The Internet of Things (or short: IoT) is the phase of the Internet where physical devices are connected to the Internet, collecting and exchanging data without our direct involvement.
«Smart» light bulbs are prone to be infected by malware, turning the bulbs into contagious devices. «Smart» Bluetooth-door-locks give away their passwords in cleartext. Even more about insecure smart locks on 33C3. Experts are seriously worried about attacks on whole smart cities. And this is not some theoretical stuff: University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs and 5,000 IoT devices.
In short: these days, «smart» is a synonym for insecure. Please remember that.
Here is an illustration from Twitter which summarizes some threats:
Now, you might laughing about this image. Let's wait a bit and see how you feel like when people you know are dying because of malicious or not working IoT devices.
Articles tagged with "iot" are somewhat similar to my cloud articles. However, IoT is a special kind of cloud-related device. Since we face many bad issues with IoT devices I introduced this tag with 2017-05-14 and re-tagged older articles that are related to IoT as well.
Important articles of this category:
- Fefe zu den Gefahren des Internets der Dinge (IoT)
- You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud
- Don't Buy
and Run Cloud-Connected Devices That Are Un-Patchable
- German version of the article: Unsichere Cloud-Geräte töten unser Internet
- Die herrliche Zukunft ist gemäß Microsoft totalüberwacht
Recommended similar tags are cloud, privacy, security, and surveillance.
All articles tagged with iot (sorted by last update, oldest on top):
- Darum Life-Logging
- Don't Buy and Run Cloud-Connected Devices That Are Un-Patchable
- Unsichere Cloud-Geräte töten unser Internet
- Digitale Selbstverteidigung in Zeiten der Cloud
- Die herrliche Zukunft ist gemäß Microsoft totalüberwacht
- Fefe zu den Gefahren des Internets der Dinge (IoT)
- Going Back to Analog
- Tools and Tips for Privacy Aware People: PrivacyTools.io
- You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud
- My Dependencies on the Cloud
- Our Photovoltaics (PV): So Far, So Awesome
- Our Photovoltaics (PV): Numbers of 2023