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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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