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The IoT blame game

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The first Friday the thirteenth of any year is officially “Blame Someone Else Day.” What a delightful thought – that all the failures, inconsistencies, and ill-advised schemes hatched in the previous 12 months could be legitimately handed off to that universal sink of all blame: “someone else.” After all, apportioning blame helps us deal with the event itself – it turns the unmanageable into the explicable – taking away the sting of the event, and … More → Continue reading The IoT blame game→

The security impact of IoT evolution

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Francis Bacon, First Viscount St. Alban (1561 – 1626), wrote, “As the births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.” While this probably doesn’t speak well of Viscount Bacon’s opinion of babies, it should give us pause as we think about the likely shape, and impact, of the IoT. Things, after all, rarely turn out the way we expect them to, and in the case … More → Continue reading The security impact of IoT evolution→