IoT: Your thought and views
June 30, 2018 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2018 at 9:05 am by oldpollock.)
Recently I had the dubious pleasure of attending a Micro$ucks boot camp for IoT.
This event was all about their Azure and related products. I was appalled at the amount of
personal (On the consumer side) information M$ collects and the caviler attitude towards privacy concerns, which I have always
suspected/known.
I pointed out to the instructors that from a business perspective IoT can have some really cool and practical applications, but
from a consumer perspective it scares the hell out of me. I pointed out that with a house with complete
inter connectivity of IoT, from the door locks on, I could see some really frightening and horrendous things happening.
I concluded this small rant with the observation that just because you can doesn't mean you should.
The resulting silence and looks (Kinda like the looks I get from talibangelists when I challenge their beliefs) from the instructors was telling.
So in short I'm not a fan of IoT for anything but industry and think this shit should be regulated out the ass.
Just my idle thoughts on this tech.
Edit: I should have prefaced this with the disclosure that I'm an engineer in the computer industry.
This event was all about their Azure and related products. I was appalled at the amount of
personal (On the consumer side) information M$ collects and the caviler attitude towards privacy concerns, which I have always
suspected/known.
I pointed out to the instructors that from a business perspective IoT can have some really cool and practical applications, but
from a consumer perspective it scares the hell out of me. I pointed out that with a house with complete
inter connectivity of IoT, from the door locks on, I could see some really frightening and horrendous things happening.
I concluded this small rant with the observation that just because you can doesn't mean you should.
The resulting silence and looks (Kinda like the looks I get from talibangelists when I challenge their beliefs) from the instructors was telling.
So in short I'm not a fan of IoT for anything but industry and think this shit should be regulated out the ass.
Just my idle thoughts on this tech.
Edit: I should have prefaced this with the disclosure that I'm an engineer in the computer industry.
