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Predictive Maintenance Strategies for Internet of Things (IoT) Systems in Transportation
Authors: Pandey Satendra Ch. , P Vasanthi Kumari
Published: October 2023

The rapid integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into transportation systems has paved the way for transformative advancements in efficiency, safety, and operational management. In this context, Predictive Maintenance (PdM) strategies have emerged as a crucial paradigm, offering the potential to revolutionize maintenance practices in the transportation sector.Predictive maintenance strategies for IoT systems in transportation offer a promising solution to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, enhance safety, and prolong the life of assets. As IoT technology continues to advance, the transportation industry is poised to benefit from increasingly accurate and reliable predictive maintenance solutions. Predictive maintenance in IoT-enabled transportation systems represents a transformative approach to maintenance management, leveraging data and analytics to ensure the continued reliability and safety of vehicles and infrastructure while optimizing operational costs. One critical application is predictive maintenance, which leverages IoT data to preemptively identify and address maintenance needs in vehicles and infrastructure.
Harnessing Green Networking: A Guide to Sustainable Energy Efficiency
Authors: Suman Bhawana , Sambhav Saurabh , Singh Shilpi
Published: October 2023

In this study, we have discussed the implementation and usage of Green networking or the practice of using energy-efficient technologies. Also, we have deliberated an approach for reducing the environmental impacts of computers, networks, and related equipment. The concept of green computing refers to using computer resources efficiently, reducing energy consumption, and making sure that they don't generate unnecessary waste. This includes technologies such as low-power processors, energy-efficient LED displays, and power management systems. Additionally, there are efforts to reduce e-waste by encouraging recycling, and reusing parts and components. By implementing some strategies it is possible to limit the number of harmful emissions that result in fr0m the use of technology and reduce its carbon footprint. Since the processes to reduce environmental impacts, are becoming increasingly important in today’s technology-driven world. With this in mind, this literature provides an overview of Green IoT, and Green AI with some case studies and real-life examples.
Edukasi melalui Medsos guna Optimalisasi Kemampuan Sosial Emosional dan Kesehatan Reproduksi Remaja di Sulawesi Barat
Authors: Yusuf Tita Ayunimirta , Anindita Dyah Sekarpuri
Published: October 2023

Berdasarkan persentase dari setiap provinsi, Sulawesi Barat menempati posisi terendah dalam penanaman nilai dan fungsi reproduksi pada tiga dari total empat poin indikator, diantaranya adalah menerapkan pendidikan tentang kese hatan reproduksi, menerapkan ajaran menghindari pergaulan bebas dan mengajarkan tentang pendewasaan usia perkawinan. Data dari BPS tahun 2018 tentang Pencegahan Perkawinan Anak menunjukkan, Sulawesi Barat merupakan provinsi dengan prevalensi pernikahan usia anak tertinggi di Indonesia, dengan persentase 19,34%. Guna memberikan persepsi yang utuh tentang kesehatan reproduksi dengan tidak hanya fokus membahas aspek fisik dari fungsi reproduksi saja namun juga dari segi sosial dan emosional maka pengembangan media informasi SI MONALISA (Optimalisasi Kemampuan Emosional dan Kesehatan Reproduksi Usia Remaja) ini dilakukan. Dengan mempertimbangkan remaja sebagai calon pengantin dan generasi penerus yang perlu dipersiapkan untuk menghadapi kehidupan keluarga, sebagai target sasaran. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan produk,

yang terdiri dari analisis kebutuhan secara kualitatif melalui observasi, wawancara, dan studi literatur, proses pembuatan akun dan konten melalui Instagram, dan evaluasi secara kuantitatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini ditunjukkan melalui proses penerapan media pembelajaran SI MONALISA yang dilakukan melalui empat tahapan diantaranya: 1) Koordinasi dengan berbagai pemangku kebijakan; 2) Penyusunan materi aspek sosial dan emosional; 3) Publikasi materi dan diskusi dengan tokoh dan pakar; 4) Evaluasi Program. Capaian dari ide pengembangan yang dilakukan adalah terfasilitasinya media informasi untuk menjadi ruang belajar bagi remaja yang dapat mendukung penanaman

nilai dan fungsi reproduk si, pengenalan terhadap konsep sosial dan emosional, persiapan kehidupan berkeluarga bagi remaja maupun pengetahuan lain yang terkait.
Faktor-Faktor yang Memengaruhi Efektivitas Implementasi Kebijakan Penyelesaian Penguasaan Tanah dalam Kawasan Hutan
Authors: Manik Henri
Published: October 2023

