My door sensor does not need 128 bits of encryption. it needs to talk to a hub inside my home unencrypted, and then the link out from there needs to be secure. The problem is all these "experts" dont have a clue at all about all of this and are clamoring that we need heavy security on everything! ZOMG!!!
Perhaps they're thinking that all this stuff will mostly likely be wireless and as accessible to your neighbor or from the street outside your house as to whatever it's supposed to be talking to. While major appliances might get dedicated wire, unless they do network over power, they're probably not going to wire for every place you might put a lamp or toaster.
My boss asked me "What is IoT?", so I explained it to her. I told her it was a collection of "smart" appliances that are connected to the internet, so that you could dim the light bulbs in your living room from your smart phone, or you could adjust the thermostat in your house so it is nice & warm when you get home, or you could preheat the oven to 450 on your way home from the store. On the flip side, hackers could turn off your lights prior to a home invasion, turn your thermostat off during a cold spell so your pipes freeze, or preheat your oven to 600 degrees while you're on vacation.
More likely those hackers will route spam through your toaster, use your fridge as a bot net, make your oven a tor gateway, and make the computer that controls your lights host bit torrent. Or just use them to sniff household network traffic to find anything to use there and possible man in the middle attacks. For that matter, what's the chances somebody will use the same household password on all their appliances including the wifi router and home computer so that when they hack one, they have access to all?
I don't really see how "corporate hackers and industrial spies" can "make profits" by breaking into Apple and stealing data about when I turn on my toaster. "Corporate hackers and industrial spies" generally don't go after such low value data, they go after credit card numbers and corporate secrets.
They will be going after the credit card numbers and corporate secrets, the point is that your toaster would be the weak link in your systems. If they can hack the toaster, they can get the admin password for the toaster as well as the addresses of all the other things in the house. Form there try that admin password on something like the fridge. Most people will probably reuse the same password for all their appliances so they now have admin access to the fridge which has a reorder system for items keep there. Even if your credit card info is not kept in the fridge, it knows which system does have it, and that system trusts the fridge. There are other possible cases such as the IoT being a mesh network, then any of your home appliance is hacked, it can act as a man in the middle attack. Just as people didn't think about how phones can track their movements everywhere, there will be things that smart appliance will do that nobody really understands all the unintended consequences of.
They're getting out of the "slave/subsistence wages" business model. Walmart is in the process of upping their minimum wage to $10/hr (and taking a large financial hit along the way http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... ). They've already raised it to $9/hr. Moreover, it's not like Amazon warehouse workers get treated well. In fact, some say it's worse that Walmart: http://www.salon.com/2014/02/2...
Sorry, that's still pretty much "slave/subsistence wages". I had friends getting better wages than that twenty years ago in flyover states with nothing more than a high school degree. Still, the real issue isn't strictly the wages, but rather that they give people like my uncle as many hours a week as they can but not give him benefits. There's a reason that like fast food, you pretty much only see the young and old working at Walmart. They do not offer any sort of career type wage, even for the unambitious in a low cost of living state.
Currently, dark matter is the leading theory because it explains all the data and it’s also the SIMPLEST explanation.
Which is something to explain to the people who think that dark matter explanation is too strange. We've pretty much past the point where if the solution to the issues we are seeing is not dark matter, the solution is going to be a whole lot weirder. Even with something like MOND, any possible solution to these things by modifying the laws of gravity would make them so complex and strange that nobody has yet come up with even hypothetical laws that might work for our observations.
If they were truly intelligent species then they wouldn't be going around trying to conquer each other.
Really can't tell until we actually find out what it takes to travel between planets and what other intelligent life might be like. However, I think it's pretty safe to say that any life that has come into existence by evolution will be quite willing to displace other life to grow and multiply. If travel between stars turns out to be easy enough for humans to do it in a life time, I see no reason to think that we would do otherwise than trample all over any other life we find if we can. Hell, we'd probably do it while trying to preserve them. If travel is hard, it might even be more likely. Civilizations beginning by sending out terraforming machines thousands of years before any colonization ships arrive in order to sterilize and rebuild the existing planets.
