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Security Challenges of the EPCglobal Network

By Benjamin Fabian, Oliver GÜnther
Communications of the ACM, July 2009, Vol. 52 No. 7, Pages 121-125
10.1145/1538788.1538816
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The "Internet of Things," once reality, will have to rely on a global IT infrastructure that provides information about all those "things" in a secure and reliable manner. The EPCglobal Network is a proposal for a widely distributed information system to offer such services. But it may introduce more challenges concerning security, privacy, and political control than was initially anticipated.

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