This is a Technicom podcast.

In this Ethics in Technology podcast series, we have determined that how the role of ethics

should play out in research projects is not always clear.

And we have seen this in all of our episodes. We also learned

that the advancement of science as a whole relies on responsible research and sticking

to ethics principles. It would seem then that the most effective approach is to tackle ethics

training early on in the careers of the next generation of researchers.

And I'm talking about at the university level here.

But is this happening?

And does it work?

I'm Peter Ballant from Technicon, and today we speak with Elizabeth Oswald. She is a professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity at the University of Klogenfort in Austria.

Her research projects deal with the concept of side channel exploitations.

She's here today to give us a glimpse into the academic side of ethics and research.

Welcome, Elizabeth, and thanks for coming on today.

You're welcome. I'm looking forward to it.

While most of your focus is on the anatomy of side channel attacks, there are, of course, ethical considerations in your work as a researcher and professor.

First, tell us what a side-channel attack is.

Okay, let's perhaps start with what is a side-channel in the first place.

So in security, we are very conscientious about the way in which we argue about the security of a system. Thus, when we

define a system and its security properties, then we are normally very, very explicit about all

of the channels of information that we think an adversary has access to. And then we build a security

model based on these known channels of information. So a

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