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Re: Spitballing IoT Security
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:13:31 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
My iPhone 3GS still works just fine,
I still have a "functional" iPhone 3G (no S). I don't think AT&T will activate service on it at this point, and it's been relegated to iPod service when I do yard work.
You can't *force* people to throw away or trade-in their old tech products, especially when, from the user's point of view, there doesn't -seem- to be anything wrong with them... like all of those pre- Sept. 2015 Internet video cameras.
Sure you can. Just make the tech dependent on "the cloud" and when the device is too old, force retirement by no longer supporting it. That doesn't force it off the network (unless the final command from the cloud is "shut off [your network interface]?"), but it makes the user much more likely to toss it and replace it with something newer if they still want such a device.
This is one of my bigger concerns every time I buy something that's "cloud controlled". Not so much that the manufacturer will force it's retirement, but "what happens if they go belly up, or just kill the division that supports my device?" A cloud controlled networked device, with no cloud, is not terribly useful.
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- Re: Spitballing IoT Security, (continued)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Alan Buxey (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 27)
- RE: Spitballing IoT Security Emille Blanc (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Edward Dore (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security -- Dancing around a solution Stephen Satchell (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Leo Bicknell (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ca By (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jon Lewis (Oct 27)
- RE: Spitballing IoT Security Emille Blanc (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Rich Kulawiec (Oct 28)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Geoffrey Keating (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security John Levine (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Leo Bicknell (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Chris Boyd (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mel Beckman (Oct 26)
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