Identifying Insecure Applications to Keep Private Data Private

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Users expect networked applications (such as on-line shopping sites) to treat their private data responsibly and to protect it, but the truth is that many applications actually have leaks that allow private data to escape. To address this concern, and give end-users some control, researchers at Intel Research Seattle are developing a tool, "Privacy Scope," which runs along with a browser, detecting leaky systems and warning the user before they actually submit their private information. For more information see Intel Seattle Research Trustworthy Wireless research project and Trustworthy Wireless blog.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/innov...on.htm#070709a

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That's really cool, Thankful -- the article links lead to the following:

>> In this same Trustworthy Wireless area, Anmol Sheth discussed his research project called GeoFencing. Instead of using password protected wireless networks, GeoFencing confines the wireless radio transmissions at the physical layer to a user specified region - like your apartment or coffee shop. Using overlapping transmissions from distributed beamforming antennas the wireless signal only works at the intersection of these beams. Geo-fencing can adapt to regions of varying shapes and sizes.

[emphasis added] ref: Trustworthy wireless research