I'd ditch the phone too, just not the rest of the pocket computer I carry around everywhere with me. Looking at the last month of phone calls, they're to my parents who aren't online and one call to my girlfriend when I needed to talk to right at that moment. Otherwise, for reading material, to do lists, communicating with other people (email, but Facebook is usually more reliable), photos, maps, etc., I need that little computer I carry with me everywhere.
no, it's more like saying your grandfather took a dump on my carpet and the estate has been dodging responsibility ever since.
From reading the BBC article, it sounds a better allegory would be my grandfather took a dump and my grandmother cleaned it up, but all this time later, the carpet still stinks, so they're getting me to do some steam cleaning.
What this article is talking about is the vulnerability of BMDI devices, devices that stream data to the EMR or receive data from it.
But if a hospital IT department, which is under resourced because of the declining reimbursement structure in healthcare...
Well, it probably wouldn't be an issue with Hospital IT, but Clinical Engineering. Clinical Engineering deal with the items that touch patients and send data to the EMR, and the may or may not even use the network provided by Hospital IT. Not that the issues with funding aren't still there if not even more so. IME, it is rarely them that make device keys or passwords "1234" but rather the vendors or users. Often such "features" as backdoors and hardcoded admin passwords aren't even listed in the documentation, and unless you get to that one guy in tier 3 support, even the vendor agents you are dealing with might not know about them.
If I were Google (or any other tech company), I would be more inclined to relocate to a city where my employees didn't have to live to live in their cars because the Smugville hippies and greedy homeowners have decided it would be a good idea to basically prohibit all new housing construction.
It's been tried. Unfortunately most people decide where they would like to live and then look for a job there, not the other way around. Google could relocate to someplace like Wichita, Nashville, or Detroit, but they could expect most of the people working for them to quit and only to replace with the local talent of the place they moved to.
Seriously, do you really NEED to be in SF that badly? Is it really that ESSENTIAL? If you need to kiss-ass in Silicon Valley that badly just to keep up your tech cred, just locate an Office of Bunghole-Tonguing branch office there and locate your main campus somewhere with available affordable housing.
Pretty such, yes, it is essential for those people. Most people want to live where there are things to do, places to go, scenes to be a part of, and people to know. That means moving to the popular cities rather than branch offices where relatively nobody wants to live anyway.
Being a normal foreigner, I find it disturbing as you Americans think it's normal to pay 500,000, 800,000, a million for homes that cost 100,000 to be built just because the greedy owner thinks he can charge a million.
A) If it was normal, there wouldn't be all sorts of articles about how weird it is. B) They probably cost a lot less than 100k because they were built a long time ago (as far as the US is concerned) in prime location and it is the land you are mostly paying for, not the building.
Point is that it doesn't require any new technology to do.
Depends on what you mean by "new technology". The theory is understood and probably does not require any more theoretical understanding of the problem (although there might be some new theories that might make things easier). It will however require lots of new engineering, development of new equipment, testing, and interactive refinement of said equipment. We are still figuring out how to land where we want to without issue, have never set up industrial equipment on either the moon or an asteroid, have never harvested industrial amounts of material, nor got an entire industrial supply chain working in space (probably by remote control) reliably to actually make use of the end products. None of this has been done yet even as a proof of concept. Just getting a proof of concept example done is going to take a lot of work and many decades.
if anything this "wreck the computer" attack seems less useful.
Imagine that you're a CIO tasked with protecting data worth billions of dollars.
Drop a few of these in the parking lot or cafeteria, and write off a few $800 Dells to find and eliminate the employees who cannot be trained to not do stupid things that will severely damage the company.
The police seem to think it's their job to prevent crime from happening, and they're bored because they have nothing else to do, and so they take great pains to try to predict who will commit a crime and take action before it happens.
