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Ubiquitous Web: Boon or Bane ?

Ubiquitous Web: Boon or Bane ?. - ANKIT MALHOTRA. Ubiquitous Web. Ubiquitous means ‘omnipresent’ Everyday objects embedded with processors Collaboration and connectivity World Wide Web as the glue. Web’s Role. Web browser and applications as chief information collectors

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Ubiquitous Web: Boon or Bane ?

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  1. Ubiquitous Web:Boon or Bane ? - ANKIT MALHOTRA

  2. Ubiquitous Web • Ubiquitous means ‘omnipresent’ • Everyday objects embedded with processors • Collaboration and connectivity • World Wide Web as the glue

  3. Web’s Role • Web browser and applications as chief information collectors • Context: Natural, Technical and Social • Discovery • Binding • Device Co-ordination

  4. Impacts – Privacy • Existing web is not efficient at privacy preservation • A database in every device one can think of • Shrinking form factor • Everything recorded

  5. Privacy Guidelines • Openness in policy • Platform for Privacy Preserving Preferences • Pseudonymity • Locality

  6. More mechanisms • Trusted middleware and anonymizing proxy • Mixed Zones – Special dummy mixed nodes • Tradeoff between application and privacy • Trust

  7. Security • Wireless data also ubiquitous • Power constraints = Encryption constraints • Radio frequency jamming • Sleep Deprivation torture • Digital Signatures expensive - physical control

  8. Security Ideas • Biometrics • Secure transient association – One master • Leave application open to change in technique • Any ideas ?

  9. Summing Up • Unnecessary, means for capitalist control, privacy invasion? • Super cool, super elegant and the way ahead? • My opinion – Inevitable ! • Improve mechanisms to make it more secure

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