Hello! This week we start with Congress, where the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings related to interoperability and lock-in tied to smart home devices. We drew special attention to testimony by Jonathan Zittrain, who wrote a long, but … [Read more...]
Podcast: An update on Project CHIP and a secure 2021
This week’s podcast starts with an update on the Project Connected Home over IP standard promulgated by Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung. Then we talk about Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s letter to the Department of Health and Human Services asking what … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 18,2019
IoT devices will give a boost to PKI certificates: One of the popular ways to secure a connected device is to keep a secret identity stored on a secure portion of the chip and then check that identity against a certificate stored in the cloud. There … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 17, 2019
Google smartly walks backs its Works with Nest transition: After stunning both its end users and device partners by announcing the Works with Nest program will shut down this August, Google this week did what it should have done in the first … [Read more...]
Congress tries again with IoT security
Last week, four Senators and two members of the House introduced a new bill aimed at protecting connected devices that are used by the U.S. government. It is called the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019 and roughly the … [Read more...]