Maraknya konflik penguasaan tanah yang berkepanjangan di dalam wilayah kawasan hutan membutuhkan suatu tindakan yang legal, tepat dan menguntungkan para pihak. Peraturan Presiden Nomor 88 Tahun 2017 tentang Penyelesaian Penguasaan Tanah dalam Kawasan Hutan (PPTKH) merupakan kebijakan yang diterbitkan untuk memberikan jalan keluar penyelesaiannya. Studi ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh faktor-faktor komunikasi, sumber daya, disposisi dan birokrasi terhadap efektivitas implementasi kebijakan Perpres. Lokasi penelitian ini adalah di Desa Sihaporas Kecamatan Pematang Sidamanik Kabupaten Simalungun Provinsi Sumatera Utara. Data dikumpulkan melalui penyebaran kuesioner lalu dianalisis secara kuantitatif dengan menggunakan aplikasi SPSS, dan informasi lain dijaring dengan menerapkan metode wawancara dan diskusi kelompok terarah (FGD). Hasil Uji t (uji koefisien regresi secara parsial) menunjukkan bahwa faktor komunikasi dan struktur birokrasi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap efektivitas implementasi kebijakan. Sebaliknya, faktor sumber daya dan disposisi berpengaruh tidak signifikan. Selanjutnya hasil uji (F) menunjukkan bahwa secara simultan faktor komunikasi, sumber daya, disposisi, dan struktur birokrasi secara bersama-sama berpengaruh terhadap efektivitas implementasi kebijakan tersebut. Implementasi Perpres ini berjalan kurang efektif sebab ditemukan hambatan dalam dimensi faktor komunikasi dan dimensi faktor struktur birokrasi berupa transmisi/penyaluran terkait strategi (media dan cara) penyebaran informasi yang kurang baik dan fragmentasi terkait pembagian tugas dan tanggung jawab Pemerintah Pusat dan Daerah. Hasil diskusi kelompok terfokus (FGD) mengindikasikan bahwa masyarakat Desa Sihaporas membutuhkan peningkatan pengetahuan dan keterampilan yang diharapkan dapat meningkatkan tingkat literasi masyarakat sejalan dengan peningkatan posisi tawar mereka dengan para pihak lainnya
Keberlanjutan Pengembangan Kurikulum Pelatihan Manajemen Usaha Pelayanan Jasa Alat Mesin Pertanian (UPJA)
Authors: Hardjono Widi
Published: October 2023

Kinerja Usaha Pelayanan Jasa Alat Mesin Pertanian (UPJA) perlu ditingkatkan terkait peran manajerial, selain aspek teknis operasional alat mesin pertanian. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) menganalisis status keberlanjutan dan atribut yang dominan memengaruhi pengelolaan UPJA di Kabupaten Cianjur ditinjau dari dimensi pengetahuan optimalisasi pemanfaatan alsintan, sikap dan motivasi, kewirausahaan, kelembagaan, dan tingkat keberhasilan usaha ekonomi; (2) mengembangkan kurikulum pelatihan manajerial bagi pengelola UPJA berdasarkan hasil analisis status keberlanjutan dan atribut yang dominan dalam upaya peningkatan kompetensi dan pengembangan usaha. Metode yang digunakan adalah multidimensional scaling (MDS) dengan perangkat Rapfish (RAP-UPJA).  Lokasi kajian dilakukan pada 19 kecamatan dengan responden terdiri dari pengelola UPJA, penyuluh pendamping serta pakar materi. Hasil kajian menunjukkan tingkat keberlanjutan pengelolaan UPJA tertinggi adalah pada dimensi sikap dan motivasi pengelola UPJA dengan rataan skor 86,47 (sangat berkelanjutan). Indikator leverage dominan dari lima dimensi terdiri dari: pengetahuan dan ketrampilan modifikasi alsintan, pengetahuan perbengkelan, penjualan jasa, norma sosial, standar prosedur, penerapan aturan, peluang pasar, komitmen berwirausaha, manajemen pengelolaan, kemampuan merumuskan-memecahkan masalah, komunikasi internal dan eksternal dalam lembaga serta manajemen waktu.  Hasil penyempurnaan kurikulum adalah proporsi jam berlatih terdiri dari 33 persen teori dan 68 persen praktik. Implikasi kebijakan yang perlu dibenahi adalah integrasi berbagai subsistem terkait seperti penyedia alsintan, pengguna, lembaga keuangan, serta kelembagaan pengelola UPJA.
Evaluation of Burnout Syndrome and associated factors in primary care health personnel
Authors: Linares Cánovas Lázaro Pablo , Linares Cánovas Liyansis Bárbara , Pereda Rodríguez Yoelys , Gallardo Hernández Beatriz , Pérez Martín Martha María , Montano Adalina Linares
Published: October 2023

Objective: to evaluate Burnout syndrome and associated factors in health personnel of Primary Care. Methods: observational, analytical, cross-sectional study, carried out in Pinar del Río during January 2023, in non-probabilistic sampling for convenience, of 127 participants, who met the inclusion criteria. The application of instruments such as the Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire, allowed obtaining the information that gave output to the studied variables, applying descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Medical ethics were respected. Results: 66,9 % of the workers were women, with a median of 31 years of age. Resident physicians predominated (45,7 %), with a median of 8 years working in the sector. 73,2 % showed overload, with the emotional exhaustion dimension being the most affected. The presence of Burnout syndrome was associated with sleeping eight hours a day (p=0,016) and with satisfaction with economic income (p<0,001). The affectation of the emotional exhaustion dimension was statistically associated with sex, religion and sleeping eight hours a day (p<0,05). Depersonalization was associated with religion (p=0,001), sleeping eight hours a day (p=0,016), smoking (p=0,001) and satisfaction with economic income (p=0,011); while professional achievement was related to sleeping eight hours a day (p<0,001), adequate dietary habits (p=0,038) and satisfaction with economic income (p=0,016). Conclusions: Burnout syndrome was evaluated in primary care health personnel, identifying the demographic characteristics, lifestyle and work variables of the sample, and their relationship with professional exhaustion
Pedagogical experience with Public Health campaigns from the design of socio-educational projects with insertion in the local territory
Authors: Lepez Carlos Oscar , Simeoni Irene Amelia
Published: October 2023

