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The Thing System

The Thing System

Posted Oct 14, 2013 16:53 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (guest, #755)
Parent article: The Thing System

You know why The Internet Of Things will never make it?

Cause it's best practice these days to treat *no* attached network as "safe"; you have to put the security right in the attached end device.

And since, as we all know, *no* consumer product pays any attention to security whatsoever...

I'm wrong: it's not that it will never make it. It's that the designed in Total Lack Of Security will burn millions of people. Possibly literally.

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Posted Oct 14, 2013 17:21 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

I don't actually this as a big problem with how things are envisioned -- because $the_powers_that_be want to "own" the whole vertical slice, all interactions happen via a central mothership owned by $MyGooTwitBookNSACorp. No direct node-node communications is possible, which greatly cuts down the attack surface.


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