The book “Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks”, by Levente Buttyan and Jean-Pierre Hubaux, is available for free download (until it is published by Cambridge University Press). Also available are the PPT slides and the PDF files accompaining the book. As the authors say: “To summarize, our purpose is to avoid that ubiquitous computing becomes a pervasive nightmare.”
The book’s website is http://secowinet.epfl.ch/.
From clit2.net:
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Although it’s not yet small enough to be suitable for widespread deployment, Shannon Spanhake’s pollution monitor is already generating a lot of interest. Calit2 engineer Don Kimball and his circuits lab colleagues constructed the prototype for sampling and transmitting the pollution data. As conceived by Spanhake, the device - dubbed “Squirrel” - is more than an exercise in shrinking a battery, sensor-on-a-chip and Bluetooth transmitter into something small enough to clasp to a belt or purse, and creating a software database and program to show current carbon-monoxide readings on the cell-phone display.
The wireless carbon-monoxide sensor sends data via Bluetooth to the cell phone, which displays current data on its screen and communicates the pollution levels to a master database.
