Televisions, video privacy, and powerline electromagnetic interference

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 537-550

  Enev, Miro ^a   Gupta, Sidhant ^a   Kohno, Tadayoshi ^a   Patel, Shwetak N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference; Information leakage; Powerline security

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DEVICE; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; POWER LINES; POWER SUPPLY; TV MODELS; VIDEO CONTENTS;

COMPUTER PRIVACY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 80755169467     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046707.2046770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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