Brinks added a "smart" function to its perfectly fine safe, and as a result it can now be hacked and emptied with no trace. 5/n
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Car safety is most critical. Cars are already dangerous. Coupling car failure points at scale (what networking them does) is a bad idea. 6/n
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At the moment, there seems to be little to no oversight specific to connected, smart objects. But they are increasing rapidly! 7/n
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But this isn't inevitable. Planes are very safe because we made them very safe. We can make internet of things much safer. 8/n
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But the current corporate impulse is to not spend money first, just wait for issues to pile up. Really not the way to go with IoThings. 9/n
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Practically the whole car industry is using an old insecure bus system to connect all computers running the car. Why? Because they can. 10/n
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Hence: Industries adding code to products are now in the info security business. They should start acting like it. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/opinion/zeynep-tufekci-why-smart-objects-may-be-a-dumb-idea.html …
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