Can Ferris Bueller still have his day off? Protecting privacy in the wireless era Export

@inproceedings{greenstein:ferris, abstract = {Today's rich and varied wireless environment, including mobile phones, Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, and Bluetooth headsets, poses threats to our privacy that cannot be addressed with existing protocols. By considering 802.11 as a case study and analyzing publicly available 802.11 traces, we show that a device can be identified and tracked over time through its persistent link-layer address, list of known networks (SSIDs), and other protocol and physical layer characteristics. We argue that it is in the best interest of providers as well as users to design systems that maintain user privacy. We identify several research challenges to doing so and offer some direction towards a solution.}, address = {Berkeley, CA, USA}, author = {Greenstein, Ben and Gummadi, Ramakrishna and Pang, Jeffrey and Chen, Mike Y. and Kohno, Tadayoshi and Seshan, Srinivasan and Wetherall, David}, booktitle = {HOTOS'07: Proceedings of the 11th USENIX workshop on Hot topics in operating systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4850749}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1361407}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1361407}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://enl.usc.edu/papers/cache/Greenstein07.pdf}, keywords = {mobile, privacy, security, wireless}, location = {San Diego, CA, USA}, month = {May}, pages = {1--6}, posted-at = {2009-07-15 21:49:47}, priority = {2}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, title = {Can {Ferris Bueller} still have his day off? Protecting privacy in the wireless era}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1361407}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - greenstein:ferris L3 - citeulike-article-id:4850749 N2 - Today's rich and varied wireless environment, including mobile phones, Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, and Bluetooth headsets, poses threats to our privacy that cannot be addressed with existing protocols. By considering 802.11 as a case study and analyzing publicly available 802.11 traces, we show that a device can be identified and tracked over time through its persistent link-layer address, list of known networks (SSIDs), and other protocol and physical layer characteristics. We argue that it is in the best interest of providers as well as users to design systems that maintain user privacy. We identify several research challenges to doing so and offer some direction towards a solution. CY - San Diego, CA, USA AD - Berkeley, CA, USA EP - 6 TI - Can {Ferris Bueller} still have his day off? Protecting privacy in the wireless era PB - USENIX Association T2 - HOTOS'07: Proceedings of the 11th USENIX workshop on Hot topics in operating systems SP - 1 KW - mobile KW - privacy KW - security KW - wireless AU - Greenstein, Ben AU - Gummadi, Ramakrishna AU - Pang, Jeffrey AU - Chen, Mike AU - Kohno, Tadayoshi AU - Seshan, Srinivasan AU - Wetherall, David PY - 2007/May// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1361407 ER -