Re: [perpass] Tiny stacks

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 10/12/2013 12:20, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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> Its not directly relevant to pervasive monitoring, but IMO the
> worst security thing about tiny devices is the lack of s/w or
> firmware update. Without that, we're basically screwed istm. And
> we don't look like we're getting that, not even in proprietary
> flavours. Or maybe I'm out of date on that? Would love to be.

We're not screwed if (and only if) such devices can only communicate
with the rest of the world via some larger box. That needs to
include all forms of communication, of course, including near-field,
to avoid walk-by snooping.

Indeed I am not sure that's possible. At some point we'll need
to start suspecting give-away pens of being surveillance devices
distributed by the thousand.

     Brian