Introduction: in today's society, educational management has become an imperative for the creation of knowledge and innovative educational experiences. In the context of the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing at the University of Buenos Aires, a pedagogical experience focused on a public health campaign on Dengue was carried out. The main objective of this experience was to promote the democratization of scientific and health knowledge in relation to Dengue, guaranteeing the right of access to public health information. We sought to create an environment conducive to learning, active participation of students and interaction with the community.Development: the experience was divided into three stages: initial, progressive and territorial anchoring. In the initial stage, students were prepared through theoretical and technical sessions. The progressive stage involved adjustments and corrections in collaboration with the teaching team. In the territorial anchoring stage, groups of students carried out the public health campaign in sectors close to the university. The evaluation was carried out using group monitoring instruments and a checklist to evaluate the individual performance of the students. A review and feedback meeting was also held at the end of the experience.Conclusions: the proposed pedagogical experience demonstrated that effective educational management can promote the democratization of knowledge in the field of public health. Collaboration among students and the focus on the right of access to public health information are key elements. In addition, the importance of constant adaptation of educational practices to scientific and technological advances is highlighted. On the other hand, it provided an effective framework for the training of nursing students and the promotion of public health, demonstrating the importance of educational management in today's society
Ortaokul Öğretmenlerinde Yaşamın Anlamı ile Sınıf Yönetimi Davranışları Arasındaki İlişki
Authors: TAPTIK Erkan
Published: October 2023

Bu araştırma ortaokul öğretmenlerinde yaşamın anlamı ile sınıf yönetimi davranışlarının arasındaki ilişkiyi belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışmanın evreni İstanbul ili, Küçükçekmece ilçesinde görev yapan 1384 ortaokul öğretmeni, örneklemi ise Küçükçekmece ilçesinde görev yapan ortaokul öğretmenlerinden seçkisiz örneklem yöntemine göre belirlenen 321 ortaokul öğretmeninden oluşmaktadır. Çalışmada veri toplama aracı olarak “Sınıf Yönetimi Ölçeği” ve “Kişisel Anlam Profili Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır. Ölçeklerin “Kişisel Bilgi Formu” kısmında öğretmenlerin kişisel ve mesleki özelliklerini de içeren kapalı uçlu sorular yer almaktadır.
Ölçeklerden elde edilen veriler analiz edilmiş ve sonuç olarak örneklemin “Sınıf Yönetimi” ile “Kişisel Anlam Profili” ölçek puanları arasında korelasyonel olarak anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu görülmüştür. Sınıf yönetimi alt boyutlarından Derse Başlama ve İlgi ile Kişisel Anlam Profili ve alt boyutları arasında zayıf yönlü ilişkinin var olduğu görülmektedir. Etkileşimsel Davranışlar ile Kişisel Anlam Profili ve alt boyutlarından Din ve Adil Muamele ya da Algılanan Adalet dışında diğerleri ile zayıf ilişki bulunmuştur. İlgiyi Sürdürme ve Sorun Çözme Davranışları ile Kişisel Anlam Profili ve alt boyutlarından Din ve Adil Muamele ya da Algılanan Adalet alt boyutları arasında ilişki bulunamamış, diğer alt boyutlar ile aralarında ilişki bulunmuştur. Uyarma Davranışları ile sadece İlişkiler ve Kendini Aşma alt boyutları arasında zayıf ilişki bulunmuştur. Demokratik Davranışlar ile Din, Kendini Kabul ve Adil Muamele ya da Algılanan Adalet alt boyutları arasında ilişki bulunamamış, diğer alt boyutlar ile aralarında ilişki bulunmuştur.
A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy
Authors: Demir Nurullah , Urban Tobias , Pohlmann Norbert , Wressnegger Christian
Published: October 2023

Cookie notices (or cookie banners) are a popular mechanism for websites to provide (European) Internet users a tool to choose which cookies the site may set. Banner implementations range from merely providing information that a site uses cookies over offering the choice to accepting or denying all cookies to allowing fine-grained control of cookie usage. Users frequently get annoyed by the banner's pervasiveness as they interrupt ''natural'' browsing on the Web. As a remedy, different browser extensions have been developed to automate the interaction with cookie banners. In this work, we perform a large-scale measurement study comparing the effectiveness of extensions for ''cookie banner interaction.'' We configured the extensions to express different privacy choices (e.g., accepting all cookies, accepting functional cookies, or rejecting all cookies) to understand their capabilities to execute a user's preferences. The results show statistically significant differences in which cookies are set, how many of them are set, and which types are set---even for extensions that aim to implement the same cookie choice. Extensions for ''cookie banner interaction'' can effectively reduce the number of set cookies compared to no interaction with the banners. However, all extensions increase the tracking requests significantly except when rejecting all cookies.
SoK: Data Privacy in Virtual Reality
Authors: Munilla Garrido Gonzalo , Nair Vivek , Song Dawn
Published: October 2023

