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Citation
Jun Han, Abhishek Jain, Mark Luk, Adrian Perrig. "Don't Sweat Your Privacy: Using Humidity to Detect Human Presence". Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Privacy in UbiComp (UbiPriv'07), September, 2007.

Abstract
Sensor nodes are increasingly deployed in many environments. Most of these nodes feature onboard sensor chips to measure environmental data such as humidity, temperature and light. In this paper, we show that seemingly innocuous and non-sensitive data such as humidity measurements can disclose private information such as human presence. We conduct several experiments using Telos motes running TinyOS to justify our claims. research to investigate mechanisms to prevent the leakage of private information.

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  >Don't Sweat Your Privacy: Using Humidity to Detect Human
  Presence</a>, Proceedings of 5th International
  Workshop on Privacy in UbiComp (UbiPriv'07), September, 2007.

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  Jun Han, Abhishek Jain, Mark Luk, Adrian Perrig. "Don't
  Sweat Your Privacy: Using Humidity to Detect Human
  Presence". Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on
  Privacy in UbiComp (UbiPriv'07), September, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{HanJainLukPerrig07_DontSweatYourPrivacyUsingHumidityToDetectHumanPresence,
      author = {Jun Han and Abhishek Jain and Mark Luk and Adrian
                Perrig},
      title = {Don't Sweat Your Privacy: Using Humidity to Detect
                Human Presence},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on
                Privacy in UbiComp (UbiPriv'07)},
      month = {September},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Sensor nodes are increasingly deployed in many
                environments. Most of these nodes feature onboard
                sensor chips to measure environmental data such as
                humidity, temperature and light. In this paper, we
                show that seemingly innocuous and non-sensitive
                data such as humidity measurements can disclose
                private information such as human presence. We
                conduct several experiments using Telos motes
                running TinyOS to justify our claims. research to
                investigate mechanisms to prevent the leakage of
                private information.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/285.html}
  }
  

Posted by Adrian Perrig on 10 Sep 2007.
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