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Digital Living 2010: Sensors, Privacy, and Trust

Digital Living 2010: Sensors, Privacy, and Trust. David Kotz September 2005. Digital Living 2005. Today’s user can barely keep their home computer secure from spam, spyware, viruses, phishing, … let alone properly protect personal data on the PC and increasingly pervasive devices. Internet.

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Digital Living 2010: Sensors, Privacy, and Trust

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  1. Digital Living 2010: Sensors, Privacy, and Trust David Kotz September 2005

  2. Digital Living 2005 Today’s user can barely keep their home computer secure from spam, spyware, viruses, phishing, … let alone properly protect personal data on the PC and increasingly pervasive devices. Internet Home computer User PDA Cell phone

  3. Digital Living 2010 Tomorrow’s users will be surrounded by pervasive devices, embedded sensors and systems… all connected to the Internet. User Communications Games Photography User Inventory/sales tracking Banking and commerce Entertainment systems Health/medical User Home computer Surveillance and security at home, work, or in public Home appliances PDA Car telephone building automation User

  4. DL2010: Challenges • How will users cope in 2010? …manage security of their systems? …manage privacy of their information? …make informed trust decisions? • How do we design usable pervasive systems that support users’ security and respect users’ privacy?

  5. Research Challenges • Can normal users cope? • Easy configuration, management, and maintenance. • What trade-offs will they make? Convenience vs. privacy. • What interfaces allow them to control these trade-offs? • Can you trust the system? • Secure sensing and aggregation of sensitive information. • To produce valid results, or indicate when results are uncertain? • Detect or resist attacks to discover secrets or disrupt service? • Imagine malicious insider, with access to a trusted device? • What role do organizations play? • Schools, employers, landlords, governments: differing interests. • Yet people work at home, and do personal things at work. • Long-term embedded devices last a decade or more • System evolution with heterogeneous systems and old devices • The ultimate in homeland security • DoS on your home infrastructure: no more heat? • Spyware exposes the most intimate details of your home life

  6. Interdisciplinary problem • Computer Science • Engineering • Sociology • Psychology • Ethics and law • Economics and business

  7. Thank you Key message: how can we help the average person cope with the coming digitally mediated lifestyle, yet maintaining privacy of their information and making informed trust decisions? www.ists.dartmouth.edu

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