The adoption of virtual reality (VR) technologies has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as companies around the world begin to position the so-called ''metaverse'' as the next major medium for accessing and interacting with the internet. While consumers have become accustomed to a degree of data harvesting on the web, the real-time nature of data sharing in the metaverse indicates that privacy concerns are likely to be even more prevalent in the new ''Web 3.0.'' Research into VR privacy has demonstrated that a plethora of sensitive personal information is observable by various would-be adversaries from just a few minutes of telemetry data. On the other hand, we have yet to see VR parallels for many privacy-preserving tools aimed at mitigating threats on conventional platforms. This paper aims to systematize knowledge on the landscape of VR privacy threats and countermeasures by proposing a comprehensive taxonomy of data attributes, protections, and adversaries based on the study of 74 collected publications. We complement our qualitative discussion with a statistical analysis of the risk associated with various data sources inherent to VR in consideration of the known attacks and defenses. By focusing on highlighting the clear outstanding opportunities, we hope to motivate and guide further research into this increasingly important field.
Efficiently Compiling Secure Computation Protocols From Passive to Active Security: Beyond Arithmetic Circuits
Authors: Blanton Marina , Murphy Dennis , Yuan Chen
Published: October 2023

This work studies compilation of honest-majority semi-honest secure multi-party protocols secure up to additive attacks to maliciously secure computation with abort. Prior work concentrated on arithmetic circuits composed of addition and multiplication gates, while many practical protocols rely on additional types of elementary operations or gates to achieve good performance. In this work we revisit the notion of security up to additive attacks in the presence of additional gates such as random element generation and opening. This requires re-evaluation of functions that can be securely evaluated, extending the notion of protocols secure up to additive attacks, and re-visiting the notion of delayed verification that points to weaknesses in its prior use and designing a mitigation strategy. We transform the computation using dual execution to achieve security in the malicious model with abort and experimentally evaluate the difference in performance of semi-honest and malicious protocols to demonstrate the low cost.
DeTorrent: An Adversarial Padding-only Traffic Analysis Defense
Authors: Holland James K , Carpenter Jason , Oh Se Eun , Hopper Nicholas
Published: October 2023

While anonymity networks like Tor aim to protect the privacy of their users, they are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks such as Website Fingerprinting (WF) and Flow Correlation (FC). Recent implementations of WF and FC attacks, such as Tik-Tok and DeepCoFFEA, have shown that the attacks can be effectively carried out, threatening user privacy. Consequently, there is a need for effective traffic analysis defense. There are a variety of existing defenses, but most are either ineffective, incur high latency and bandwidth overhead, or require additional infrastructure. As a result, we aim to design a traffic analysis defense that is efficient and highly resistant to both WF and FC attacks. We propose DeTorrent, which uses competing neural networks to generate and evaluate traffic analysis defenses that insert 'dummy' traffic into real traffic flows. DeTorrent operates with moderate overhead and without delaying traffic. In a closed-world WF setting, it reduces an attacker's accuracy by 61.5%, a reduction 10.5% better than the next-best padding-only defense. Against the state-of-the-art FC attacker, DeTorrent reduces the true positive rate for a .00001 false positive rate to about .12, which is less than half that of the next-best defense. We also demonstrate DeTorrent's practicality by deploying it alongside the Tor network and find that it maintains its performance when applied to live traffic.
A False Sense of Privacy: Towards a Reliable Evaluation Methodology for the Anonymization of Biometric Data
Authors: Hanisch Simon , Todt Julian , Patino Jose , Evans Nicholas , Strufe Thorsten
Published: October 2023

Biometric data contains distinctive human traits such as facial features or gait patterns. The use of biometric data permits an individuation so exact that the data is utilized effectively in identification and authentication systems. But for this same reason, privacy protections become indispensably necessary. Privacy protection is extensively afforded by the technique of anonymization. Anonymization techniques protect sensitive personal data from biometrics by obfuscating or removing information that allows linking records to the generating individuals, to achieve high levels of anonymity. However, our understanding and possibility to develop effective anonymization relies, in equal parts, on the effectiveness of the methods employed to evaluate anonymization performance. In this paper, we assess the state-of-the-art methods used to evaluate the performance of anonymization techniques for facial images and for gait patterns. We demonstrate that the state-of-the-art evaluation methods have serious and frequent shortcomings. In particular, we find that the underlying assumptions of the state-of-the-art are quite unwarranted. State-of-the-art methods generally assume a difficult recognition scenario and thus a weak adversary. However, that assumption causes state-of-the-art evaluations to grossly overestimate the performance of the anonymization. Therefore, we propose a strong adversary which is aware of the anonymization in place. This adversary model implements an appropriate measure of anonymization performance. We improve the selection process for the evaluation dataset, and we reduce the numbers of identities contained in the dataset while ensuring that these identities remain easily distinguishable from one another. Our novel evaluation methodology surpasses the state-of-the-art because we measure worst-case performance and so deliver a highly reliable evaluation of biometric anonymization techniques.
Block Cookies, Not Websites: Analysing Mental Models and Usability of the Privacy-Preserving Browser Extension CookieBlock
Authors: Schöni Lorin , Kubicek Karel , Zimmermann Verena
Published: October 2023

