Don’t You Touch My Nuts: Information Hiding in Cyber Physical Systems

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) have been linked to serious security concerns in recent years. Research publications suggest that there is a potential to transfer hidden information through CPS environments. In comparison to these existing studies, we demonstrate that CPS cannot only be used to covertly transfer secret data but also to store secret data. Using an analogy to the biological concept of animal scatter hoarding behavior we show how to perform CPS secret data storage using smart buildings.