{"id":30774,"date":"2018-10-26T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30774"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:41:06","slug":"our-toasters-are-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/our-toasters-are-brave\/","title":{"rendered":"Our toasters are brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/our-toasters-are-brave\/article22972493.ece\"><b>Our toasters are brave<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, the \u201cInternet of Things\u201d (IoT), the term coined by Peter T. Lewis in 1985, is threatening to take control of the planet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, one of the first IoTs is perhaps what John Romkey created \u2014 a toaster that could be turned on and off over the Internet for the Interop conference (1989).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During 2008, the number of \u201cthings\u201d connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people on Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Cisco, 50 billion connected \u201cthings\u201d will be used globally in 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is predicted \u201cthat the worldwide IoT market will grow to $7.1 trillion by 2020, compared to $1.9 trillion in 2013. By 2020, it\u2019s estimated that 90% of cars will be connected to the Internet, compared to 10% in 2012\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Threats IoT poses:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, we must keep in mind that the IoT would generate loads of data posing a serious security and privacy threat.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hackers may exploit such weak spots.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Measures to be taken:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software must be designed accordingly and remote devices locked down as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to be alert while interacting with the new ecosystem of appliances.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The users of the IoT also have to be \u2018smart\u2019, keeping security concerns in mind.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our toasters are brave Context: Today, the \u201cInternet of Things\u201d (IoT), the term coined by Peter T. Lewis in 1985, is threatening to take control of the planet. Background: Interestingly, one of the first IoTs is perhaps what John Romkey created \u2014 a toaster that could be turned on and off over the Internet for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/our-toasters-are-brave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our toasters are brave<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704700907},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}