In the modern web, users are confronted with a plethora of complex privacy-related decisions about cookies and consent, often com- pounded by misleading policies and deceptive patterns. Past efforts to enhance online privacy have failed due to their dependence on website compliance. A solution to this lies in privacy-enhancing tools that are directly controlled by the user. However, challenges related to the usability and flawed understanding of the tools’ func- tionality hinder their widespread adoption. To address this problem, we evaluated the browser extension CookieBlock as an example of a current tool, which supports users by blocking tracking cookies independent of website compliance. We used a complementary approach consisting of an expert eval- uation of CookieBlock and the related tools NoScript and Ghostery, and a laboratory user study focusing on the unique details of how users interact with CookieBlock specifically. The laboratory study with 42 participants investigated usage, mental models, and us- ability of CookieBlock based on eye tracking, interaction, and self- report data. While CookieBlock received good usability ratings, 18 participants were unable to solve a website breakage caused by cookie misclassification on their own. Overall, the results revealed flawed mental models of CookieBlock’s functionality and resulting challenges in making the connection between website breakage and cookie misclassification. Implications for CookieBlock and related applications include interface design recommendations supporting accurate mental models and the proposal of improved heuristics to better guide users and warn them about potential identified website breakage.
Privacy Preserving Feature Selection for Sparse Linear Regression
Authors: Akavia Adi , Galili Ben , Shaul Hayim , Weiss Mor , Yakhini Zohar
Published: October 2023

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) provides protocols for learning and statistical analysis of data that may be distributed amongst multiple data owners (e.g., hospitals that own proprietary healthcare data), while preserving data privacy. The PPML literature includes protocols for various learning methods, including ridge regression. Ridge regression controls the L2 norm of the model, but does not aim to strictly reduce the number of non-zero coefficients, namely the L0 norm of the model. Reducing the number of non-zero coefficients (a form of feature selection) is important for avoiding overfitting, and for reducing the cost of using learnt models in practice. In this work, we develop a first privacy-preserving protocol for sparse linear regression under L0 constraints. The protocol addresses data contributed by several data owners (e.g., hospitals). Our protocol outsources the bulk of the computation to two non-colluding servers, using homomorphic encryption as a central tool. We provide a rigorous security proof for our protocol, where security is against semi-honest adversaries controlling any number of data owners and at most one server. We implemented our protocol, and evaluated performance with nearly a million samples and up to 40 features.
DeVoS: Deniable Yet Verifiable Vote Updating
Authors: Müller Johannes , Pejó Balázs , Pryvalov Ivan
Published: October 2023

Internet voting systems are supposed to meet the same high standards as traditional paper-based systems when used in real political elections: freedom of choice, universal and equal suffrage, secrecy of the ballot, and independent verifiability of the election result. Although numerous Internet voting systems have been proposed to achieve these challenging goals simultaneously, few come close in reality. We propose a novel publicly verifiable and practically efficient Internet voting system, DeVoS, that advances the state of the art. The main feature of DeVoS is its ability to protect voters' freedom of choice in several dimensions. First, voters in DeVoS can intuitively update their votes in a way that is deniable to observers but verifiable by the voters; in this way voters can secretly overwrite potentially coerced votes. Second, in addition to (basic) vote privacy, DeVoS also guarantees strong participation privacy by end-to-end hiding which voters have submitted ballots and which have not. Finally, DeVoS is fully compatible with Perfectly Private Audit Trail, a state-of-the-art Internet voting protocol with practical everlasting privacy. In combination, DeVoS offers a new way to secure free Internet elections with strong and long-term privacy properties.
SocIoTy: Practical Cryptography in Smart Home Contexts
Authors: Jois Tushar M. , Beck Gabrielle , Belikovetsky Sofia , Carrigan Joseph , Chator Alishah , Kostick Logan , Zinkus Maximilian , Kaptchuk Gabriel , Rubin Aviel D.
Published: October 2023

Smartphones form an important source of trust in modern computing. But, while their mobility is convenient, smartphones can be stolen or seized, allowing an adversary to impersonate the user in their digital life: accessing the user's services and decrypting their sensitive files. With this in mind, we build SocIoTy, which leverages a user's existing IoT devices to add a context-sensitive layer of security for non-expert users. Instead of assuming the existence of dedicated hardware, SocIoTy re-uses the devices of a user's smart home to provide cryptographic services, which we term at-home cryptography. We show that at-home cryptography can be built from simple cryptographic primitives, and that our SocIoTy solution is able to provide useful functionalities, like two-factor authentication (2FA) and secure file storage, while protecting against powerful adversaries in this setting. We implement and evaluate SocIoTy in real-world use cases and provide microbenchmarks for individual cryptographic operations on realistic models of IoT devices. We also provide full benchmarks of an end-to-end deployment on a simulated smart home, using a smartphone and 9 IoT devices to generate and display 2FA one-time passwords in less than 200 milliseconds. SocIoTy is able to provide strong, practical cryptography while binding its execution to the smart home itself, all without requiring additional hardware.
Communication Breakdown: Modularizing Application Tunneling for Signaling Around Censorship
Authors: Vines Paul , McKay Samuel , Jenter Jesse , Krishnaswamy Suresh
Published: October 2023

We present Raceboat, a novel framework for developing and managing censorship circumvention channels. The Raceboat framework simplifies using signaling channels for low-bandwidth and/or latency-tolerant tasks like bridge distribution and authentication. We further develop a novel decomposition of application tunneling circumvention channels that is well suited to signaling channel usage. This decomposition enables modular components that are reusable across varied channels. We demonstrate the flexibility and extensibility of Raceboat for signaling uses by mixing-and-matching seven different channels.
SoK: Metadata-Protecting Communication Systems
Authors: Sasy Sajin , Goldberg Ian
Published: October 2023

