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Nov. 30th, 2006

  • 10:56 AM

UW CSE graduate students have exposed vaguely worrisome uses for a seemingly useful exercise aid (official report here).

I find it encouraging that UW HCI students are working with our new security professor. Often it seems that HCI papers present ideas that make one think "that's cool but what happens when someone tries to hack it." I am glad that we will (hopefully) end up with a bit less of this at UW than at other bases.

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[info]theslate wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2006 07:23 pm (UTC)
Sounds good to me. Allowing corperations to track our every movement allows them to take better care of us!
[info]includedmiddle wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2006 08:28 pm (UTC)
Don't forget, we'll be allowing the government and random strangers to take better care of us, too!
[info]theslate wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2006 09:33 pm (UTC)
Hooray! It's so close to the utopia where everyone takes care of each other... because they can!
[info]krizoitz wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2006 09:24 pm (UTC)
come now, there is no evidence of foul play here, it looks to me like its simply a case of the law of unintended consequences
[info]theslate wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2006 09:38 pm (UTC)
I know! How can people be so distrustful just because of potential personal privacy insecurity even though no one has exploited them yet?
[info]big_bad_al wrote:
Dec. 1st, 2006 05:09 am (UTC)
There's a very fine line between good uses of unencrypted and unauthenticated RFID tags and privacy violations. It's strange that this creeps all of us out, but the same chips, when put in library books, are innocuous enough that we embrace the change (at least at my local library; it's pretty cool how simple it is to check the books out now). It's really too bad that companies don't spring for the encrypted and authenticated RFID chips just because their patents haven't run out yet; if everyone used such secure chips, there wouldn't be problems like this.
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