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Security for Whom? The Shifting Security Assumptions of Pervasive Computing

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Pervasive computing will introduce hundreds of computing devices per user. This change is of such magnitude that it is qualitative as well as quantitative. Old solutions may not scale when the size of the problem grows by such a factor—passwords, for example, will no longer be a suitable user authentication method.

In this paper we examine new security issues for pervasive computing including authentication, biometrics and digital rights management. But the potential impact of pervasive computing on society is such that we have a responsibility to look further than just the technical issues.

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    Frank Stajano

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  1. Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minatoku, 108-8345, Tokyo, Japan

    Mitsuhiro Okada

  2. University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd St., 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Benjamin C. Pierce

  3. University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd St., 19104-6395, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Andre Scedrov

  4. Keio University, 5322 Endoh, 252-8520, Fujisawa, Japan

    Hideyuki Tokuda

  5. University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    Akinori Yonezawa

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Stajano, F. (2003). Security for Whom? The Shifting Security Assumptions of Pervasive Computing. In: Okada, M., Pierce, B.C., Scedrov, A., Tokuda, H., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Software Security — Theories and Systems. ISSS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2609. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36532-X_2

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