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F-Troop and the 'Internet of Thingies' (Video)
F-Troop? This is an interview with IT journalist Tom Henderson, who managed to get a mention of F-Troop into a serious(ish) discussion of "Internet of Things" insecurities. And, says Tom, the more things we hook to the Internet, the more potential security problems we create. Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks? Hmmm....
This summary makes no sense. What is F-Troop? And who is Tom Henderson?
Starring Ken Berry and Forest Tucker. I guess it's better than "The Internet of Things, RFD"...
Oh, and get off my lawn.
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yep, that will be your ID-I.O.T. car.
>> Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?
Unplug, eh? Well I've heard about this cool new technology called "WiFi" that may someday replace all the coax and twisted pair cables that connect all our phones and computers today.
Is it time to unplug everything
Not necessarily. But it IS far past time to plug things in "just because we can" without thinking though the consequences.
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As per all comedies of this genre (good natured, but apparent bumbling idiots), regardless of their activities they managed to have saved the day before the final credits rolled. And while they may have been stripped of their ranks at a point in the narrative, they all had them back by the same time next week.
He could easily have mentioned Gilligan's island, Get Smart or Police Squad and still been just as wrong.
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I know it's over the top fiction, but last night's Scorpion was a prime example of where not to put computer controls. They had computer-controlled sprinklers. Duh! Sprinklers are designed to go off when hot. You don't need a computer. The fire would have been out in 10 seconds if they used old fashioned sprinklers. Doors. They had doors that could be locked by computer... but with no handle to get out from the inside, thus turning the building into a prison. Duh. Fire safety 101 is that you have the ability to get out, with crash-bars and such.
Of course like I said it was over-the-top fiction with a lot of silly stuff that would never happen, like windows you can explode out with a Bic lighter; but the idea is that there's a time and place for tech.
Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?
A lot of us never understood the point of plugging all that stuff into the internet in the first place.
Or, maybe the whole "internet of things" that a very small group of people seem to be talking about ALL THE FUCKING TIME is just an idiotic thing that isn't actually going to take off, because grownups understand that there are things that aren't necessarily meaningfully better (in ways that outweigh the new failure risks) connected to other things?
-Styopa
just like Hogan's Heroes.
(( who can get a Fred Kovacs reference in here? ))
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
So my remote died. Can I walk over to the TV and operate it by pushing buttons or twisting dials there?
So I unplug my IoT teapot, or refuse to give it my WiFi password. Can I still heat water with it?
At early stages, both of those questions might be answered "yes." But TVs have largely moved to where you can do little more than turn the power on/off and change channels without the remote. And worse, with some these days, you can't even watch TV without connecting it to the Internet and pairing your phone to it to use a downloaded app (sorry not for Windows phones) to operate it.
I don't want my TV connected to the Internet unless it's effectively read-only, and especially I don't want one with a camera and microphone watching and listening to me all the time. And transmitting same to somebody on the Internet. The TV should be, at most, a monitor on some other box that has the power to run a real firewall and AV, if it is used to view Internet-transmitted material.
I don't want my teapot telling Amazon or whoever how many times I've operated it and, presumably, made tea (or coffee, using a Melita aka (Starbuckspeak) pourover). //s/ Curmudgeon
Build a server that talks to the internet.
All IOT devices ONLY talk to this server via public key encryption. If the devices can't talk directly to the internet, far fewer ways for these devices to be used against the owners of them.
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Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?
No; it's time to unplug everything because everything is being used more and more to spy on us and violate our privacy.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I surprised there isn't more use of Broadband over power lines (BPL) with the IoT. Talk about seamless connection, and no way to unplug that lamp from the 'net if you want to keep using it - it's like built in DRM. And chargeable devices would of course have local storage that would automatically phone home as soon as you plug in to charge it. (of course most chargeable devices already have wifi or bluetooth, and only rely on this where those aren't available. Thing like a table lamp with a built in hidden camera/mic on the other hand would be made for BPL.
It's not only the state surveillance issues, it's the hackability issues, as the video points out.
Seems like a wonderful video that I would love.
IoT and F-Troop.
But I ain't watching videos unless I can speed them.
Sorry, it was you, not me.
Where Haley Berry takes most of her clothes off, it can't be a bad thing...
Oh wait, even with that Swordfish was a horrible horrible thing.
Never mind.
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What's needed is sensible regulation like:
all internet connectable devices must be able to upgrade the software components in the field.
all internet connectable devices must be supported for reasonable periods after last customer shipment. Where reasonable periods is 10 years for TVs, routers, fridges, DVRs.
Today it is ridiculous that buy a internet connectable TVs etc. and you get no bug fixes for from then manufacturers. We know that there will be bugs given the cost tradeoffs to be build the devices at a reasonable price and timeline but that is no excuse to not supply software fixes for the inevitable bugs that will be discovered.
Video seems to be playing at 1/2 speed. Noone can really talk that slow.
I'm not sure that is better then u check again