Gnomedex 8.0 - Yoshi Kohno and Gabriel Maganis - Adeona

Private, Open Source Device Tracking
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu, named after the Roman goddess for safe return.

Computer security is the study of how to design and build systems that behave as intended in the presence of malicious third parties.

- security issues can affect any aspect of technology
- security is unintuitive, which makes it challenging (for consumers and innovators.)


Yoshi gives a long explanation of why we want this before he talks about.

Private companies do this, but the information could compromise privacy. EZ pass information has been used in divorce cases (that's the thing that lets you fly by toll booths.)