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Hello, my name is Frank Stajano, I’m affiliated with AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, and I’m doing a Ph.D. at the Computer Lab. Today I am going to talk about the radio thermometer as an example of a wireless gadget that one might want to have talking with other wireless gadgets. I’m a bit of a gadget freak myself and I also have plenty of wire coming out of my pockets. It would be advantageous for some of these things to be able to talk to each other. You have a swarm of devices like this and you might imagine, for example, that I take a picture with this camera – this is not one of these models that have voice annotation but you may have seen there are some that do – and I say, “This was the security protocols workshop in Cambridge”. It is stupid for the camera to have to incorporate the microphone and digital audio hardware when this is already in my audio recorder (which has to have it because of its …