Renegade is a Prophet and I think you ought to listen to what he has to say to you!
-wraith808
That's some pretty high praise! I'll graciously accept! Thank you!
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. It will get worse.
Somewhat off topic
I'm privileged to have some inside information from time to time, and I get to see some of what is coming to the market before most people. So, I'm not really a prophet, but I do pay some attention to what I do every day.
As I work under NDAs, I have to be careful sometimes when I speak. I have to act in the best interests of my clients when I'm paid to do so. Just today I advised a client on an issue in their best interests against my own preferences/ideals (I'm such a whore sometimes
).
The IoT specifications do not include any security at all. None. Zero. Nadda. Zip. Zilch.
Security in IoT is classified as "out of scope".
But the abuse there is just the beginning. It will get much worse.
In the future, quite literally - and I do mean
LITERALLY - someone or some computer will know whether you took a pee or a poo.
- They'll know when you went to sleep.
- When you woke up.
- When and how long you showered for, or if you took a bath.
- When you left the house.
- When you got home.
And those are just the absolute most basic things. Much more advanced information will be available.
Start thinking about smart fridges and smart garbage pails, and things will get very, very dark very quickly. And that will come. It has already been nebulously outlined. It is coming.
Every now and then people ask me about what I do, and sometimes those conversations go beyond the typical 2 seconds. I invariably tell people to "
RUN" when they hear "smart" or "IoT".
At the industrial level, IoT can do wonders (though there are nightmares there). At the consumer level, I see the nightmares far outweighing the benefits.
Just ask yourself if it is worth sending people to prison for taking a shower for too long. That is where it will go. People are too much busy bodies for it not to go there. People love to tell other people how to live their lives.
It ain't gonna end well.
Or people can just call me paranoid.