Security Theater Seminar *Spring 2012 opening*, Sun 15/Apr/2012 at 14:00 - Stop Worrying!

[Yossef Oren]

Hi All,

Please join us on the first Sunday out of passover for some fresh cookies and the following talk:

Electrical Engineering Labs Building (חשמל מעבדות), Room 146 ^{Join us virtually!}

Sunday, April 15, 2:00pm

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Mobile Systems

Abstract: Mobile phones have become the eyes and ears of the Internet by placing digital communication, computation, and sensing at the center of nearly all human activity. The next generation of Internet services promises to support applications like citizen journalism, mobile social networking, and traffic monitoring by pairing the ubiquitous sensing provided by mobile phones with the large-scale data collection and distribution capacity of the cloud.

However, due to the need for user anonymity and privacy, establishing bases for trust in these systems is difficult and remains a critical obstacle to phone-based mobile sensing. This talk will discuss two systems that address different aspects of this challenge. The first is SMILE, an encounter-based messaging service for anonymous mobile users. The second is YouProve, a partnership between a device's trustworthy hardware and system software that allows mobile clients to control the fidelity of the data they share while allowing services to verify the authenticity of the data they receive.

Speaker Bio: Landon Cox is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Duke University and a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and an IBM Faculty Award. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005. Landon's current research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and mobile computing.

Recorded at the Washington University CS Colloquium, May 19, 2011 http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/colloq/details.cgi?id=1038                                    

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