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Rivals ARM and Intel Make Peace To Secure Internet of Things (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the marching-together dept.

Rival semiconductor giants ARM and Intel have agreed to work together to manage networks of connected devices from both firms, clearing a major stumbling block to market growth of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). From a report: Britain's ARM, a unit of Japan's Softbank, said on Monday it had struck a strategic partnership with Intel to use common standards developed by Intel for managing IoT devices, connections and data. The IoT involves connecting simple chips that detect distance, motion, temperature, pressure and images to be used in an ever wider range of electronics such as lights, parking meters or refrigerators.

Some of the world's dumbest electronics devices get smarter by becoming connected into cloud networks, but also harder to protect. ARM's agreement to adopt Intel standards for securely managing such networks marks a breakthrough that promises to drive the spread of IoT across many industries, the two companies said.

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  1. Information free content by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is zero detail about what this actually means. Presumably they agreed on a protocol, but what protocol? What is the significance for ARM, are they going to add protocol acceleration to the next generation of the ARM spec?

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    1. Re:Information free content by evanh · · Score: 2

      AKA, a backdoor.

    2. Re:Information free content by Camembert · · Score: 2

      The article briefly mentions "Intel’s Secure Device Onboard specifications".

    3. Re:Information free content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      The "Intel Secure Device Onboard" (Intel SDO) protocol. Buried in the article: "ARM’s recently introduced Pelion IoT management platform will rely on Intel’s Secure Device Onboard specifications announced a year ago."

  2. It's a trap! by pak9rabid · · Score: 2

    Intel is the hardware equivalent of old MS. Tread carefully ARM.

    1. Re:It's a trap! by DickBreath · · Score: 2

      Use the superposition mod.

      Indecision on how to mod means you need a different pull up resistor. Or your flip-flop is broken. The up / down thing can be corrected with viagra or cialis.

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  3. Just kill it by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We don't need 'Internet of Things', it's a solution looking for a problem, always has been, always will be.

    1. Re:Just kill it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      it's a solution looking for a problem, always has been, always will be.

      Maybe it is when we consider it's most frivolous side like as an enabler of home automation, but we can't ignore the real business use as enabler of distributed data collection thru use of sensors and whatnot. There's money to be made there and choosing to ignore it is idiotic, to put it lightly.

  4. Dumb by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who cares what Intel and ARM do with their chips as long as manufacturers ship devices with default passwords, outdated software, no encryption, and whisk all the data from the devices off into some silly unsecured cloud.

  5. Solution! by Zorro · · Score: 2

    Paint the WiFi Chip bright Orange by law so we can rip it out.