Protecting metadata of communications has been an area of active research since the dining cryptographers problem was introduced by David Chaum in 1988. The Snowden revelations from 2013 resparked research in this direction. Consequently over the last decade we have witnessed a flurry of novel systems designed to protect metadata of users' communications online. However, such systems leverage different assumptions and design choices to achieve their goal; resulting in a scattered view of the desirable properties, potential vulnerabilities, and limitations of existing metadata-protecting communication systems (MPCS).
In this work we survey 31 systems targeting metadata-protected communications, and present a unified view of the current state of affairs. We provide two different taxonomies for existing MPCS, first into four different categories by the precise type of metadata protections they offer, and next into six families based on the core techniques that underlie them. By contrasting these systems we identify potential vulnerabilities, as well as subtle privacy implications of design choices of existing MPCS. Furthermore, we identify promising avenues for future research for MPCS, and desirable properties that merit more attention.
PRIVIC: A privacy-preserving method for incremental collection of location data
Authors: Biswas Sayan , Palamidessi Catuscia
Published: October 2023

With recent advancements in technology, the threats of privacy violations of individuals' sensitive data are surging. Location data, in particular, have been shown to carry a substantial amount of sensitive information. A standard method to mitigate the privacy risks for location data consists in adding noise to the true values to achieve geo-indistinguishability (geo-ind). However, geo-ind alone is not sufficient to cover all privacy concerns. In particular, isolated locations are not sufficiently protected by the state-of-the-art Laplace mechanism (LAP) for geo-ind. In this paper, we focus on a mechanism based on the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm (BA) from the rate-distortion theory. We show that BA, in addition to providing geo-ind, enforces an elastic metric that mitigates the problem of isolation. Furthermore, BA provides an optimal trade-off between information leakage and quality of service. We then proceed to study the utility of BA in terms of the statistics that can be derived from the reported data, focusing on the inference of the original distribution. To this purpose, we de-noise the reported data by applying the iterative Bayesian update (IBU), an instance of the expectation-maximization method. It turns out that BA and IBU are dual to each other, and as a result, they work well together, in the sense that the statistical utility of BA is quite good and better than LAP for high privacy levels. Exploiting these properties of BA and IBU, we propose an iterative method, PRIVIC, for a privacy-friendly incremental collection of location data from users by service providers. We illustrate the soundness and functionality of our method both analytically and with experiments.
Tailoring Digital Privacy Education Interventions for Older Adults: A Comparative Study on Modality Preferences and Effectiveness
Authors: Aly Heba , Liu Yizhou , Ghaiumy Anaraky Reza , Khan Sushmita , Namara Moses , Angela Byrne Kaileigh , Knijnenburg Bart
Published: October 2023

Although older adults are increasingly adopting digital social technologies, a lack of knowledge and experience makes them vulnerable to digital privacy and security threats. It is, therefore, crucial to build digital privacy education interventions that empower older adults to take more control over their digital privacy. Most tutorials and support materials are designed for the younger generations and are not necessarily as effective for the older population. In this paper, we explore the development of education interventions suited to the learning styles of the older adult population. We particularly develop interventions that span a variety of modalities (text, videos, audio presentations, infographics, comics, interactive tutorials, and chatbots) and evaluate these interventions in a focus group study, gathering feedback from both older and younger adults regarding the education interventions and how to improve them. Our findings demonstrate that there are distinct differences in modality preferences between older and younger adults. In this paper, we discuss our findings and contribute to the development of digital privacy education interventions that are tailored to the specific needs and preferences of older adults.
Directions for Amendments to the Security Services Industry Act from a Constitutional Perspective: Focusing on the Human Rights of Security Guards
Authors:   The Korean Society of Private Security, Lee Mu Seon
Published: October 2023

Security guards in apartment complexes have tragically committed suicide in Gangbuk-gu and Gangnam-gu in Seoul due to harrassment and abuse of power by the residents. Despite the continued violations of security guards’ rights in apartment complexes, the current Korean law defines only their duties without providing them with rights and protections.
Meanwhile, on March 23, 2023, the Constitutional Court of Korea decided in 2020 HeonGa 19 that Article 7(5) of the Security Services Industry Act, which prohibits a security services provider from requiring a security guard to engage in unlicensed work areas, is unconstitutional. While there has been dissenting opinions to the decision, the issue regarding the rights of security guards remains unresolved.
The current law defines security guards as persons who conduct security work, in addition to defining their job responsibilities and legal duties. However, the recurring incidents of abuse prompts the need to begin seriously considering the rights of the security guards. This study aims to propose amendments to the Security Services Industry Act to protect the rights of security guards and promote respect for their human rights. To this end, this study reviews the spirit of the Constitution, analyzes the ideologies regarding private security services, critiques whether the recent Constitutional Court decision is related to the rights of security guards, and considers legislative theories in relation to the amendments to the current version of the Security Services Industry Act.
In conclusion, the Security Services Industry Act must reflect the spirit of the Constitution, provide methods of protecting human rights of security guards who are injured, and redefine the status of security guards as security professionals. The author hopes that this study will provide active protection for security guards who are currently unprotected by the law.
Analysis of the appropriateness of police officer placement by region
Authors:   The Korean Society of Private Security, Joo Ii Yeob
Published: October 2023

