Re: IoT security, was Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

I don't know why it's "sub optimal" to use the cloud from an isolated network. Can you elaborate?

 -mel beckman

> On Oct 9, 2016, at 10:28 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:31:54 -0000, Mel Beckman said:
>
> > I just bought a $20 Lacrosse remote RF temperature sensor hub for home, the
> > GW-1000U. It does the usual IoT things: after you plug it in, it gets a DHCP
> > address and phones home, then you register it using a smartphone on the same
> > LAN, which I'm guessing finds the device via a broadcast and then configures
> > the hub with my Lacrosse account info. All communication is thereafter through
> > the cloud.
>
> That last sentence is sub-optimal.  And as you note, things go downhill from
> there....