[Cryptography] Simple IoT sensor encryption ?

[Melinda Shore]

On 4/17/16 10:43 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> The burglars weren't already inside with access to that particular
> thermostat; if they had been, they could have just looked around for
> themselves to see if anyone was home, or installed their own IR sensors
> and motion detectors alongside the Nest in order to duplicate the
> service it was providing to them.  But they had been able to access and
> analyze Nest thermostats, and learned the language in which it was
> blabbing its owners' secrets.

There are a number of instances of that sort of thing, where
data from sensors can be used to infer what may be private
information.  For example, Jun Han et al's 2007 paper, "Don’t Sweat Your 
Privacy: Using Humidity to Detect Human Presence."

Melinda