I don't think that is quite true. If what the previous NYC police strike demonstrated is true for the rest of the nation, it's that police have become revenue generation for the municipality. 95% of what police do is issue tickets and essentially put a stupid or unlucky tax on the general population. Only 5% is actually about dealing with reported crimes. That they get to push people around and be a force of authority seems to just be self-entitlement for the 5% or just a bonus in their eyes. Parking tickets, speeding tickets, fines, red light cameras, all are not there it even suggest possible behavior and limit damage and crime, but to actively collect money.
Frankly, if we had evidence that there is a civilization with the tech to build a Dyson Sphere out there, I'd be terrified.
I'm not optimistic that all civilizations at that level of tech will somehow magically be all peaceful and loving. Life is struggle, and anything that "wins" at evolution has to be a tremendous competitor.
If there is a civilization with the tech to build a Dyson Sphere and there is only one of them, then it's a pretty good sign that travel between the stars is impractical if not impossible.
If an alien civilization had the means to build a Dyson sphere, why would they want to do it? By definition, they would also have to have the ability to assemble or disassemble large planets and to make them inhabitable and should be able to make as many planets as they needed.
Because gathering more energy from the present star is easier than trying to get to a different star. It's quite possible that the time and energy needed to get to another star makes it impractical even at very high levels of technology. It's sort of like why people live around an oasis and if they can't carry enough water to make it to the next oasis, then they just have to stick with the one they are already at.
It's not so much that the artifacts we have aren't pretty good, but that the fact that an artifact exists at all. If you discovered another planet with life on it, how would you convey the value of a meter? A second? Because we have defined these based off of properties, we could explain to them how to construct a standard without physically sending one for comparison.
In communication and giving them physical equations such as that for gravitational field, simple pendulum, gravitational and kinetic energy, and E=mC^2. Now, you have five equations to solve for the ratios between our units of mass, length, and time. Substitute in their own standards in the same equations and they have more than enough information to define our standards by however they define their own.
OK the average British bobby earns about 45k a year. Lets have 18 of them, that gives us 6 policemen x 3 spots which should cover weekends and 3 shifts easily. 18 cops x 45k gives 810,000 a year. Ok let's round that up to 1 million pounds a year. Assange has been there 3 years now, so thats 3 million pounds. Now I realize there's plenty of other stuff to cover other than actual manpower, but I'm wondering where the other 15 million pounds is coming from.
You're forgetting management and supervisors to those 18 officers (and there are probably more as they'll need complete coverage plus overlap including sick time, vacation, and other duties). There are probably also rented office space close by to manage their duties as well as space rented to set up video recording devices to have a record of what happens if he does try to leave and check to make sure he hasn't left. Add in people to run, observe, and check that video equipment. Vehicles on standby incase they need to chase him. etc. etc. I doubt if the just stuck a few regular guys outside and called it quits.
Never forget that a corporate lawyer doesn't represent you, he or she is their to protect the corporation and will throw you under the bus at the first opportunity.
Funny, I never realized that lawyers were part of HR before, but now it all make sense.
Depending on the corporate structure, you doom your career with the company if you ask for such orders in writing.
Never ask, just do it and send them back an email saying "I did X as you instructed me to but the problems Y and Z are still there, do you want me to do anything about it?" to create a paper trail.
Even as far back as the original Cosmos series, scientists were saying that the lack of a liquid iron core to generate the magnetic field was the cause of the atmosphere leaking off into space. Okay, sounds plausible but it has me wondering why it has to be liquid when lodestone has a magnetic field and it's solid.
And why isn't gravity enough to hold the atmosphere in? Or is the gravitational field too weak?
Iron looses magnetic properties at 770C which is hot but still solid. A liquid iron core has a magnetic field due to convection. Once it cools and solidify, the convection stops but the core is too hot to have a magnetic field of its own.
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My door sensor does not need 128 bits of encryption. it needs to talk to a hub inside my home unencrypted, and then the link out from there needs to be secure. The problem is all these "experts" dont have a clue at all about all of this and are clamoring that we need heavy security on everything! ZOMG!!!
