From: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:03:12 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: POC_ket
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961118164214.006e9e00@pop.pipeline.com>
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jya@pipeline.com (John Young) writes:

> 
> WaJo reports today on IBM's tiny pocket computer that
> transmits data through the body -- to another body or to
> a device such as a telephone. Invented by Tom Zimmerman,
> formerly of the Media Lab, it can tell "anything you touch
> who you are." Being shown at Comdex.
> 
> The body as a token. How to crack a human? Grab and 
> squeeze out a pass phrase.


this particular paragraph certainly brought some ideas to my head: 

	Among other uses, Mr. Zimmerman says his setup could create
	a "personal area network" over one's body to link the
	various electronic devices a person carries. For instance,
	it could allow a pager attached to one's belt to transmit
	a phone number it receives to a cellular phone carried in
	a pocket. The researcher even imagines a version of the
	small computers that could be built into shoes, with the
	electricity to power them being generated by a person's
	steps.

talk about an opportunity for sniffing data off someone or just
pouring your data own into their 'personal network'.  this is the
'denial of existence' attack - the computer cannot talk to you - you
don't exist...

- -pjf
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