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<v Speaker 1>In our incredibly fast paced digital world, staying genuinely well informed. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you can feel like trying to catch a waterfall with

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<v Speaker 1>a tea cup. Information bombards us from all sides. But

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<v Speaker 1>that's precisely why we're here today. We're taking a deep

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<v Speaker 1>dive into the truly fasthening realm of security and privacy,

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<v Speaker 1>specifically across our increasingly connected wireless and mobile networks. We've

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<v Speaker 1>sifted through a whole stack of recent research to pull

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<v Speaker 1>out the most critical insights for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and what's particularly striking in this space, I think,

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<v Speaker 2>is the relentless innovation it's happening on both sides of

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<v Speaker 2>the cybersecurity coin. Really, we'll explore the diverse and often

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<v Speaker 2>pretty ingenious attack vectors that adversaries are developing, but also

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<v Speaker 2>the clever, sometimes really surprising ways researchers are trying to

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<v Speaker 2>protect us. From the subtle signals your smart home emits

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<v Speaker 2>to the complex mechanics behind digital advertising. Our mission is

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<v Speaker 2>to give you that shortcut, that understanding of these critical

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<v Speaker 2>evolving developments.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's begin by looking at our smart environments. Smart homes.

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<v Speaker 1>They offer incredible convenience, right, no argument there, but they

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<v Speaker 1>also quietly introduce new and sometimes quite surprising vulnerabilities. And

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<v Speaker 1>this is a big deal because, I mean, the everyday

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<v Speaker 1>activities of the people living in a smart home are

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<v Speaker 1>truly at stake. Here, researchers have uncovered this particularly insidious

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<v Speaker 1>threat they call fingerprint and timing based snooping FA task attacks.

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<v Speaker 1>And here's where the subtlety really hits home. These attacks,

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<v Speaker 1>they don't even need access to your encrypted.

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<v Speaker 2>Data, right, that's the key.

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<v Speaker 1>Instead, they exploit these faint underlying bits of information like

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<v Speaker 1>the frequency of radio signals or the precise timing of

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<v Speaker 1>data transfers.

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<v Speaker 2>The metadata almost exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>To infer your daily routines. Imagine like your regular coffee

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<v Speaker 1>making ritual or when you watch TV in the evening.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that pattern.

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<v Speaker 1>It can become a privacy risk without you ever realizing it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's kind of creepy, actually, it really is. And to

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<v Speaker 2>counteract these FATS attacks, researchers have proposed an adaptive method.

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<v Speaker 2>It's based on sound data analysis and supervised learning called SDASL.

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<v Speaker 2>So the way this works is by analyzing these huge

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<v Speaker 2>data sets of general public activity patterns, basically figuring what

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<v Speaker 2>common routines look like. Then it uses what they call

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<v Speaker 2>adaptive fake messages. It essentially pads your real data, creating

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<v Speaker 2>this kind of digital camouflage.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh okay, so it hides your specific actions in a

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<v Speaker 1>crowd of plausible looking noise.

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<v Speaker 2>Precisely, it actively obscures your individual activities, making it incredibly

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<v Speaker 2>difficult for attackers to pick out your habits from the

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<v Speaker 2>general traffic patterns and the experiments they've shown. This approach offers,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, low energy consumption, low latency, it's pretty adaptable

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<v Speaker 2>and gives effective privacy protection. It significantly outperforms simpler methods

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<v Speaker 2>like there's one called construct that that causes high delays.

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<v Speaker 2>Another fit pro brat well that can still reveal routines

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<v Speaker 2>if you analyze the transmission density. Yeah. So the core

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<v Speaker 2>insight here, I think is that this moves beyond just

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<v Speaker 2>simple encryption. It's actively trying to blend and muddle your

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<v Speaker 2>digital footprint, make your digital ghost truly untraceable.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, from the subtle signals of smart homes. Let's broaden

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<v Speaker 1>the view a bit to another really ubiquitous wireless technology,

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<v Speaker 1>RFID radio frequency identification. You might not realize it, but

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<v Speaker 1>those tiny tags on everyday items, they carry their own

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<v Speaker 1>unique privacy implications. So what's being done there, Well, there's

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<v Speaker 1>this concept of grouping proof in RFID. It's basically about

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<v Speaker 1>verifying that a specific set of tagged items were present

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time in place.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, like confirming a whole shipment arrived together exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>But because RFID is inherently wireless, it's well, it's vulnerable. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and one specific threat is the deny of proof attack

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<v Speaker 1>or DOP, where readers could potentially submit bogus proof data making.