Perhaps they're thinking that all this stuff will mostly likely be wireless and as accessible to your neighbor or from the street outside your house as to whatever it's supposed to be talking to. While major appliances might get dedicated wire, unless they do network over power, they're probably not going to wire for every place you might put a lamp or toaster.
My boss asked me "What is IoT?", so I explained it to her. I told her it was a collection of "smart" appliances that are connected to the internet, so that you could dim the light bulbs in your living room from your smart phone, or you could adjust the thermostat in your house so it is nice & warm when you get home, or you could preheat the oven to 450 on your way home from the store. On the flip side, hackers could turn off your lights prior to a home invasion, turn your thermostat off during a cold spell so your pipes freeze, or preheat your oven to 600 degrees while you're on vacation.
More likely those hackers will route spam through your toaster, use your fridge as a bot net, make your oven a tor gateway, and make the computer that controls your lights host bit torrent. Or just use them to sniff household network traffic to find anything to use there and possible man in the middle attacks. For that matter, what's the chances somebody will use the same household password on all their appliances including the wifi router and home computer so that when they hack one, they have access to all?
I don't really see how "corporate hackers and industrial spies" can "make profits" by breaking into Apple and stealing data about when I turn on my toaster. "Corporate hackers and industrial spies" generally don't go after such low value data, they go after credit card numbers and corporate secrets.
They will be going after the credit card numbers and corporate secrets, the point is that your toaster would be the weak link in your systems. If they can hack the toaster, they can get the admin password for the toaster as well as the addresses of all the other things in the house. Form there try that admin password on something like the fridge. Most people will probably reuse the same password for all their appliances so they now have admin access to the fridge which has a reorder system for items keep there. Even if your credit card info is not kept in the fridge, it knows which system does have it, and that system trusts the fridge. There are other possible cases such as the IoT being a mesh network, then any of your home appliance is hacked, it can act as a man in the middle attack. Just as people didn't think about how phones can track their movements everywhere, there will be things that smart appliance will do that nobody really understands all the unintended consequences of.
They're getting out of the "slave/subsistence wages" business model. Walmart is in the process of upping their minimum wage to $10/hr (and taking a large financial hit along the way http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... ). They've already raised it to $9/hr. Moreover, it's not like Amazon warehouse workers get treated well. In fact, some say it's worse that Walmart: http://www.salon.com/2014/02/2...
Sorry, that's still pretty much "slave/subsistence wages". I had friends getting better wages than that twenty years ago in flyover states with nothing more than a high school degree. Still, the real issue isn't strictly the wages, but rather that they give people like my uncle as many hours a week as they can but not give him benefits. There's a reason that like fast food, you pretty much only see the young and old working at Walmart. They do not offer any sort of career type wage, even for the unambitious in a low cost of living state.
What about "Because that's how GOD made it." That's the simplest yet and has similar predictive value.
Except that you first have to define god.
Currently, dark matter is the leading theory because it explains all the data and it’s also the SIMPLEST explanation.
Which is something to explain to the people who think that dark matter explanation is too strange. We've pretty much past the point where if the solution to the issues we are seeing is not dark matter, the solution is going to be a whole lot weirder. Even with something like MOND, any possible solution to these things by modifying the laws of gravity would make them so complex and strange that nobody has yet come up with even hypothetical laws that might work for our observations.
If they were truly intelligent species then they wouldn't be going around trying to conquer each other.
Really can't tell until we actually find out what it takes to travel between planets and what other intelligent life might be like. However, I think it's pretty safe to say that any life that has come into existence by evolution will be quite willing to displace other life to grow and multiply. If travel between stars turns out to be easy enough for humans to do it in a life time, I see no reason to think that we would do otherwise than trample all over any other life we find if we can. Hell, we'd probably do it while trying to preserve them. If travel is hard, it might even be more likely. Civilizations beginning by sending out terraforming machines thousands of years before any colonization ships arrive in order to sterilize and rebuild the existing planets.
Id ditch the phone,...
