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

dan@geer.org Fri, 12 February 2016 03:54 UTC

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 > Yup - so much for the dire warnings about the Internet "going dark"...

The IoT will be why the percentage of the network that is dark,
that is to say unreachable, will approach 99%.  They will get their
addresses from DHCP4/6 and will be behind a firewall that will
prevent inbound connections by default.  The default-routable
customer network is history.

And if that turns out to not be the case, the world will then truly
be the traffic analyst's oyster.

--dan

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