Cory Doctorow & Tim O’Reilly Discuss Security and Privacy in The Internet of Things

• Link to YouTube video
• They basically converged on the opinion that the most important thing for IoT is the change of business models from protecting the digital rights (or the rights to screw the customer) to the opening systems to customers in order for them to be able to contribute;
• While sounds good, the criticism could be backed by Open Source model - 99% of the code is not used anywhere and only a handful of OS projects gets off;
• Some specific notes (Tim O'Reilly):
  • IoT is not about devices;
  • The biggest impact is how devices will change what/how you are doing stuff;
  • Lets change the business model, not gadgets first;
  • Biggest opportunities are note new sensors, but rethinking the value chain for users;
• Some specific thoughts by Doctorow:
  • [39:30] Why not having agents with filter incoming information 'near the user', without giving that information to the cloud / companies, etc. (this is a nice idea, but difficult to implement);
  • IoT is for making people super-humans via low cost collaboration;
  • Doing sometimes can be more important than activism;