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Citation
Mark Luk. "Don’t Sweat Your Privacy: Using Humidity to Detect Human Presence". Talk or presentation, 10, October, 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 and discuss research to investigate mechanisms to prevent the leakage of private information.

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  Mark Luk. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/297.html"
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  Humidity to Detect Human Presence</i></a>, Talk
  or presentation,  10, October, 2007.

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  Mark Luk. "Don’t Sweat Your Privacy: Using
  Humidity to Detect Human Presence". Talk or
  presentation,  10, October, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Luk07_DontSweatYourPrivacyUsingHumidityToDetectHumanPresence,
      author = {Mark Luk},
      title = {Don’t Sweat Your Privacy: Using Humidity to
                Detect Human Presence},
      day = {10},
      month = {October},
      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 and discuss
                research to investigate mechanisms to prevent the
                leakage of private information.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/297.html}
  }
  

Posted by Larry Rohrbough on 16 Oct 2007.
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