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Home Automation Adventures Part III: Common Sense Things To Reduce The Home Automation Attack Surface

On Ekim 8, 2015 in Automation by Arden Henderson

In this blog, we'll cover simple common sense best practice things that Bob and Alice can do to improve defenses and reduce risk. By the way, these are common sense best practices for all aspects of personal computing, cell phones, web, and internet.

Tagged With: Automation, Internet, Security

Home Automation Adventures Part II: The Home Automation Attack Surface: Miles Wide and Wafer Thin

On Eylül 24, 2015 in Automation by Arden Henderson

Bob and Alice Smarts are very excited about their new home automation system. It is the very latest in the latest Information Technology consumer space, incorporating all of the Smarts' smart devices, tying everything together. They can adjust their thermostat from far away. They can view the security system's cams to check on the pets. The baby monitor comes in handy to check on Baby Smart, the newest of the Smart kids. The refrigerator keeps track of inventory and sends reminders. Their smoke detectors and home security system now work together, ready to notify at a moment's notice. All via smart phone. And on and on.

Tagged With: Complacency, Early Adopter, Electronics, Home Automation, Internet, Security

Home Automation Adventures Part I: When (Internet) Things Go Bump in the Night

On Eylül 10, 2015 in Automation by Arden Henderson

For Bob and Alice Smarts (not their real names) and their kids, such a world was not only hard to imagine, it was long-forgotten by Bob and Alice, and never known a'tall by their kids. The pre-internet, pre-web world -- if such a world ever existed -- would be a vast empty space. Boring. A wasteland. Such a world was no more real than the black-and-white, scratchy WWII news reels that Uncle Fred, flying in from St. Louis, tuned-in within thirty minutes of arriving if no football games were on at the moment. There is a room with a smart TV for that.

Tagged With: Home Automation, Internet, Security

Computers on Wheels

On Mayıs 21, 2014 in Low Power by John Donovan

In 1984 John Gage at Sun Microsystems promoted the idea that “the network is the computer.” Gage was a bit ahead of his time; the Internet was just getting off ground—TCP/IP had only been standardized two years earlier—and the Netscape Navigator browser didn’t debut for another 10 years. Today virtually every computer in the world is part of the Internet.

Tagged With: Automobiles, AVB, CAN, FlexRay, Internet, John Gage, LIN, MOST, Network

Keep Open Source Weird

On Şubat 26, 2014 in Open Source by Lynnette Reese

When I lived in Austin, the phrase “Keep Austin Weird” meant to me that Austin was special in a weird, quirky way. And I feel that way about open source, because as a means for expressing one’s self, there’s a project for everything. Seriously, open source hardware is branching into everything from prosthetics, clothing, and drones to dead cats...

Tagged With: Arduino, drones, Internet, Open Source, OSH, Weird

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