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One of the leading thinkers in the new computing sector known as the internet of Things (IoT) can't help but look at all the flashy, expensive, feature-packed gadgets on the market today – things like Google Glass or the Apple Watch – and keep coming away with the same thought: too many device makers keep getting it wrong.
Given the nature of his chosen field, serial entrepreneur David Rose – who's also a researcher with the MIT Media Lab, where he's taught for six years – might be expected to want the next generation of connected devices to pick up where smartphones leave off. Indeed, that seems to be the nature of the race to figure out what the next dominant computing platform looks like, whether it's Facebook snatching up Oculus or Microsoft working to bring its HoloLens to fruition.
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In a book he published last year, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things, Rose sums up his hope for the future of technology: he wants it be dominated less by glass slabs and more by tools and artefacts, just like his grandfather's space was filled with.His grandfather, for example, never hunted for the one tool to serve as an all-purpose tool hub or for a tool that would eliminate the need for other tools. His shop was filled with hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, clamps and more – and they all enchanted the young Rose because even in their simplicity, those tools could lead to a multiplicity of imaginative creations.
The Internet of Things could also, beyond proving a privacy debacle, be a walled garden whose walls reach to infinity.
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(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday July 16 2015, @11:33PM
All kinds of stupid crap can happen when you put all your devices online.
agreed.
and so, don't agree to put all (or even many) of them online.
let them talk locally and with one of your trusted proxies or gateways.
default should be to deny public (outbound) comms at your firewall for all things that are not explicity trusted. it used to be that you want default outbound=allow and default inbound=deny, but now you want BOTH to be default=deny and only whitelist what you know is trustable.
oh, and no ip stack on a device is a good thing; one less thing to worry about and one less (very common) attack vector.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Friday July 17 2015, @12:01AM
I have no IoT appliances and plan to avoid them as long as possible. If it ever becomes hard to find appliances that are not connected, I'll promptly root any I get using my very non-IoT tools.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:19AM
Unless they start coming with their own cellular connections, wouldn't the simplest option just be not connect them to a network?