I'd ditch the phone too, just not the rest of the pocket computer I carry around everywhere with me. Looking at the last month of phone calls, they're to my parents who aren't online and one call to my girlfriend when I needed to talk to right at that moment. Otherwise, for reading material, to do lists, communicating with other people (email, but Facebook is usually more reliable), photos, maps, etc., I need that little computer I carry with me everywhere.
no, it's more like saying your grandfather took a dump on my carpet and the estate has been dodging responsibility ever since.
From reading the BBC article, it sounds a better allegory would be my grandfather took a dump and my grandmother cleaned it up, but all this time later, the carpet still stinks, so they're getting me to do some steam cleaning.
What this article is talking about is the vulnerability of BMDI devices, devices that stream data to the EMR or receive data from it.
But if a hospital IT department, which is under resourced because of the declining reimbursement structure in healthcare...
Well, it probably wouldn't be an issue with Hospital IT, but Clinical Engineering. Clinical Engineering deal with the items that touch patients and send data to the EMR, and the may or may not even use the network provided by Hospital IT. Not that the issues with funding aren't still there if not even more so. IME, it is rarely them that make device keys or passwords "1234" but rather the vendors or users. Often such "features" as backdoors and hardcoded admin passwords aren't even listed in the documentation, and unless you get to that one guy in tier 3 support, even the vendor agents you are dealing with might not know about them.
If I were Google (or any other tech company), I would be more inclined to relocate to a city where my employees didn't have to live to live in their cars because the Smugville hippies and greedy homeowners have decided it would be a good idea to basically prohibit all new housing construction.
It's been tried. Unfortunately most people decide where they would like to live and then look for a job there, not the other way around. Google could relocate to someplace like Wichita, Nashville, or Detroit, but they could expect most of the people working for them to quit and only to replace with the local talent of the place they moved to.
Seriously, do you really NEED to be in SF that badly? Is it really that ESSENTIAL? If you need to kiss-ass in Silicon Valley that badly just to keep up your tech cred, just locate an Office of Bunghole-Tonguing branch office there and locate your main campus somewhere with available affordable housing.
Pretty such, yes, it is essential for those people. Most people want to live where there are things to do, places to go, scenes to be a part of, and people to know. That means moving to the popular cities rather than branch offices where relatively nobody wants to live anyway.
Being a normal foreigner, I find it disturbing as you Americans think it's normal to pay 500,000, 800,000, a million for homes that cost 100,000 to be built just because the greedy owner thinks he can charge a million.
A) If it was normal, there wouldn't be all sorts of articles about how weird it is.
B) They probably cost a lot less than 100k because they were built a long time ago (as far as the US is concerned) in prime location and it is the land you are mostly paying for, not the building.
Oh, shut _up_ you whiny liberal bitches. 30 years of drinking the "...government IS the problem..." Kool-Aid has led us straight to this.
Get with the times, "..government IS the problem" has been conservative Kool-Aid for some time now.
Point is that it doesn't require any new technology to do.
Depends on what you mean by "new technology". The theory is understood and probably does not require any more theoretical understanding of the problem (although there might be some new theories that might make things easier). It will however require lots of new engineering, development of new equipment, testing, and interactive refinement of said equipment. We are still figuring out how to land where we want to without issue, have never set up industrial equipment on either the moon or an asteroid, have never harvested industrial amounts of material, nor got an entire industrial supply chain working in space (probably by remote control) reliably to actually make use of the end products. None of this has been done yet even as a proof of concept. Just getting a proof of concept example done is going to take a lot of work and many decades.
if anything this "wreck the computer" attack seems less useful.
Imagine that you're a CIO tasked with protecting data worth billions of dollars.
Drop a few of these in the parking lot or cafeteria, and write off a few $800 Dells to find and eliminate the employees who cannot be trained to not do stupid things that will severely damage the company.
I'd do it.
Ya, watch the person you catch to be the CEO.
The police seem to think it's their job to prevent crime from happening, and they're bored because they have nothing else to do, and so they take great pains to try to predict who will commit a crime and take action before it happens.
