tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post7278779006041666232..comments2024-03-28T16:31:54.494-04:00Comments on Borepatch: Internet Of Things "Security" device wipes out your securityBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-89667757580381114722016-02-29T21:47:01.975-05:002016-02-29T21:47:01.975-05:00The Internet of Things falls into a few categories...The Internet of Things falls into a few categories:<br />1) Devices that are to be used against you.<br /> Example: The "Smart Meters", which form a 'mesh' network, and can be turned off remotely to 'save power', etc. Expect them to first be 'voluntary', and then 'manditory'.<br /><br />2) Devices that function like the extension of the supermarket loyalty card.<br /> Example: The "Smart refrigerator" which keeps track of your diet, what's inside, and what your ordering from the supermarket. All helpfully passed onto 3rd party marketeers. You are the product being sold.<br /><br />3) Devices that monitor you for 3rd parties. <br /> Examples: Smart TVs & Consoles. The smart device watches you, while you watch it. I've read that some refuse to work if they are unplugged from the internet (I think one example was LG TV). I've also read that the manufacturers have worked on image recognition, so they can keep track of who comes & goes during which program segments, to help tailor the audience for advertisers.<br /><br />Obviously, I'm a Luddite, and have none of these devices. But I also don't believe that my personal life is any business of an uninvited 3rd party.<br /><br />-- SteveSteve Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00626594557764599205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-71366143947326160242016-02-29T16:50:15.670-05:002016-02-29T16:50:15.670-05:00I developed a profound distrust for Internet Thing...I developed a profound distrust for Internet Things when I worked on one a couple of years back, pondered how to handle various necessary features right, and realized that it would be all too easy to handle them wrong (maliciously or otherwise) and have a bunch of ill-behaved net-connected computers deployed inside people's firewalls.<br />The one I was working on (the company went bust early on) was meant to have strong privacy protections, and <i>of course</i> we would have informed the customers of the ways the devices were to communicate with the service... but it seems that so informing customers is not so obvious to a lot of the vendors out there.<br />Should I find it necessary to deploy other people's IoT gadgets on my next network, I think I'll give them a network of their own, with carefully restricted access to anything but each other.Eric Wilnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351991168469225129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-25948463154354179252016-02-29T13:08:42.471-05:002016-02-29T13:08:42.471-05:00Oh isn't THAT lovely...Oh isn't THAT lovely... Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.com