The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
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Re: The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
#2> Judging on research by Gartner and McKinsey, who predict that the IoT will add $1.9 trillion to the global economy by 2020, and $2.7-$6.2 trillion by 2025, we really seem to want to do just that. But why? The answer could be as simple as powerful: because it could vastly improve our lives.
Improve our lives or those who sell the idea of IoT and what comes with it (data) ?
I still don't believe what improvement it brings and if those outweigh possible privacy and security implications.
Re: The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
#3This article doesn't seem to address much regarding the "Internet of Things", and seems to just be addressing security in general. None of this seems specific to IoT.
Re: The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
#4TL;DR: Security is a big deal, and IoT doesn't do it very well. Solutions will be talked about in another article.
I found that rather disappointing, and pretty much a waste of my time.
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#5TL;DR: Security is a big deal, and IoT doesn't do it very well. Solutions will be talked about in another article. I found that rather disappointing, and pretty much a waste of my time.
Agreed. I thought there would be an interesting proposition for how to fix, but instead it said "We should really think about it."
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#6It's sad, but the first thing I think of now when I see or read about a new IoT technology is "what extra data about me does this expose to bulk collection programs and advertisers?"
Disney has some really amazing tech where a smartwatch device can detect what dumb object you are holding, be it a pair of scissors, your refrigerator handle, hand tools, etc. This kind of tech would be absolutely game changing for many people on a fundamental level, but when you think about what could be learned about you from mining that data, and then you realise it would be foolish to think that you can somehow keep that data private.... Gah, it just pisses me off that we have to assume any new info we create about ourselves digitally will likely be abused.
On the other hand, maybe once tech enables governments to know every detail of your life down to the most private level people will get fed up and things will change. Phone calls and email are one thing, but IoT means every moment of your life, every activity, every preference, every habit could be exposed catalogued and stored.
Re: The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
#7"Why in the first place would you want to connect every object in your physical surrounding to the internet?"
The great unanswered question of IoT.
Re: The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
#8It's sad, but the first thing I think of now when I see or read about a new IoT technology is "what extra data about me does this expose to bulk collection programs and advertisers?" Disney has some really amazing tech where a smartwatch device can detect what dumb object you are holding, be it a pair of scissors, your refrigerator handle, hand tools, etc. This kind of tech would be absolutely game changing for many…
IoT scares me for that very reason. I don't like the idea of people trying to infer things about me by how often I use my toaster, and I don't feel like I gain enough by my household appliances connecting to the internet to offset that privacy issue.
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#9"Why in the first place would you want to connect every object in your physical surrounding to the internet?" The great unanswered question of IoT.
Because we are lazy, and everyone hopes it will help us become even lazier.
Re: The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
#10It's sad, but the first thing I think of now when I see or read about a new IoT technology is "what extra data about me does this expose to bulk collection programs and advertisers?" Disney has some really amazing tech where a smartwatch device can detect what dumb object you are holding, be it a pair of scissors, your refrigerator handle, hand tools, etc. This kind of tech would be absolutely game changing for many…
IoT scares me for that very reason. I don't like the idea of people trying to infer things about me by how often I use my toaster, and I don't feel like I gain enough by my household appliances connecting to the internet to offset that privacy issue.
To me, that feeling is a fundamental warning that something is deeply wrong with the way we handle privacy in modern society.
It should be completely unacceptable that we have to worry about this.