[192010] 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 14:48:24 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 18:48:17 +0000
In-Reply-To: <227147.1476037837@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
The idea behind IoT is that devices collect data, but the power to process =
that data, and archive it, is in the cloud.=20
-mel beckman
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 11:30 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@=
vt.edu> wrote:
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> On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 18:05:20 -0000, Mel Beckman said:
>> I don't know why it's "sub optimal" to use the cloud from an isolated ne=
twork. Can you elaborate?
>=20
> Why should something out in the cloud have any part of the communication,
> other than perhaps telling your cellphone the current address of your wid=
get?
>=20
> (And *that* should probably have a standardized protocol/service rather t=
han
> every vendor rolling their own. Hello, IETF?)
>=20
> And even *that* can be bypassed if you cellphone is able to talk to your
> home network directly.