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<v Speaker 2>It look like items were grouped when they actually weren't.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, precisely, which could cause all sorts of problems and

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<v Speaker 1>logistics or inventory.

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<v Speaker 2>So proposed solution is the ECC based Offline Anonymous Grouping

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<v Speaker 2>Proof Protocol EAGP for short. This protocol leverages elliptic curve

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<v Speaker 2>cryptography ECC, which is like a highly efficient, pretty sophisticated

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<v Speaker 2>digital lock and key system. It's perfect for devices with

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, lightweight crypto makes sense, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And its core innovation is allowing the reader to examine

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<v Speaker 2>identities of the individual tags involved.

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<v Speaker 1>Anonymity exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>It's been shown to resist impersonation and replay attacks, and

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<v Speaker 2>crucially it protects the tags information even if the reader

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<v Speaker 2>itself gets compromised. But this does raise an important question,

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't it Does allowing for anonymous proof create any new challenges,

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<v Speaker 2>like in scenarios where knowing the exact identity of a component,

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<v Speaker 2>say in a supply chain, might be critical for tracking

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<v Speaker 2>defects or something.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a really great point. Yeah, it's always this trade off,

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<v Speaker 1>isn't it finding that balance between privacy and accountability or

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<v Speaker 1>traceability in this case? Yeah? Okay, So beyond individual devices,

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<v Speaker 1>we also need to think about broader wireless sensor networks

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<v Speaker 1>or WSNs. These networks face the threat of sibyl attacks.

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<v Speaker 1>This is where a single malicious node creates multiple fake

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<v Speaker 2>Right, it's like one bad actor secretly cloning themselves to

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<v Speaker 2>overwhelm the system or skew data.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds chaotic. How do you detect that well?

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<v Speaker 2>To detect these sibl nodes, a computationally lightweight, sort of

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<v Speaker 2>watchdog based algorithm has been developed in the system. Certain

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<v Speaker 2>watchdog nodes are designated to collect detection information. This infos

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<v Speaker 2>and passed to another node for processing, which identifies the

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<v Speaker 2>fake identities.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's like neighborhood watch for the network.

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<v Speaker 2>Kind of yeah, And the approach offers low communication overhead,

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<v Speaker 2>which is important for sensor networks, and a fair balance

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<v Speaker 2>between catching the fakes and you know, not falsely accusing

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<v Speaker 2>legitimate nodes. Simulations have consistently shown pretty good detection rates,

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<v Speaker 2>like at least ninety five percent after enough monitoring steps

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<v Speaker 2>five percent, which makes it highly adaptable for critical applications

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<v Speaker 2>like the Internet of Things IoT and smart healthcare.

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<v Speaker 1>A ninety five percent detection rate sounds pretty robust, I guess,

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<v Speaker 1>but in critical applications like healthcare, that remaining five percent

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<v Speaker 1>of undetected malicious nodes, I mean that could still be catastrophic,

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't that?

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, you're spawn on. It's a constant challenge.

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<v Speaker 1>So what are the biggest hurdles to pushing that detection

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<v Speaker 1>rate even higher towards one hundred percent.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the primary hurdles are really balancing the computational cost.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember these are often very resource constrained devices, against the

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<v Speaker 2>need for more frequent or more complex monitoring. Plus the

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<v Speaker 2>attackers the adversaries they're always devising new ways to make

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<v Speaker 2>their fake identities look more legitimate, more convincing.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's that ongoing cat and mouse game.

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<v Speaker 2>Again, exactly, it really is.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, that makes sense, right, Let's navigate now into privacy

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<v Speaker 1>in our mobile and digital interactions, and we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>focus on something that seems well pretty innocuous. Push notifications.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, those simple alerts you get. You might think

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<v Speaker 1>they're harmless, but they can actually be a surprising source

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<v Speaker 1>of privacy vulnerability.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this one's quite subtle.

