More than three years ago my friend Jim Gettys, who worked on One Laptop Per Child, and on the OpenWrt router software, started warning that the Internet of Things was a looming security disaster. Bruce Schneier's January 2014 article The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable and Dan Geer's April 2014 Heartbleed as Metaphor were inspired by Jim's warnings. That June Jim gave a talk at Harvard's Berkman Center entitled (In)Security in Home Embedded Devices. That September Vint Cerf published Bufferbloat and Other Internet Challenges, and Jim blogged about it. That Christmas a botnet running on home routers took down the gaming networks of Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's Playstation. That wasn't enough to motivate action to fix the problem.
As I write this on 9/24/16 the preceding link doesn't work, although the Wayback Machine has copies. To find out why the link isn't working and what it has to do with the IoT, follow me below the fold.
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Brewster Kahle's "Distributed Web" proposal
Back in August last year Brewster Kahle posted Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web. It consisted of an analysis of the problems of the current Web, a set of requirements for a future Web that wouldn't have those problems, and a list of pieces of current technology that he suggested could be assembled into a working if simplified implementation of those requirements layered on top of the current Web. I meant to blog about it at the time, but I was busy finishing my report on emulation.
Last November, Brewster gave the EE380 lecture on this topic (video from YouTube or Stanford), reminding me that I needed to write about it. I still didn't find time to write a post. On 8th June, Brewster, Vint Cerf and Cory Doctorow are to keynote a Decentralized Web Summit. I encourage you to attend. Unfortunately, I won't be able to, and this has finally forced me to write up my take on this proposal. Follow me below the fold for a brief discussion; I hope to write a more detailed post soon.
Last November, Brewster gave the EE380 lecture on this topic (video from YouTube or Stanford), reminding me that I needed to write about it. I still didn't find time to write a post. On 8th June, Brewster, Vint Cerf and Cory Doctorow are to keynote a Decentralized Web Summit. I encourage you to attend. Unfortunately, I won't be able to, and this has finally forced me to write up my take on this proposal. Follow me below the fold for a brief discussion; I hope to write a more detailed post soon.
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