Re: [perpass] US intelligence chief says we might use the IoT to spy on you

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 2/12/2016 8:14 AM, Dan York wrote:
> To Ted's point, what I think we're seeing is a very large number of
> vendors pursuing the "Device-to-Cloud" model (section 2.2) of sending
> all the data back to some central application service provider, versus
> the "Device-to-Gateway" model (2.3) where there is a local hub in the home.


As email has demonstrated over many years, these are choices in 
operational configuration, but need not be choices in protocol.

That said, one might argue that SUBMIT vs. SMTP demonstrate email's 
moving toward a similar distinction, but I'm inclined to say it doesn't. 
  For the current discussion, the issue is equivalent to asking where 
the SUBMIT server is.  And the technical answer is: anywhere, and run by 
anyone.

I do not see a technical or operational reason for IoT to impose a 
different range of choices.

The business issues are an entirely separate matter, but for now the 
result is both a loss of choice in privacy /and/ vendor lock-in.

d/