SNS: Special Letter: Impersonating Machines: The Gift
Machines vs. Humans?
Identity
Enter the Internet
The Blind Spot
The Role of Machine Identity
Aristotle Said It Best
Fixing the Blind Spot
Scale and Speed
A Beautiful World
About Jeff Hudson
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Publisher’s Note: Everyone has heard of ID theft, and many of our members have either been personally affected or know someone who has. There’s no question that the problem is of pandemic proportions, and remains largely out of control.
How will it end? Will all 7B of us be the eventual victims, with our ID data floating around the dark web on pirate sites? Probably. What could be worse?
In this week’s discussion, member and security CEO Jeff Hudson takes us to a yet more frightening place, one which seems equally inevitable, unless we take steps now: the theft of machine IDs.
Doesn’t sound too scary? Member Larry Smarr recently predicted that the Internet of Things (or, as we now call it, the Internet of Flows) will have perhaps a trillion nodes – each a machine of some kind.
— Working together, at the speed of light, on a globally connected network. Now you get it. We should all be involved in fixing this problem now. – mra.
