Spanning smart phones and the Internet of Things, consumer-oriented computing devices are diverse and pervasive.
While these technologies create unprecedented opportunity for innovation,
they also expose novel attack surfaces that must be better understood in order to provide adequate protection to end users.
Our work in this space is two fold:
first, to reason about the security challenges created by consumer devices,
but also to identify ways in which these technologies can be leveraged to address the broader goals of computer security.
Our recent achievements in this area include helping to protect the privacy of athletes that use fitness tracking devices,
uncovering new vulnerabilities in voice-activated IoT devices,
and introducing new methods of detecting misbehaving commercial drones.
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