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

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 2/11/2016 10:39 AM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> any of the appliances are designed to "report to the cloud," and have
> a business model based on the "big data" that they acquire. If we
> design appliances like that, it will be hard to keep "big brother"
> away.
...
> Sure, encrypting the communications between the appliances and the
> cloud cannot hurt. But we should also look at standardization, so
> that appliances can communicate directly, or so that people could
> easily switch the "appliance monitoring" services. In the absence of
> such standards, we get lots of info concentrated in few places, which
> becomes of course a target for all kind of spying.


Yes, but...

First, tablets and, now, PCs are following exactly the same reporting model.

Second, the 'monitoring' is controlled by the original vendor and they 
have no interest in handing that control over to anyone else, no is 
there any groundswell among customers to force the change.

Standards work when there is a very strong market force demanding them. 
  We ain't got that.  Yet(?)

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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