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A "Public Health" Approach To Internet of Things Security
New submitter StewBeans writes: Guaranteeing your personal privacy in an era when more and more devices are connecting our daily lives to the Internet is becoming increasingly difficult to do. David Bray, CIO of the FCC, emphasizes the exponential growth we are facing by comparing the Internet we know today to a beachball, and the Internet of Everything future to the Sun. Bray says unless you plan to unplug from the Internet completely, every consumer needs to assume some responsibility for the security and overall health of the Internet of Everything. He says this might look similar to public health on the consumer side — the digital equivalent of hand washing — and involve an open, opt-in model for the rapid detection of abnormal trends across global organizations and networks.
When the masses decided on gaming, we went from games like Origin's with new IP every few months, to games that cost ten times as much (if you factor the DLC required) and are the same IP as last year. They decided that waiting a little bit more for a relatively bug-free version of a game isn't worth it, making the game industry with its, "it compiles, ship it!" mantra the de facto standard of today.
When the masses decided on smartphones, they went from units that had a week of battery life and had a nice slider keyboard (which was quite useful when doing SSH tasks) to error-prone tapping on a touchscreen, and battery life that doesn't last a workday. Yes, newer smartphones are so thin, they only have one side, but so much was sacrificed so that the devices can be thin, as well as run the latest version of real time rendered Chainsaw Crush at 60 FPS. It would be nice to not have as powerful a CPU in return for a phone that can easily fit in a standard pocket.
When the masses decided on what the Internet looks like, out went newsgroups, mailing lists, Web forums, and IRC. In return, we have Facebook, and Twitter.