Too Much Information – Context-Aware Applications

ChelleChelle writes with a link to IBM research on the limits to and lessons learned from two context-aware computing projects: "As the researchers Moran and Dourish put it, 'Context awareness is fine in theory. The research issue is figuring out how to get it to work in practice.' The article lays out two attempts by IBM to do just this. Grapevine and Rendezvous are services offered to IBM employees as a means of looking into the promise and perils of context-aware computing. From these two experimental services the authors have drawn several valuable lessons." From the article: "What computer scientists commonly call context often has more to do with technology than with work situations, people, or frames of mind."

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Example of context-aware security software

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a company already doing context-aware software. They add strong data security to existing applications.

For example, their security software understands the context of a user trying to print data or export data to other formats from their application:

http://www.innersafe.com/palm_desktop

Supposedly, they provide anti-keylogging and encryption to fill security gaps that are left wide open by security software. They imply (on their home page) that disk encryption and file encryption cannot prevent theft because of gaping security gaps. And their About_Us page describes why AES encryption can be standards-compliant but useless (snake-oil-ng) in many products.

For the impatient, small Flash video clips are at:

https://www.innersafe.com/palm_desktop/videos

I had no idea that Palm Desktop's password was useless.

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