Cybercrime issues in a future IT environment

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Cybercrime issues in a future IT
environment Ambient Intelligence - AmI
JRC Workshop on Cybercrime. Sevilla, 12 january
2001
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Institutional context of the AmI task

• DG INFSO
• ISTAG, the Information Society Technologies
  Advisory Group
• ICT / LS Unit
• Experts groups from industry, academics, design,
  etc.

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ISTAGs request

• Develop a longer term vision of the challenges
  and opportunities for sustained global
  competitiveness of the European IST industry
  circa 2010
• On the basis of its Ambient Intelligence Vision
  Statement
• Start creating an ambient intelligence landscape
  (for seamless delivery of services and
  applications) in Europe relying also upon
  test-beds and open source software, develop
  user-friendliness, and develop and converge the
  networking infrastructure in Europe to
  world-class.
• Interim reports as input to programme priorities
  definition (FP5)
• Direct input to specific programme definition
  (FP6)

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Ambient Intelligence visions

• Ambient Intelligence Ubiquitous computing,
  ubiquitous communication, intelligent user
  friendly interfaces
• Ambient Intelligence ubiquity, transparency,
  intelligence (sensing, processing, taking
  decisions,..)
• Access to large-scale information resources and
  to high-capacity information-processing power in
  any situation, at any time, by means of a range
  of media and devices and by means of
  user-friendly interfaces
• Third generation ICT mainframe -gt stand alone -gt
  embedded networked ICTs

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Technological baseline

• Smart materials with sensors and com capacity
• Speech, tag and pattern recognition
• ID authentication
• Micro-payment systems
• Seamless interoperability of communication
  networks/ network management
• Intelligent agents and middleware
• Distributed databases management/ datamining and
  warehousing
• Nanotechnology / Cross-technology

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Four scenarios
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Dimitrios - D-Me (1)

• Scenario elements (see text)
• An individually embedded gateway the D-Me
• Privacy downloaded and shared sensors
• One or several versions of oneself
• An avatar that takes decision and acts on your
  behalf
• A virtual space for matching people

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Dimitrios - D-Me (2)

• Examples of quoted cybercrime issues
• Emotional bandwidth and authentication
• Multiple identities and identity definition
• Criminal networking facilitated
• Privacy control of, and access to, private data
• Others?

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Carmen - Traffic optimization (1)

• Scenario elements (see text)
• Optimizing traffic by sharing/integrating private
  and public transportation for people and goods
• Increasing safety
• Reducing pollution
• Transportation of goods
• All vehicles a node in the network
• All goods tagged

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Carmen - Traffic optimization (2)

• Examples of quoted cybercrime issues
• Integrated urban transport management system
• Privacy issues (location, transportation means,
  etc.)
• Payment issues (authentication, theft, etc..)
• Others?

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Cybercrime in an AmI environment

• 1. Vehicles and targets for cybercrime ?
• Integrated complex systems
• Emotional bandwidth
• Multiple identities
• Others?
• 2. Existing or to-be-developed solutions ?

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Thank you
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Maria Road Warrior (pt1)

• Scenario Maria a high pressured sales woman
  thriving on her personal ambient communicator
  system
• Technology
• Micro-sized software radio
• Electronic ID
• Ad-hoc network management
• Agent technologies
• Augmented objects
• Security, trust technologies

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Maria Road Warrior (pt2)

• Economic
• Hardware markets P-Com, augmented objects
• ATML start-up explosion
• Premium service model multiservice vendor
  (personal agent hire and training outlets,
  credit, micropayments and billing)
• Cross-sectoral alliances/ global partnership
  models
• Leasing business models
• Socio-political
• Privacy, trust security security breaches,
  identity theft and ID-key black outs (lock out).
• Multiple identities
• Potential key divide
• There has to be an Off-switch

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Ambient for Social Learning (pt1)

• Scenario An ambient that connects...
• physical spaces and augmented objects,
• individuals and groups
• collaborative tasks and co-design
• renewal and refreshment
• seamless interaction - people and places
• Technology
• Recognition (tracing and identification) of
  individuals, groups and objects.
• Interactive aids for negotiating goals and
  challenges.
• Projection facilities for light and soundfields
• Aids for reviewing experiences
• Content design facilities
• Community memory

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Ambient for Social Learning (pt2)

• Economic
• Telepresence hardware suppliers holographic
  displays, sound field imaging, sensors
• Content providers and customisation (publishers,
  new media providers, educationalists,
  consultants)
• Knowledge management systems providers and
  developers (AmI-era educational services)
• Socio-political
• High potential for choice and personalisation of
  learning approaches
• Emphasis on the social side of the Information
  Society
• Accessibility and availability- zero cost?