The purpose of this study is to identify the appropriateness of police officer placement by region through analyzing the relationship between the number of crimes per 1,000 population and the number of residents in charge per police officer, etc. The specific research results are as follows.
First, the number of crimes per 1,000 population by region was above the average in 7 regions. As for the rate of change(%) in the number of crimes by region, 8 regions showed an above-average decrease.
Second, the number of residents in charge per police officer nationwide was above average in 7 regions. As for the rate of change(%) in the number of residents in charge by region, 9 regions were above the average.
Third, as for the relationship between the number of crimes per 1,000 population and the number of residents in charge per police officer, both nationally and regionally, it was found that the number of residents in charge per police officer moved with the number of crimes per 1,000 population.
Fourth, the relationship between the rate of change in the number of crimes per 1,000 population and the rate of change in the number of residents in charge per police officer did not move together.
“The Feeling of the Right Path or the Method of Artistic Creativity”: About Nikolai Korndorf’s Composition In D
Authors:   Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Panteleeva Yuliya N.
Published: October 2023

The article is devoted to the analysis of the compositional technique in a major orchestral composition, In D (1998) by Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001). A characteristic feature of this work is the specific constructive idea associated with the composer’s special approach to the choice of musical material and the means of its development. It is referred to the disclosure of the potential of one single pitch. The author of the article proposes to apply the term of the outstanding Russian painter and art theorist Vassily Kandinsky: “one-tone composition,” in order to characterize this technique. Based on the comparative method, the article provides an examination of the successive connection of this composition with one of the orchestral works from Korndorf’s early musical period and presents a description for the first time of the most important compositional principles of In D. The idea of repetition, observed in the organization of this musical composition, is interpreted by the author of the article as one of the leading elements in it. The article describes a number of other structural ideas that connect Korndorf’s musical style directly with some of the well-known 20th century compositional techniques, such as serialism and Klangfarbenmelodie. The article substantiates the point of view that the composition In D demonstrates a certain number of invariable techniques regularly found in Korndorf’s artistic method.
The Principles and Methods of the Gnesins’ School of Musicology in the Study of the Kuban Traditional Music Culture
Authors:   Krasnodar State Institute of Culture, Zhiganova Svetlana A.
Published: October 2023

The article presents an analysis of the application of the principles and methods developed by the musicological school of the Gnesins’ State Musical-Pedagogical Institute (later, the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music) in the study of the folk music tradition of the eastern Slavic population of the Kuban region. Making use of the principles and methods of history and ethnography, the Moscow-based musicologists have made a considerable amount of progress in understanding the character of this regional culture. The study of folk music from the Kuban region based on the achievements of the Gnesins’ school of musicology began in the 1990s and has continued up to the present time. It was forestalled by Victor Zakharchenko’s professional communication with Evgeny Gippius on musicological subject matter and the combined work of the two masters on the folk music material from the Kuban region. The principles and methods of the researchers from the Gnesin Academy have been applied both at the stage of field activities of folk music ethnographic expeditions and during the cameral activities (analysis and notation of the songs). The folklorists from the Kuban region possess the principles of structural-typological analysis, which allows them to cognize successfully the material of the traditions of late formation. In recent years, fundamental works based on the methods of the Gnesins’ school of folk music studies have been written.
Creative Thinking and Creative Technologies as a Modern Component of Instruction of Music Professions
Authors:   Rostov State S. V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory, Krylova Alexandra V. , Shornikova Alexandra V. ,   Rostov State S. V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory
Published: October 2023

The article is focused on elucidating the necessity of implementation of methods of development of creative thinking into the system of music education. The predominance of logical methods of analysis in the process of music education negates heuristic thinking and transfers the accentuation from the creatively active production of new ideas to mere reproduction of already existing and known models of professional behavior. According to the theory of psychologist Joy Paul Guilford, who initially brought in the term “creativity” into scholarly use, its didactic directedness is initially highlighted, particularly, the formation of its basis the capabilities of solving problems swiftly and non-standardly, the complexity of which is continuously growing in the speedily changing modern society. The presence of this skill within the framework of creative professions is especially crucial, because in art the process of evolution is in many ways connected with the violation of the existent norms. The success of conservatory graduates, who work, among other places, in concert organizations, may be guaranteed not only by their performance opportunities of technical and interpretation varieties, but also by the search for new formats of presenting their music to the audience. This is demonstrated in the article on the example of collaborative artistic projects. While expounding the thesis of a goal-oriented upbringing of creative thinking, the authors propose the structure of a special educational course within the frameworks of which on the basis of theory and practical tasks this skill may be developed. The training part of the course presumes the use of various directions of methods for developing creative skills elaborated by various scholars, such as, for instance, Sigmund Freud’s method of free associations, Tony Buzan’s mindmapping, Mark Levy’s freewriting, etc. The summarizing conclusion of the article is that the formation of the skill of creative thinking is the key to successful personal and professional growth of specialists in the sphere of the art of music.
Rancangan Perbaikan Kualitas Toko Sepatu West Store Medan Berdasarkan Pendekatan Servqual dan QFD
Authors: Akhirullah Agung , Harahap Uun Novalia , Fazri Muhammad
Published: October 2023

