[ale] IoT and Security

[Jim Kinney]

I'm having visions of the beer of the day subscription service. Every day at a time of my choosing a beer of my style choice is delivered to my current location.

Beer drone.

Hell yeah!

On April 13, 2015 8:11:32 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
>> If you're a coder, I'd say look at "the internet of things". That
>concept really
>> scares me! Not that it's a bad idea, but because coding people these
>days have
>> no concept or skills for security or performance. More than anything
>the IoT
>> seems to provide the bad guys everything they might ever want, free
>and on a
>> platter!
>> 
>
>The IoT scares me. Heck, I haven't even giving Roku my CC info because
>THEY
>scare me. The Roku is on the guests network ... think I need to push it
>to
>outside any of my networks, just on the Comcast 10.0.1.0 network
>instead on the
>WAN-side of my routers. The roku is only for APV.
>
>Currently on Netflix DVD shipping, not streaming. The back catalogue is
>huge.
>
>Read yesterday that free grocery delivery is common in London and that
>people
>would use a smart fridge to maintain staples. We setup an account and a
>weekly/biweekly delivery time.  Then the fridge could watch (rfid/bar
>codes) for
>missing important items like milk. If it doesn't scan a milk container
>in 2 hrs,
>order more (the type/brand we prefer).  Settings like that could be
>setup for
>anything.  I could see that working in dense cities like NY, Paris,
>even parts
>of Atlanta (midtown).  Provided the "things" have strong
>authentication,
>updatable PKI, and non-trivial online account controls, not certain I'd
>have
>issues with this sort of stuff provided their privacy policy allowed
>our
>transactions to be anonymous before sharing with 3rd parties - if
>desired.
>Non-anonymous purchases could lead to coupons and other deal offers,
>however.
>
>Just imagine - weekly, automatic, cheetos and std beer deliveries.
>Yummmmmm.
>
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