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Re: Spitballing IoT Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Tue Oct 25 08:06:52 2016
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From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 06:51:11 -0500
To: Elizabeth Zwicky via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4246.1477383031@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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> On Oct 25, 2016, at 3:10 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette =
<rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>=20
> An IoT is -not- a general purpose computer. In the latter case, it is
> assumed that the owner will "pop the hood" when it comes to the =
software
> configuration.
Ah, but they are. In many cases you can ship a product faster and =
cheaper with an ARM based system running a stripped down Linux and some =
specialty I/O than building a properly hardened custom microcontroller. =
Source: Recently went through a round of proposals and bids for a small =
IoT type product.
Also, you probably _don=E2=80=99t_ want the average consumer =E2=80=9Cpopp=
ing the hood=E2=80=9D on their PC OS. They will screw something up. =
Worked in small business IT hell for 8 years, and that was the single =
most dangerous thing a customer could do.
=E2=80=94Chris