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<v Speaker 1>Researchers have identify what they call the push notification attack.

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<v Speaker 1>The problem is, even though the channel might be encrypted,

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<v Speaker 1>action anonymity may fail, which means the specific actions that

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<v Speaker 1>trigger a notification, like say a friendship request on a

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<v Speaker 2>The timing links the action to the device.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, and this correlation can then be exploited to reveal

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<v Speaker 1>your real identity even if you're using pseudonyms online.

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<v Speaker 2>And these attacks, they can be carried out in a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of main ways online where active attackers are actually

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<v Speaker 2>triggering notifications and capturing packets in real time, or offline,

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<v Speaker 2>where passive attackers just correlate, say, social network activity they

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<v Speaker 2>observe with notification patterns they've previously recorded.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, okay, so either actively poking or passively watching exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>And what's particularly concerning here is that this attack it

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<v Speaker 2>sort of bypasses the standard ways of protecting user privacy

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<v Speaker 2>that operate at the network layer, because this one works

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<v Speaker 2>at the application level.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah it tappening higher at the stack.

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<v Speaker 2>Precisely and critically, it requires no additional software on the

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<v Speaker 2>victim's mobile device. They don't need to install anything on

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<v Speaker 2>your phone. For instance. Researchers discovered that even the percent's

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<v Speaker 2>size and timing of these tiny data bursts, like they

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<v Speaker 2>found an IT packet of exactly one hundred and ninety

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<v Speaker 2>six bytes is pushed from a server when a friendship

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<v Speaker 1>One hundred ninety six bytes that's specific.

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<v Speaker 2>That's specific, followed by larger packets for metadata, and then

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<v Speaker 2>a one ninety five byte packet signals a cancelation. This

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<v Speaker 2>creates this unique digital fingerprint enough to potentially expose your identity.

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<v Speaker 2>It's quite striking how something so seemingly insignificant can become

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<v Speaker 2>well a fingerprint.

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<v Speaker 1>That is fascinating. Tiny details matter.

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<v Speaker 2>They really do. Proposed defenses include things like introducing random

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<v Speaker 2>delays on message delivery, or using randomly sized padded packets

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<v Speaker 2>to confuse the size signature.

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<v Speaker 1>Make everything look the same size sort of.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, or maybe multiplexing push notification traffic through a single

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<v Speaker 2>server to obscure the patterns for anyone user.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a truly clever attack using timing and packet size.

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<v Speaker 1>It really makes you wonder, doesn't it. How many other

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<v Speaker 1>subtle digital signals we're just you know, unknowingly broadcasting all

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<v Speaker 2>Mm hmmm a lot?

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<v Speaker 1>Probably. Speaking of clever strategies, let's shift gears a bit

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<v Speaker 1>to targeted advertising. Obviously, there's massive investment in mobile ads,

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<v Speaker 1>so a key question arises, what are the implications for

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<v Speaker 1>your privacy when companies are constantly trying to show you

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<v Speaker 1>personalized ads?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, a huge issue there is click fraud, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Fake clicks, bots pretending to be people.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly where bad actors generate fake clicks, and traditional detection

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<v Speaker 2>methods they're becoming increasingly vulnerable to these really sophisticated bot nets.

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<v Speaker 1>So new solutions are desperately needed, I guess, to ensure

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<v Speaker 1>that advertise money is spent effectively and you know, legitimately.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, and one proposal is a decentralized advert distribution system.

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<v Speaker 2>The aim is to prevent this fraud and ensure report integrity,

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<v Speaker 2>but crucially while maintaining user privacy. It uses a blockchain

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<v Speaker 2>inspired architecture not quite blockchain but inspired by it, called

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<v Speaker 2>the AD Report Chain or ARC that's for users' activity reports.

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<v Speaker 2>And alongside that there's a shared service confirmation board.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, ARC and a confirmation board. How does that work? Well?

