[atlarge-discuss] Re: FC: New paper: "Internet-based attacks on the physical world"

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Declan and all,

  Thank you for pointing this excellent information out Declan.
I hope many shall read it carefully and completely.

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> 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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