IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - July 2017 - 5

EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO
KNOW ABOUT WATERMARKING
The subject of this article is the main
focus of this issue. Saraju P. Mohanty,
Anirban Sengupta, Parthasarathy Guturu,
and Elias Kougianos present a broad discussion of various aspects of watermarking technologies on applications ranging
from the embedding of marks in the multimedia information to hardware intellectual property (IP) protection. In general,
security is a broad theme that covers many
aspects including information security,
privacy, trustworthiness, and IP protection.
Information security covers the security
of data, information, and multimedia. The
system security may refer to the security
of the system that handles the data or
information. For example, how trustworthy is the system and how much resiliency
does the system have against side-channel
attacks? Malicious design modifications
and hardware Trojans can compromise the
security or trustworthiness of the system.
Side-channel attacks rely on analyzing the
power and timing traces of the security
hardware rather than breaking the encryption algorithm involved. IP protection can
be applicable for copyright protection of
information (movies and multimedia) or
IP protection of the hardware design itself
in this global supply chain in the social
networking era of the Internet.

USING POWER CLUES
TO HACK IoT DEVICES
This article is tied in very well to the cover
theme of this issue. Jungmin Park and
Akhilesh Tyagi discuss a variety of sidechannel attacks on CE digital hardware
that rely on physical exploitations rather
than breaking the encryption algorithm.

YOU WANT TO DO WHAT WITH RFID?
Katina Michael, Anas Aloudat, M.G.
Michael, and Christine Perakslis discuss various aspects of acceptance and
nonacceptance of implantable employee identification in the workplace.

security and privacy challenges,
including security in mobile-edge
computing, connected cars, and security
as a service.

PRODUCT SAFETY PERSPECTIVES

Katina Michael explores activities to
advance near-field communication technology for easy usage.

In "Product Safety of the Internet of
Things," Bill Bisenius focuses on the safety aspects of IoT products and provides
guidance about avoiding the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration for products that
track human biometrics.

REGULAR COLUMNS

CTA INSIGHTS

NOVEL NFC APPLICATIONS TO
ENRICH OUR CONNECTIONS

In "5G and the Internet: The Internet Versus Telecom," Bob Frankston presents
various perspectives of next-generation,
cellular network technology, 5G, with
respect to the growth of the Internet.

In "Working with the Government to
Introduce New Product Categories," Bill
Belt talks about his experiences working
with federal agencies as well as working
together to align regulations with industry standards for new products including
drones and personal health.

THE ART OF STORAGE

MARKET-BASED ANALYSES

In "Supersize My Pi," Tom Coughlin
discusses versatile usage of the singleboard computer Raspberry Pi.

In "The Crisco Effect," David Alan Grier
touts the importance of out-of-thebox thinking.

HARDWARE MATTERS

LOOKING FORWARD

In "Hardware Vulnerabilities and Their
Effects on CE Devices: Design for Security Against Trojans," Anirban Sengupta ties
in well the issue's theme. This article presents a selected set of hardware vulnerabilities as well as a design-for-security flow
for digitally triggered hardware Trojan.

It is a great honor to carry IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine to greater
heights. I would like to thank you all for
the opportunity to contribute to this magazine and serve our professional Society.
I appreciate the time, support, and contributions of all of the members of the editorial board and reviewers. I will be
chairing the ICCE 2018, the 36th flagship conference of the CE Society, and I
invite all researchers to participate in any
capacity. The theme of the ICCE 2018
conference will be cybersecurity.

BITS VERSUS ELECTRONS

SECURITY AND PRIVACY MATTERS
The column, "Security and Privacy Matters," also supports the cover theme.
Jong-Hyouk Lee and Hyoungshick Kim
examine selected aspects of electronic

IMPACtS

Errata

WAS THE JURY WRONG ABOUT
TOYOTA'S SOFTWARE?

In the April 2017 issue of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, the acknowledgment
section was omitted from the article, "Deep Learning for Consumer Devices
and Services" by Joseph Lemley, Shabab Bazrafkan, and Peter Corcoran. The
acknowledgment is listed below. We apologize for the error.

David M. Cummings focuses on product reliability aspects with respect to its
embedded software component.

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ETHICS
Sally Applin suggests that, as drivers
and driving are automated, ethics need
to be integrated into the controls of autonomous vehicles.

Acknowledgment
This research is funded under the SFI Strategic Partnership Program by Science
Foundation Ireland (SFI) and FotoNation Ltd. Project ID: 13/SPP/I2868 on Next
Generation Imaging for Smartphone and Embedded Platforms. This work is also
supported by an Irish Research Council Employment-Based Program Award.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2017.2697519
Date of publication: 14 June 2017

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