Greedy datagrabs, crap security will KILL the Internet of Thingies

By Andrew Orlowski, 13 Oct 2014
 
Opinion Is the Internet of Things a nightmare, a glorious utopia, or might it just never happen? Last week I was asked to offer a few thoughts in a panel discussion for over 200 PriceWaterhouseCoopers staff, ranging from hackers to business geeks.
I’ve only touched on IoT briefly, when David Cameron at CeBIT announced he was throwing a bit of money at it, and offering some new collaboration with Germany. If you recall, he gave a speech explaining that the Germans would do all the hard engineering bits, and we’d twiddle around with the websites. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Prime Minister.
 
It’s a subject rife with BS, and this was a challenging audience that can smell bovine waste products a mile away. And as it turned out, they had been thinking about this stuff a lot. In fact, it was a run-up to the Institute of Ideas’ Battle of Ideas Festival at the Barbican this weekend.
 
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