Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation?

dkatana writes: As part of the UK's Smart Meter Implementation Programme, Spain's Telefonica is deploying a M2M solution, using its own proprietary network, to collect and transmit data from 53 million gas and electricity smart meters. The most troubling issue is that the UK government awarded the contract to a private telecom that uses a proprietary network rather than to an independent organization that uses freely available spectrum and open source solutions. Those Smart Meters are supposed to be in operation for more than three decades, and rely on a network that can cease to exist. On top of that, the network, running proprietary protocols, can be hacked, and "will be hacked". Only Telefonica will be able to fix it.

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Re:open source?

[phantomfive]

It's far more likely that TCP/IPv6 will be around in 30 years

Come to think of it, you can probably make sure a technology lasts by wishing it wouldn't stick around. Based on that, they should use IPv4 with Flash+Javascript written in COBOL on Windows ME. It'll last forever.