Challenges in inferring privacy properties of smart devices: Towards scalable multi-vantage point testing methods

Aniketh Girish, Vijay Prakash, Serge Egelman, Joel Reardon, Juan Tapiador, Danny Yuxing Huang, Srdjan Matic, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez

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Abstract

The growth of the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the home has introduced unprecedented challenges for preserving consumers' privacy. To enhance the transparency and trustworthiness of IoT products, industry actors, regulators and standardization bodies have proposed several certifications processes. While previous research developed methodologies to expose a wide range of harmful behaviors in smart home devices, the research community has not yet produced scalable methods to exhaustively detect information leakage in heterogeneous environments so that they can be effectively used for independent certification processes. Research questions such as to what extent is it possible to automatically and independently validate high-level privacy properties and can we evaluate the correctness of privacy controls in a smart home by analyzing the home traffic? remain open. This paper explores and discusses open research challenges in this complex domain and sketches a roadmap to build scalable methods for smart home privacy testing.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCoNEXT-SW 2022 - Proceedings of the International CoNEXT Student Workshop 2022, Part CoNEXT 2022
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages26-28
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450399371
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 9 2022
Event3rd ACM International CoNEXT Student Workshop, CoNEXT-SW 2022, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2022 - Rome, Italy
Duration: Dec 9 2022 → …

Publication series

NameCoNEXT-SW 2022 - Proceedings of the International CoNEXT Student Workshop 2022, Part CoNEXT 2022

Conference

Conference3rd ACM International CoNEXT Student Workshop, CoNEXT-SW 2022, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period12/9/22 → …

Keywords

  • IoT
  • measurement techniques
  • privacy
  • testing strategies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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