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The United States Department of Defense (DoD) designs, constructs, and deploys social and autonomous robots and robotic weapons systems. Military robots are designed to follow the rules and conduct of the professions or roles they emulate, and it is expected that ethical principles are applied and aligned with such roles. The application of these principles appear paramount during the COVID-19 global pandemic, wherein substitute technologies are crucial in carrying out duties as humans are more restrained due to safety restrictions. This article seeks to examine the ethical implications of the utilization of military robots. The research assesses ethical challenges faced by the United States DoD regarding the use of social and autonomous robots in the military. The authors provide a summary of the current status of these lethal autonomous and social military robots, ethical and moral issues related to their design and deployment, a discussion of policies, and the call for an international discourse on appropriate governance of such systems.
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Exploiting a Contact Tracing App to Attack Neighboring Devices
The recent pandemic fosters an increasing dependency on various forms of digital communications that support social distancing. To mitigate widespread exposure to COVID, the Louisiana Department of Health’s COVID Defense contact tracing application helps users learn about potential exposures to infected individuals. This research investigates the viability of using the Louisiana Department of Health’s COVID Defense application symptoms share feature as an attack vector. The primary contribution of this research is an initial assessment of the effective modification and distribution of a packaged JSON file that contains a malicious link. Secondly, it highlights the effectiveness of this attack through email, WIFI direct, and nearby share.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1754048
- PAR ID:
- 10479930
- Publisher / Repository:
- ScholarSpace - HICSS 2023 - https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102456
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9981331-6-4
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 3631-3640
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Maui, HI
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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