Dalam disiplin bisnis yang di antaranya, produksi, penjualan, penyediaan barang, serta jasa layanan  merupakan faktor yang utama dalam berbisnis, terutama bagi pelanggan. Apabila suatu perusahaan menciptakan berbagai hal yang bisa ditangani dan dapat dilihat dalam wujud nyata, maka jasa layanan tersebut tidak memiliki wujud tapi bisa dirasakan oleh pelanggan. Hal ini tidak boleh diremehkan oleh pebisnis, terutama jika perusahaan tersebut bergerak pada bidang pelayanan. Pada suatu bisnis manufaktur penyedia layanan, kualitas merupakan salah satu dari berbagai elemen yang harus dipertimbangkan, jika bisnis tersebut memiliki sifat yang kompetitif terhadap pesaing. Kualitas dinilai krusial karena membuktikan produk yang dijual, tidak hanya menilai kegunaan ataupun jasanya saja, juga dengan kesesuaian antara pembeli dan pengguna dalam memanfaatkan barang ataupun jasa yang disediakan dan dipilih. Jika produk dan jasa yang ditawarkan memiliki kualitas, maka tingkat keinginan konsumen semakin banyak pula, ini dinamkan dengan penyediaan kualitas layanan yang baik. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode Servqual dan QFD, penelitian ini dilakukan oleh penulis pada Toko Sepatu West Store Medan, dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui serta menganalisis tingkat kepuasan pelanggan terhadap kualitas pelayanan dan barang yang ada di toko West Store Medan. Dalam penelitian ini penulis melakukan penjabaran pada setiap metode, tujuannya supaya data yang dihasilkan tidak diragukan keabsahannya. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwasanya masih terdapat kekurangan pelayanan pada Toko Sepatu West Store Medan, di antaranya, kurang sigapnya karyawan toko dalam merespon pembeli,  kurang bertanggung jawab saat melayani, lahan parkir dan kebersihan masih kurang, hingga masih kurangnya kelengkapan fasilitas.
Trading Forex Online Individu: Masalah Syariah
Authors: Sudarmadji Sudarmadji
Published: October 2023

Perdagangan valas, atau juga dikenal sebagai perdagangan mata uang individu online, adalah salah satu isu hangat yang melibatkan kesadaran masyarakat tentang sistem keuangan dan ekonomi Islam, dan apakah implementasinya sesuai Syariah atau sebaliknya. Dengan demikian, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyoroti isu-isu Syariah terkait trading Forex individu sehingga masyarakat tidak mudah tertipu oleh penawaran mewah yang sering diiklankan oleh platform atau broker tertentu. Penelitian kualitatif ini menggunakan metode analisis dokumen yang melibatkan artikel jurnal, tesis, majalah, surat kabar, video dan slide untuk mengumpulkan data, yang kemudian dianalisis menggunakan metode deskriptif. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa ada beberapa masalah Syariah yang signifikan terkait dengan perdagangan Forex, seperti tidak adanya qabd, adanya riba, perjudian dan qard. Temuan juga menunjukkan bahwa masalah ini dapat langsung melarang perdagangan Forex individu meskipun ada omelan dan pedoman yang diajukan oleh berbagai pihak, seperti akademisi, pedagang atau broker, untuk melegalkannya. Salah satu implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah mampu memberikan pemahaman kepada masyarakat muslim sehingga tidak mudah terpengaruh oleh trading Forex individu atas nama profit. Studi ini dapat menambah korpus literatur yang ada tentang topik valuta asing.
PENERAPAN DISTRAKSI RELAKSASI DALAM PENURUNAN INTENSITAS NYERI PADA PASIEN FRAKTUR FEMUR DI RUANG SAKURA RSUD SYARIFAH AMBAMI RATO EBU BANGKALAN
Authors: Yulianingsih  , Erise fatwa amaliya  , Rika handayani  , Hisbul maulana  , Intan Lestari  , Holifah  , Dini Nur Fibriana
Published: October 2023

Introduction: fraktur femur ialah hilangnya kontinuitas pada tulang paha, dengan kondisi klinis berupa fraktur terbuka serta tertutup. Fraktur ini disebebkan oleh syok kecepatan tinggi, kecelakaan kendaraan, jatuh dari ketinggian, atau cedera selama olahraga ekstrim. Objective: asistensi ini bertujuan untuk memberikan asuhan keperawatan pada Tn. A dengan diagnosa medis fraktur femur di ruang Sakura RSUD Syamrabu Bangkalan,dengan penerapan tehnik distraksi dan relaksasi untuk mengurangi rasa nyeri akibat dari fraktur femur yang dialami pasien.kegiaatan ini dimulai pada tanggal 16 agustus 2023 sampai dengan 19 agustus 2023. Method: Kegiatan asistensi dilakukan dengan memberikan asuhan keperawatan melalui 5 proses antara lain pengkajian, diagnosa keperawatan, intervensi keperawatan, implementasi keperawatan, dan evaluasi keperawatan.pada kasus ini penelitian dilakkan dengan menggunakan pendekatan case study research dimana bertujuan menggambarkan penerapan proses distraksi dan relaksasi pada pasien fraktur. Result: Hasil menjelaskan masalah utama yang muncul dengan diagnosa nyeri akut dan gangguan mobilitas fisik, yang diberikan intervensi selama 2 hari yaitu dengan penerapan proses distraksi dan relaksasi,Hasil yang didapat nyeri pada klien berkurang dan mulai bisa mobilisasi. Conclusion: pemberian asuhan keperawatan dengan diagnosa medis fraktur femur dapat teratasi dengan menggunakan metode distraksi dan relaksas mampu membrikan hasil yang maksimal sehingga dapt dijadikan bahan sebagai acuan penerapan SOP penanganan nyeri pada fraktur.