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MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems
In this work, we study the security of public WLAN-based positioning systems. Specifically, we investigate the Skyhook positioning system, available on PCs and used on a number of...
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Chri...
ADVCS
2008
140views more  ADVCS 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Reputation for Innovating Social Networks
Reputation is a fundamental instrument of partner selection. Developed within the domain of electronic auctions, reputation technology is being been imported into other applicatio...
Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci, Jordi Sabater-Mir
DIMVA
2008
15 years 7 months ago
VeriKey: A Dynamic Certificate Verification System for Public Key Exchanges
Abstract. This paper presents a novel framework to substantiate selfsigned certificates in the absence of a trusted certificate authority. In particular, we aim to address the prob...
Brett Stone-Gross, David Sigal, Rob Cohn, John Mor...
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A control point for reducing root abuse of file-system privileges
We address the problem of restricting root’s ability to change arbitrary files on disk, in order to prevent abuse on most current desktop operating systems. The approach first...
Glenn Wurster, Paul C. van Oorschot
PET
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Formal Privacy System and Its Application to Location Based Services
There are a variety of well-known models for access control developed for purposes like formally modeling the access rights on files, databases, and web resources. However, the ex...
Carl A. Gunter, Michael J. May, Stuart G. Stubbleb...