[192007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IoT security, was Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Sun Oct 9 14:05:25 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:05:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <218440.1476034120@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I don't know why it's "sub optimal" to use the cloud from an isolated netwo=
rk. Can you elaborate?
-mel beckman
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 10:28 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@=
vt.edu> wrote:
>=20
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:31:54 -0000, Mel Beckman said:
>=20
>> 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 config=
ures
>> the hub with my Lacrosse account info. All communication is thereafter t=
hrough
>> the cloud.
>=20
> That last sentence is sub-optimal. And as you note, things go downhill f=
rom
> there....
