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Civil Drone Ethics and Sustainability
In order to solve the largely ignored issues of civil drones it is imperative to develop a framework that assures an ethical and sustainable practice. This paper analyses continuing ethical and sustainable issues, then reviews existing literature focused on these issues and their recommended solutions. Highlighted while reviewing literature was the common shortcoming of not considering that sensors other than cameras can breach privacy. Furthermore, a revised code of ethics/sustainability is developed and divided into the following principles: flying zones, data acquisition, data processing, and sustainable practice. To evaluate the code of ethics/sustainability it was applied to a case study of inspecting a solar farm in New Zealand. The case study showed the code createda non-invasive and sustainable drone practice. Rapid civil drone development calls for further development of this paper and related studies
SPAM: Secure & Private Aircraft Management
With the rising use of aircrafts for operations ranging from disaster-relief
to warfare, there is a growing risk of adversarial attacks. Malicious entities
often only require the location of the aircraft for these attacks. Current
satellite-aircraft communication and tracking protocols put aircrafts at risk
if the satellite is compromised, due to computation being done in plaintext. In
this work, we present \texttt{SPAM}, a private, secure, and accurate system
that allows satellites to efficiently manage and maintain tracking angles for
aircraft fleets without learning aircrafts' locations. \texttt{SPAM} is built
upon multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs to guarantee privacy and
high efficiency. While catered towards aircrafts, \texttt{SPAM}'s
zero-knowledge fleet management can be easily extended to the IoT, with very
little overhead.Comment: 6 page