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If It Uses Electricity, It Will Connect To the Internet: F-Secure's CRO (theregister.co.uk)
New submitter evolutionary writes: According to F-Secure's Chief Research Officer "IoT is unavoidable. If it uses electricity, it will become a computer. If it uses electricity, it will be online. In future, you will only buy IoT appliances, whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not." F-Secure's new product to help mitigate data leakage, "Sense", is a IoT Firewall, combining a traditional firewall with a cloud service and uses concepts including behaviour-based blocking and device reputation to figure out whether you have insecure devices.
We use our toaster often, but unplug it when we're not using it. If our toaster was Internet-connected, would we need to wait for it to boot up before we could make some toast? Because if that's the case, I'll do what you do and buy a non-Internet-connected toaster or not connect it to my home network. (If the toaster requires Internet connectivity to make toast, it will be returned ASAP and I'd post a warning online to keep others from buying that model.)
Oh, ye of little imaginationne!
You'd give that 0.0005 seconds of your life up if that toaster had sensors in it to be sure that your toast was not burnt and not underdone *every* time you made toast. Ever stand there for ten minutes wasting away just trying to get that perfect slice? This is where you will buy an "Internet Toaster" and the tech will win.
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