[Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly

[eric.fedosejevs at gmail.com]

The FitBit and its many fly-by-night knockoffs are a great example. Its “food plan” app will probably soon have privileged access to all of your kitchen appliances. And it can even be used to monitor when the supervisor at your local nuclear power plant goes on his daily constitutional.

 

From: Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:52 AM

 

Because even something like a FitBit, if it connects to the Internet, can be used as part of a swarm for an attack.

 

From: Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:52 AM
To: eric.fedosejevs at gmail.com; interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly

 

 

On 3/26/21 9:23 AM, eric.fedosejevs at gmail.com <mailto:eric.fedosejevs at gmail.com>  wrote:

There are much worse possible outcomes than spoiled food. “App-controlled” smart ovens are now all the rage. Even if there are safety measures to prevent remotely burning down your house, what fraction of ovens in a community do you need to simultaneously preheat to bring down the entire electrical grid? Probably not too many. The grid is designed for small and continuous changes in demand, not large and coordinated changes due to an IoT attack. Once the grid is down, it can take a long time to bring back up due to a lack of investment in black start capacity.

 

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/06/madiot-home-appliances-power-grids/

 

Qt Co. is in for quite the surprise when new regulations are introduced and Agile development/subscription toolkit licensing are driven out of the IoT market. But is current management capable of looking that far ahead?

 

Agreed. I just didn't want to go too deep on the "why" said regulation is coming. Every country that currently has regulations on medical and SAFETY devices will impose regulation on the IoT market and it will be the same draconian (by some descriptions) stuff imposed on the human/animal life world. Why? Because even something like a FitBit, if it connects to the Internet, can be used as part of a swarm for an attack.

Thank God none of the nuclear power plants in America have any connection to the Internet. At least the control systems don't.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/6-things-to-know-about-the-2020-cyberattack-and-nuclear-power-plants

The electrical grid, however, is not so well protected.

I was in a 20-something floor apartment that weekend day when a Chicago power station detonated. Just a few blocks away from where I was at "they" actually talked someone into holding a fire hose and continuously spraying that power station to keep it from going up.

Power station may be the incorrect term. I didn't look up the proper name. Am to this day floored that someone could be talked into spraying water on electrical equipment with something like a Terawatt of power going through it.

 

-- 

Roland Hughes, President
Logikal Solutions
(630)-205-1593
 
http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com
http://www.infiniteexposure.net
http://www.johnsmith-book.com
http://www.logikalblog.com
http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/attachments/20210326/76edf278/attachment.html>