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<v Speaker 2>The system employs checkpoint blocks. These are signed by the

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<v Speaker 2>ad dealers to verify a user's location or activity but

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<v Speaker 2>without revealing personal details. And also affiliation blocks, which are

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<v Speaker 2>exchanged between users to verify social ties, again without exposing identities.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting so verification with that identification exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>This unique system allows for behavioral verification to prevent fraud,

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<v Speaker 2>but it also provides insights into consumer practices like maybe

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<v Speaker 2>interest similarity among social connections, or correlation between ads and locations,

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<v Speaker 2>but without compromising your identity or sharing sensitive personal data

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<v Speaker 2>like your IP address. It's a pretty fascinating way to

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<v Speaker 2>try and get valuable data while still respecting privacy.

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<v Speaker 1>It sounds complex, but definitely addresses that core tension. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we've looked at the tech, the data, the networks, but

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<v Speaker 1>cybersecurity isn't just about code and circuits, is it? If

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<v Speaker 1>fundamental comes down to us, the users? And this is

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<v Speaker 1>where it gets really interesting. I think how our own

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<v Speaker 1>behavior and perceptions play such a critical role in digital security.

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely, the human element is huge.

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<v Speaker 1>So we often hear this term digital natives right, referring

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<v Speaker 1>between nineteen eighty seven and nineteen ninety seven. And there's

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<v Speaker 1>often this assumption that will because they grew up with technology,

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<v Speaker 1>they must be inherently more security aware. But is that

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<v Speaker 2>Well, a study on something called user modeling validation reveals

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<v Speaker 2>a pretty surprising core finding. It turns out that security

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<v Speaker 2>expert's own understanding of how digital natives behave online well,

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<v Speaker 1>So the experts model of these users is off in.

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<v Speaker 2>Some key ways. Yes. For example, the experts in the

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, interesting, we assume they do, but maybe.

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<v Speaker 2>Not so much, right or how often they pay attention

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<v Speaker 2>to those secure connection signs on Wi Fi? Experts thought

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<v Speaker 2>it was higher. But conversely, the experts also overestimated the

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<v Speaker 2>percentage of digital natives who store passwords in plaintext on

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<v Speaker 1>So they thought password habits were worse than they are

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<v Speaker 2>Apparently so for that group. And this gap, this mismatch

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<v Speaker 2>between expert assumptions and actual user behavior, it means that

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<v Speaker 2>security mechanisms are misaligned with the user group and that

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<v Speaker 2>impedes both security and the user experience. Things might be

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<v Speaker 2>harder to use ooh than necessary, or not protect in

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<v Speaker 1>That really makes you think it does, and.

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<v Speaker 2>It raises this important question. Whose responsibility is it to

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<v Speaker 2>bridge this gap? Is it on the user to become

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<v Speaker 2>to understand the user better?

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<v Speaker 1>That is a truly profound question. Yeah, if the tools

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<v Speaker 2>Start, isn't it seems that way?

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<v Speaker 1>And thinking about human factors, what about the profound impact

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<v Speaker 1>of culture, culture on privacy perception. How does that translate

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<v Speaker 2>That's another fascinating layer.

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<v Speaker 1>The ICT revolution information and communication technology. It's fundamentally changed

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<v Speaker 2>Right and across cultural study comparing Italy and Turkey offered

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<v Speaker 2>some really striking differences in privacy perception. It found that

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<v Speaker 2>Italians tended to perceive privacy as more clean, good, useful,

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<v Speaker 2>and very much a personal concept. It's often framed as

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<v Speaker 2>a human right, which seems linked to recent political focus

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so generally positive rights based view exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>In contrast, for the Turkish Titans in the study, the

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<v Speaker 2>concept of privacy the word dislick. It's newer, it's less

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<v Speaker 2>understood culturally perhaps, and sometimes it was perceived quite negatively

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<v Speaker 2>as useless, social rather than personal, even dirty or bad.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's a huge difference, dirty or bad.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And the researchers connect these differences pretty clearly to

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<v Speaker 2>each country's recent history and the specific public debates or

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<v Speaker 2>lack thereof around technology adoption and its implications. What truly

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<v Speaker 2>stands out here is just how deeply cultural context shapes

