Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 5, 2017, 8:50 p.m.
(45 minutes)
The internet of things (IoT) is just at the beginning of its development, but there are already various examples of so-called fails, which are not coming from the pen of science fiction authors. In my talk, I present current examples that I collected as a journalist and did write about that might sound like science fiction, but actually have already taken place. I am also presenting collected solutions on how to make IoT a little bit more failure free and more privacy save.
#IoT #Privacy #NetworkSecurity
Oh, smart, new world: IoT is where reality and utopia are close together. The first networked refrigerators that sent spam mails already existed in 2014. Smart TV cameras had been filming couples during sex in the living room and hackers putting that stuff on the internet in 2016. I collected these & many more examples of IoT-fails during my work as a tech journalist.
Science fiction writers would not do any better with writing that kind of storys. Or would they? Let's ask them.
Often, however, there are also less spectacular things, such as IP monitoring cameras, thermostats, fire detectors, network printers or WLAN routers that make the Internet of Things a real threat to the entire Internet. According to Austrian security researchers 96.8 percent of networked devices have security gaps. The devices can then be used by attackers to send spam mails. Or they can help to make Internet services such as Netflix, Facebook, or Twitter lame.
What does this all mean for our privacy when our data is leaked? And how can we find solutions? Are there any positive examples of how IoT can be used open source and with privacy by design? To escape this "we are all doomed" feeling a little bit more I would like to present a collection of statements what science fiction authors advice. Or would they rather prefer that reality beats them?
Presenters:
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Barbara Wimmer
A tech journalist, author and musician from Vienna writing about digital rights, privacy, surveillance and it security.
Barbara Wimmer works as a journalist since more than ten years. After writing for German music magazines and the Austria broadcasting company ORF she works for the daily newspaper KURIER and the technology website futurezone.at. Her main topics are digital rights, surveillance, privacy and it-security. Her first cyber crime novel named „The Crash“ deals with hackers, self-driving cars, big data, connected cow houses and the media and is currently still in the making.
Under her artist name „Shroombab“ she released several singles and albums in the genres of electronic music (mainly drum&bass and dubstep). 2015 she started an activist project called „music with message“, where she combines electronic beats with her critique about serious topics around technology influenced processes within society. Her remix-LP „We Killed Privacy“ got released end of october 2016. The single „Smart Lies“ followed in March 2017.
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