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The conventional approach for building pervasive environments relies on middleware to integrate different systems. Instead, we have built a system that can deal with these environments by exporting system resources through distributed virtual file systems. This requires no middleware, simplifies interoperation, and permits applying general purpose tools to any system resource. A constraint-based file...
RFID systems as a whole are often treated with suspicion, but the input data received from individual RFID tags is implicitly trusted. RFID attacks are currently conceived as properly formatted but fake RFID data; however no one expects an RFID tag to send a SQL injection attack or a buffer overflow. This paper is meant to serve as a warning that data from RFID tags can be used to exploit back-end...
As consumer electronic devices become more powerful and networked, users are required to understand more and more `complex' device functionalities just to carry out simplest tasks. Users are experiencing more and more inconvenience and frustration as the number and complexity of home devices rise and the amount of content/data stored in the home increases. To address these problems, we have developed...
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