I don't think that is quite true. If what the previous NYC police strike demonstrated is true for the rest of the nation, it's that police have become revenue generation for the municipality. 95% of what police do is issue tickets and essentially put a stupid or unlucky tax on the general population. Only 5% is actually about dealing with reported crimes. That they get to push people around and be a force of authority seems to just be self-entitlement for the 5% or just a bonus in their eyes. Parking tickets, speeding tickets, fines, red light cameras, all are not there it even suggest possible behavior and limit damage and crime, but to actively collect money.
Frankly, if we had evidence that there is a civilization with the tech to build a Dyson Sphere out there, I'd be terrified.
I'm not optimistic that all civilizations at that level of tech will somehow magically be all peaceful and loving. Life is struggle, and anything that "wins" at evolution has to be a tremendous competitor.
If there is a civilization with the tech to build a Dyson Sphere and there is only one of them, then it's a pretty good sign that travel between the stars is impractical if not impossible.
If an alien civilization had the means to build a Dyson sphere, why would they want to do it? By definition, they would also have to have the ability to assemble or disassemble large planets and to make them inhabitable and should be able to make as many planets as they needed.
Because gathering more energy from the present star is easier than trying to get to a different star. It's quite possible that the time and energy needed to get to another star makes it impractical even at very high levels of technology. It's sort of like why people live around an oasis and if they can't carry enough water to make it to the next oasis, then they just have to stick with the one they are already at.
It's not so much that the artifacts we have aren't pretty good, but that the fact that an artifact exists at all. If you discovered another planet with life on it, how would you convey the value of a meter? A second? Because we have defined these based off of properties, we could explain to them how to construct a standard without physically sending one for comparison.
In communication and giving them physical equations such as that for gravitational field, simple pendulum, gravitational and kinetic energy, and E=mC^2. Now, you have five equations to solve for the ratios between our units of mass, length, and time. Substitute in their own standards in the same equations and they have more than enough information to define our standards by however they define their own.
OK the average British bobby earns about 45k a year. Lets have 18 of them, that gives us 6 policemen x 3 spots which should cover weekends and 3 shifts easily. 18 cops x 45k gives 810,000 a year. Ok let's round that up to 1 million pounds a year. Assange has been there 3 years now, so thats 3 million pounds. Now I realize there's plenty of other stuff to cover other than actual manpower, but I'm wondering where the other 15 million pounds is coming from.
You're forgetting management and supervisors to those 18 officers (and there are probably more as they'll need complete coverage plus overlap including sick time, vacation, and other duties). There are probably also rented office space close by to manage their duties as well as space rented to set up video recording devices to have a record of what happens if he does try to leave and check to make sure he hasn't left. Add in people to run, observe, and check that video equipment. Vehicles on standby incase they need to chase him. etc. etc. I doubt if the just stuck a few regular guys outside and called it quits.
Depends on the kind of engineer. Civil engineers usually do. Software engineers almost never do.
That's the point. Such statements as the OP make are usually some "real" engineer looking down on software developers calling themselves engineers.
Never forget that a corporate lawyer doesn't represent you, he or she is their to protect the corporation and will throw you under the bus at the first opportunity.
Funny, I never realized that lawyers were part of HR before, but now it all make sense.
Depending on the corporate structure, you doom your career with the company if you ask for such orders in writing.
Never ask, just do it and send them back an email saying "I did X as you instructed me to but the problems Y and Z are still there, do you want me to do anything about it?" to create a paper trail.
Well, I didn't mention my opinion as to what the differences between a game or sport were, merely my opinion on societies opinion on such was.
Even as far back as the original Cosmos series, scientists were saying that the lack of a liquid iron core to generate the magnetic field was the cause of the atmosphere leaking off into space. Okay, sounds plausible but it has me wondering why it has to be liquid when lodestone has a magnetic field and it's solid. And why isn't gravity enough to hold the atmosphere in? Or is the gravitational field too weak?
Iron looses magnetic properties at 770C which is hot but still solid. A liquid iron core has a magnetic field due to convection. Once it cools and solidify, the convection stops but the core is too hot to have a magnetic field of its own.