simple, yet can have great impact, which 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.