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Peek-a-Boo: I See Your Smart Home Activities, Even Encrypted!
Overview of the Paper
“Peek-a-Boo: I See Your Smart Home Activities, Even Encrypted!”
article by Acar et al.
(2020) explores one of the widely discussed topics specifically consumer or user privacy and
safety when using IoT (Internet of Things) devices. The main area of the paper is user privacy
and security when using a range of smart home devices. In this regard, the article acknowledges
the positive impact of smart home devices while at the same time pinpoints possible threats that
they pose especially when it comes to exposing sensitive data or information about the users and
devices. Ideally, the paper highlights the fact that an attacker either inside or near a smart home
ambiance can exploit the wireless medium that is utilized by smart devices and exfiltrate
sensitive user information (sensor data) thus invading user privacy. Extrapolating from this
position, Acar et al. (2020) try to highlight the existing privacy and security risks that the users of
smart home devices are exposed to. This process is achieved by introducing a novel multi-stage
privacy attack against user privacy within a smart environment.
The article is structured chronologically, with the major sections being the introductory
part, the adversary model, smart home devices, multi-stage privacy attack, approaches for
mitigating privacy leaks, discussion, related work, and conclusion. Moreover, the article utilizes
both qualitative and quantitative data. Quantitative data comprises of data collected from the data
set and evaluation metrics and calculations from network traffic whereas qualitative data is
extrapolated from literature sources as well as smart devices guides. Even though a survey was
not utilized, information was gathered through a real-time experiment.
Discussion
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Acar et al. (2020) justify the novelty of the study by conducting an experiment that
reveals evidence-based information on what is known and the existing gaps with regard to user
privacy. Even though the article lacks a clear future research direction. From a personal
perspective, the paper explores an important topic based on the fact that the smart environment is
continually adapted and utilized in achieving different functions. The most valuable information
that I could use for future research entails the privacy and security threats associated with IoT
devices.
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Reference
Acar, A., Fereidooni, H., Abera, T., Sikder, A. K., Miettinen, M., Aksu, H., ... & Uluagac, S.
(2020, July). Peek-a-Boo: I see your smart home activities, even encrypted!.
In
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and
Mobile Networks
(pp. 207-218).