The article below left me with a variety of increased concerns. Items such as personal, national privacy will all become far more threatened by the IoT than most netizens realize. The encryption that some companies are now doing and the the ability to set up personal data and communication encryption are soon to become dwarfed by what will be inherent weak and vulnerable security. Additionally, it will become harder to understand where these weknesses are most pronounced.
Again as netizens, we all must realize where these gaps are to protect ourselves, our environment, the economy and our country!
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Feds Eye the
'Internet of Things' as Next Frontier in Spying
FEBRUARY 10, 2016 12:37PM EST
James
Clapper this week acknowledged that agencies may use smart household devices to increase
surveillance efforts.
Be careful what you say around your home
appliances: devices connected to the Internet of Things might be
spying on you.
U.S. intelligence chief James Clapper told the Senate
Armed Services Committee this week that "intelligence services might use
the IoT for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and
targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user
credentials."
The comment was part of a larger report
titled "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence
Community," which also pointed to virtual and augmented reality and
artificial intelligence as potential global threats.
"Devices, designed and fielded with
minimal security requirements and testing, and an ever-increasing complexity of
networks could lead to widespread vulnerabilities in civilian infrastructures
and US Government systems," he wrote. "These developments will pose
challenges to our cyber defenses and operational tradecraft but also create new
opportunities for our own intelligence collectors."
As it relates to the IoT, Clapper
acknowedged that smart devices "are improving efficiency, energy
conservation, and convenience." But there are trade-offs, as "many of
these new systems can threaten data privacy, data integrity, or continuity of
services.
"The consequences of innovation and
increased reliance on information technology in the next few years … will
probably be far greater in scope and impact than ever," Clapper told the
Senate.
Government access
to the gadgets of U.S. citizens has been a hot-button issue lately, ever since
Apple and Google said they would encrypt their mobile operating systems by
default. The feds, particularly the FBI, complained that the move makes
it harder to root out terrorists who communicate via iOS or Android
devices.
A recent Harvard report, however,
suggests otherwise. Encryption doesn't mean the Web goes "dark" for
investigators, researchers found. On the contrary, it creates "pockets of
dimness" while opening up other avenues for spying—like the IoT.
Clapper's statement, meanwhile, comes as the
White House this week requested $19 billion for cybersecurity as part
of President Obama's fiscal 2017 budget proposal. "Criminals,
terrorists, and countries that wish to do us harm have realized that attacking
us online is often easier than physically attacking us in person,"
Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel wrote in a blog post. "And
with more and more sensitive data being stored online, the consequences of
those cyber incidents are only growing more significant."
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