We're Surrounded by Billions of Internet-Connected Devices. Can We Trust Them?
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#2Every time I try to buy some device that is LAN only and doesn't talk to the net, ever, I usually find zero options or few crappy, expensive choices. Why anyone would install a camera that then talks to some corporation's cloud is beyond me, I have zero interest in that.
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#3Betterridge's law of headlines strikes again: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
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#5IOT devices use standard, commonly available boards and chips, which are meant for widely varied applications, so offer wifi/Internet connectivity easily. So companies can add that "feature" painlessly by applying a snippet of (usually OSS) code. And collecting all the customer data they can is a bonus. No penalty of zero security, major upside if they sell it.
This is dangerous to all of us, even if you don't own any IOT devices.
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#7I don't think they can be trusted to be either secure or reliable or even supported. Any of them could be remotely disabled at any time as the parent company goes out of business.
On the other hand, at the moment they're mostly in frivolous devices. As they become ubiquitous this is going to demand EU-level intervention, just like the existing WEEE directive against lockout chips on printer cartridges.
Americans will be stuck with caveat emptor levels of consumer protection.
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#8Zero Trust. This is a basic network security tenet that was first introduced in 2010: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/forrester-pushe...
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#9> Can We Trust Them?
Of course not.
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#10I don't think they can be trusted to be either secure or reliable or even supported. Any of them could be remotely disabled at any time as the parent company goes out of business. On the other hand, at the moment they're mostly in frivolous devices. As they become ubiquitous this is going to demand EU-level intervention, just like the existing WEEE directive against lockout chips on printer cartridges. Americans will…
caveat the neighbour of the emptor, whatever that is in Latin.
Your neighbour’s video doorbell will have the easiest time picking up on your face, but your neighbour’s cloud WiFi AP will surely see your WiFi devices coming and going in WiFi range through the day, and how long will it be before Siri is listening to your upstairs neighbor’s footsteps and telling you they’re unusually quiet for this time of the week and maybe you should check on them in the mandatory gig economy of social care?