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RE: Death of the Internet, Film at 11
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:14:13 -0600
On: Saturday, 22 October, 2016 17:41, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca> wrote:
On 2016-10-22 19:03, Keith Medcalf wrote:
This does not follow and is not a natural consequence of sealing thelittle buggers up so that they cannot affect the Internet
Problem is that many of these gadgets want to be internet connected so mother at work can check on her kids at home, start the cooking, raise thermostat etc.
This does not require that the devices be open to the Internet, nor does it require that they are under the control of an Internet based controller.
The problem is that as a novelty, people are quick to adopt, but don't think about making their homes vulnerable to attack. (consider an internet connected door lock)
There are many people who do not read this list who would have nothing whatsoever to do with such a scheme (earlier similar schemes are routers & etc that are programmed and controlled from the "web", and remote access crap which is proxied through a third-party web server -- another ill-conceived and brain-dead idea). This is a self-limiting issue. Darwin will take care of it. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage as those not fit to the continuation of the species are eliminated from the gene pool. We should do our duty and make sure that the pool cleaning proceeds with the maximum speed and efficiency possible.
Current thread:
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11, (continued)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Mike Hammett (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Mike Hammett (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 David Conrad (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Florian Weimer (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Mike Hammett (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Oct 22)
- FW: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Keith Medcalf (Oct 22)
- Re: FW: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 22)
- Re: FW: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 23)
- Re: FW: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Scott Weeks (Oct 22)
- RE: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Keith Medcalf (Oct 22)
- RE: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Josh Reynolds (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Florian Weimer (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Keith Medcalf (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Mike Hammett (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 jim deleskie (Oct 23)