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<v Speaker 2>our fundamental understanding and approach to digital privacy. It really

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<v Speaker 2>makes you wonder, doesn't it. We sort of assume privacy

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<v Speaker 2>is this universal concept, maybe with minor variations, but clearly

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<v Speaker 2>it's deeply rooted in our histories, our societies, our political dialogues.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a powerful reminder that tech design isn't just about

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<v Speaker 1>code and usability. It's deeply about culture too. Couldn't agree

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<v Speaker 1>more absolutely? Okay, it's a stark reminder of the complexities

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<v Speaker 1>beyond the purely technical. Finally, let's circle back one more

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<v Speaker 2>Always tough one.

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<v Speaker 1>We're talking about collaborative intrusion detection networks see IDNs. These

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<v Speaker 2>Right pooling knowledge.

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<v Speaker 1>And these systems typically rely on challenge based trust mechanisms. Basically,

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<v Speaker 1>they quiz each other's send challenges to confirm who's trustworthy

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<v Speaker 1>and who might be a potential bad actor inside the network.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so like a digital interrogation to build trust.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, something like that. But researchers have identified a sophisticated

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<v Speaker 2>Special on Off Attack. Okay, what does that do?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? This attack allows a malicious node, an insider, to

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<v Speaker 2>Ah, so it's two faced. It lies selectively exactly, it.

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<v Speaker 1>Puts on a different phase depending on who it's talking to,

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<v Speaker 1>and this directly challenges two key assumptions that these traditional

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<v Speaker 1>the assumption that malicious nodes will always behave untruly when challenged.

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<v Speaker 2>But this soa node can choose when to lie precisely,

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<v Speaker 2>and the research findings show that SOOA could greatly degrade

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<v Speaker 2>the effectiveness and robustness of challenge based seidns. It significantly

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<v Speaker 2>slows down the detection of these malicious insider nodes, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's particularly insidious. The research nodes. When the malicious node

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<v Speaker 2>behaves normally directly to the specific node that's supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>be a valuealuating it while lying to others makes it

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<v Speaker 2>incredibly hard to spot.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's sneaky.

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<v Speaker 2>It really is. And if we connect this to the

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<v Speaker 2>bigger picture, this SOA isn't just you know, another clever attack.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a stark reminder that even our most robust defense strategies,

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<v Speaker 2>things like challenge based trust, they need constant reevaluation. The

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<v Speaker 2>adversary is always probing, always adapting, always looking for those

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<v Speaker 2>cracks in the assumptions. It forces us to think two

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<v Speaker 1>It's astonishing, really how intelligent and adaptable these threats are becoming. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>let's just take a moment to unpack all of this.

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<v Speaker 1>We've explored a truly vast and frankly intricate landscape of

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<v Speaker 1>to that really nuanced human element of user behavior and

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<v Speaker 1>cultural perceptions. M it's clear that threats are diverse, they're

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<v Speaker 1>iver revolving, but you know, so's the ingenuity on the

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, I think the key aha moments here for me anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>really reinforce that security isn't just about the technical solutions,

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<v Speaker 2>as important as they are, it's also deeply intertwined with

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<v Speaker 2>understanding human interaction, those cultural context we talked about, and

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<v Speaker 2>just the sheer evolving sophistication of the adversaries. What aspects

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<v Speaker 2>truly stand out to you after diving into all this material.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good question. I think for me, it's the interconnectedness.

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<v Speaker 1>How a tiny packet size difference, or a cultural view

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<v Speaker 1>of privacy, or an assumption about user behavior can have

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<v Speaker 1>these huge security implications. It's all linked. So here's a

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<v Speaker 1>Given how deeply intertwined our digital and real lives have

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<v Speaker 1>discussed how much responsibility truly falls on the technology designers

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<v Speaker 1>to really understand human behavior, culture, all of it and

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<v Speaker 1>build inherently safer systems from the ground up, and how

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<v Speaker 1>much responsibility falls on us as individuals to constantly adapt

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<v Speaker 1>our own security practices, awareness, and maybe most importantly, what

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<v Speaker 1>are the implications if these two sides that design and

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<v Speaker 1>the user remain misaligned.