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Re: The concern with security
I think that teaching kids and encouraging their learning about cybersecurity and hacking will no more or less likely lead them to become black-hat hackers than will teaching teenagers how to drive turn them into car thieves.
dlr5288
3/29/2016 1:53:11 PM
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Re: The concern with security
I remember being in school and talking about the new devices coming out, maybe a few years ago. Someone mentioned security risks and honestly I thought it could never happen. Obviously I was very wrong. It's scary to think about all that can happen if someone can hack into your computer, phone, etc.
JohnBarnes
3/29/2016 7:26:01 AM
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About the "progress" in "analytics"
In the last section of this very interesting piece, Bartolomeo seems to lay out a pathway of progress from descriptive through predictive to prescriptive analytics. I suspect that's because he's often talking to investors (and journalists!) who love a good progress narrative. But progress in an intellectual area like data analytics doesn't happen in the way that is implied, with descriptive analytics becoming better until they burst their bonds to become predictive and then eventually surge on to become prescriptive. Data analytics are not a set of ladder rungs to be climbed, but more like the legs of a three legged stool.
As descriptive analytics becomes better, reverse-GIGO makes the predictions closer to reality, so that even without advances specificaly in predictive analytics, the predictions are more trustworthy. As that happens, those more-reliable predictions make the "if you do--->then you get" that underlies prescriptive analytics much more reliable as well. But all three were there from the beginning or they wouldn't be there at all. Descriptive analytics is your accountant telling you you're broke and about to be bankrupt; predictive analytics is telling you how soon you'll be bankrupt and how much beter things will be if you change what you're doing; and prescriptive analytics is solving the prediction table or equations to find the course of action that runs the least risk of bankruptcy, the greatest chance of becoming rich, or (more likely) the thing that balances those opportunities and risks most in accord with your values (which presumably is a scale running from "Whooopie!" to providing for your great-grandchildren to go to Harvard).
You wouldn't hire your accountant just to tell you you're broke (you might know already and anyway you'd find out soon enough); you want them to tell you what's going to happen and how to get the best outcome. You also wouldn't hire an accountant who only told you the "right thing" to do without looking at your books. There's an interdependency in all three branches of analytics, and they progress together, not separately, even if we usually build from the descriptive side first.
JohnBarnes
3/28/2016 9:05:14 PM
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Re: The concern with security
Once the IoT becomes smart enough, it's all moot. When your house simply recognizes you the way a human guard would, and can figure out that you are being held at weaponpoint or coerced or deceived into letting a possibly dangerous stranger come in with you, and can respond accordingly, hacking won't be such a worry (since the door will have many anti-hacking defenses) and the physical part can be in a hardened doorframe, where the bad guys would really have to get out the hacksaws and dynamite to go after it.
dlr5288
3/28/2016 7:49:08 PM
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Security
I like the fact that he states that when it comes to security there is never enough to be done. It makes me feel a little better knowing that is their mindset because it's true.
Security is a huge problem and should always be on the top of everyone's mind. That's one negative moving towards a more digital world. It's that much easier for hackers to get information.
faryl
3/28/2016 5:26:48 PM
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Re: The concern with security
I remember someone giving a talk on security risks related to viruses about 10 years ago and how surprised people were at the idea of the possibility that use of computerized systems in cars could be a security/safety vulnerability.
He gave a hypothetical scenario of using the new technology of connecting devices via Bluetooth at the time. It definitely left an impression on me!
Re: The concern with security
@Joe:
Very interesting point about kids. I believe it is a bit tricky situation. It is good thinking to bring kids up to speed with cybser security awareness. There is a very good chance for kids getting curious with both sides of the coin. Obviously we try to emphasize positive side of it. But eventually it would be them that pick whatever side as they grow up, not necessarily with negative side. But we can not rule out that possibility 100%.
Re: The concern with security
Good Point @Joe. It is very true that more focus and attention is for SErver side or Cloud security than at client / device level. This gap must be filled.
afwriter
3/28/2016 9:28:01 AM
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Re: The concern with security
Not that it is that difficult to figure out for someone who really wants in your house, but often times the physical lock is hidden on IoT locks.
Re: The concern with security
@JohnBarnes: Good points, as always. Maybe the way to go is to use both types of locks, to get the best of both worlds!
I remember years ago reading or hearing a comedian saying that he had six locks on his door but only locked three of them, so that a burglar would lock three of them whenever he tried to pick them. (Obviously, you and I know it doesn't work that way, but still funny.)
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