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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 08:44:52 PDT

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    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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