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dcawrey
dcawrey
12/31/2016 1:16:38 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
@freehe I would have to argue that companies, especially big consumer players, are paying a lot of attention to security. Google certainly has. Apple is doing so. Facebook? Not entirely sure, but I certainly don't see a lot of spam and scam stuff on the site. 

The companies that ultimately don't care about security are going to end up having problems. 

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
12/30/2016 11:22:57 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
freehe,

Sure. But once the company experiences churn, does it handle the churn the way a pilot might handle brief turbulence ("already flew through that, smooth air now, be careful but keep going"); or the way health authorities handle a new pathogen ("all right, now we have to make sure that pretzels are heated for at least three minutes before being eaten, so that Pretzelaria won't cause people's hair to fall out"); or the way mothers handle obsessions by their children ("that's nice, dear, you know, if you feel that way about tuba, maybe next year you should go out for band").

My guess: we'll just accept a larger fox population in all our henhouses. Our lives are already unimaginably less private than those of our ancestors in the 1920s, for example. They used to print my social security number on my gradecards in college, and my first ATM card told me to "pick a PIN that is easy to remember, like AAAA or 1234, since it is very unlikely anyone will guess it on three tries."

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faryl
faryl
12/30/2016 12:21:45 AM
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Re: IOT rises continues
Right? I think some IoT functionality is going to "sneak up" on consumers - companies are going to start incorporating IoT enhancements into existing products/services without marketing it as such. That is, they'll sell customers on the new improvements & capabilities without getting into the technology or using buzzwords on how they're accomplished. For example, I don't think my mom would be very comfortable with everything a "smart home" entails, but I don't know that she'd see an Echo and think "internet of things", so much as a non-mobile Siri.

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faryl
faryl
12/30/2016 12:15:32 AM
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Re: IOT rises continues
I agree. I also hope the desire to advance the IoT doesn't get in the way of educating consumers about security concerns. People seem to not give much consideration to the kind of data that needs to be collected & processed for basic functionality, much less give thought to how it's used, if it's stored, what's transmitted to whom, etc.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
12/29/2016 10:12:44 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
dcawrey,

I think it's more of a triangle -- ease of use, capability, and security -- and very often the combination of ease of use and capability will beat security.  Think about the ecological equivalents: all the animals that live in predator ranges (because the grazing is better there -- i.e. ease of use, and/or resources are available that aren't available elsewhere), and all the things your immune system tolerates (because it's cheaper in energy and wear and tear to spend a few days getting over a cold, while sneezing and spreading it around, than it is to suddenly plunge into a coma, run a super high temperature, and exterminate every microbe that doesn't have a pass key, even though the latter might get you over the cold in three hours). Philosophically you're probably right, but inertia and evolution beat philosophy every time!

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
12/29/2016 10:07:02 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
dcawrey,

Definitely that has been underrated!

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freehe
freehe
12/29/2016 10:04:21 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
@JohnBarnes, I think consumers will always be concerned about security but many are frustrated and their complaints have not been heard, addressed or resolved so consumers will reach a point where they get tired of fighting companies to improve security and accept the security risks but you better believe if a security risk occurs companies will need to address it immediately or experience churn.

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freehe
freehe
12/29/2016 10:02:04 PM
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IOT Unlocking Potential
I believe the prediction may be accurate since the average consumer have at least two connected devices. At one time I had 7 connected portable devices so this prediction seems doable.

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freehe
freehe
12/29/2016 10:00:16 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
I am curious how the increase of IoT connected devices by 2020 willl affect the U.S. and global economy as well as the U.S. job market since many U.S. companies have sent jobs overseas.

IoT connected devices by 2020 have the potential to create a strong economy for the U.S. for all income level Americans if jobs are brought back to the U.S. and will allow the U.S. to compete with other countries in terms of technological advances and STEM.

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freehe
freehe
12/29/2016 9:53:47 PM
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Re: IOT rises continues
@dcawrey, I agree. Apple is doing great work, unfortunately most companies don't view security in the same manner.

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