Direct Connection: January 13, 2020
MPT broadcast with Richard Forno in long-form security/privacy discussion, discussing security and privacy, particularly about IoT.…
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Think Alexa Is Too Creepy For Your Kitchen? Don’t Give It to Aunty Mary.
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, offered a more optimistic framing of the WiFi-connected devices — the so-called intern…
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Google Home and Amazon Echo Can Store Your Voice Recordings. Here's When They Could Be Used Against You.
"“That’s pretty damning evidence right there,” said Richard Forno, an affiliate of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS). But when i…
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Hackers used a fish tank to break into a Vegas casino. We’re all in trouble.
Bruce Schneier’s new book, “Click Here to Kill Everybody,” explains the security risks of a new world of household devices connected to the Internet. I asked hi…
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How hackers can exploit devices used at home
"“The more we delegate, the more there is opportunity for hackers that make it a valuable target,” said Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at Stan…
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Experts Say Medical Care Next Big Cyber Threat
""The legal and technological challenges of the Internet of Things will transfer into this Internet of Bodies," Matwyshyn said, "particularl…
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Regulate That Hairbrush? Cyberlaw Experts Say Maybe
"“Seriously, a hairbrush? Do we really need that to be connected to the internet?” LeBlanc asked. Danielle Citron, a nationally known online safety and pri…
Opinion: How to fix an internet of broken things
The massive distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that paralyzed much of the web last week focused a bright spotlight on insecurities in the so-called…
When Toasters Attack: 5 Steps to Improve the Security of Things
There is a great deal of buzz surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), which is the notion, simply put, that nearly everything not currently connected to the I…
Giving Up on Cybersecurity
UCLA Law Review Discourse, Vol. 64, Forthcoming UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-29 Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a dramatic incr…
The Internet of Heirlooms and Disposable Things
Abstract: The Internet of Things (“IoT”) is here, and we seem to be going all in. We are trying to put a microchip in nearly every object that is not nailed do…
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Preparing for a future where everything is connected to the Web
""Security is not a Band-Aid that can be layered on, it needs to be inherent in the broader structure of the device," said Andrea Matwyshyn, a pr…