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Authenticating ubiquitous services: a study of wireless hotspot access
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Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing table of contents
Orlando, Florida, USA
SESSION: Security & access table of contents
Pages: 115-124  
Year of Publication: 2009
ISBN:978-1-60558-431-7
Authors
Tim Kindberg  HP Labs, Bristol, United Kingdom
Chris Bevan  University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Eamonn O'Neill  University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
James Mitchell  University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Jim Grimmett  University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Dawn Woodgate  University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Sponsors
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGMOBILE: ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

This paper concerns the problem of phishing attacks in ubiquitous computing environments. The embedding of ubiquitous services into our everyday environments may make fake services seem plausible but it also enables us to authenticate them with respect to those environments. We propose physical and virtual linkage as two types of authenticating evidence in ubiquitous environments and two protocols based on them. We describe an experiment to test hypotheses concerning user responses to physical and virtual linkage with respect to fake Wi-Fi hotspots. Based on our experience we derive an improved protocol for authenticating spontaneously accessed ubiquitous services.


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Collaborative Colleagues:
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Chris Bevan: colleagues
Eamonn O'Neill: colleagues
James Mitchell: colleagues
Jim Grimmett: colleagues
Dawn Woodgate: colleagues