[Chapter-delegates] Internet of Things

Wed Feb 10 06:07:47 PST 2016

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Mauro D. Rios <mdrios at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ENG] I think putting first and last name to the problem, citing companies or organizations, do not contribute to a serious discussion of the problem. What we do in this way is to delve deeper irrational fanaticism on trade policies of large companies. We could say that one of the mentioned Eric uses a slave company to manufacture its devices icons. So we could be fattening the list of objections, but without further discussion of the problem.
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My mistake for that. I agree, a particular company might have other connotations. The point was about business models in the abstract. My apologies.
> Spying is not the only thing that makes me repudiate a company, also abusive pricing practices, where a user pays $ 1,000 a device that manufacture cost only $ 25.
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Two things on cost. The first is the bulk of the value of electronics and software is not manufacturing costs (the $25), but development costs. For example, the price of an Intel CPU is roughly USD 500. The manufacturing cost for a single CPU is on the order of USD 0.00001 (the sand that goes into the wafer). However, it costs USD 3,000,000,000 to build the plant to manufacture the CPU and about USD 1,500,000,000 to design the CPU. Just because the manufacturing cost is USD 0.00001 does not mean a fair price is USD 0.00002. Someone has to pay for the fixed capital costs of production and, more relevant to, for example, software, the costs of development.

> Or the company that blocks the repair of one of its devices to generate exorbitant money on their official repair centers.
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I cannot speak outside the U.S., but this is expressly against the law in the United States. See the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act.

> Or the company that patents blocking technologies or innovative devices that change the industry, simply because this was not the company that manufactures or to which it occurred to invent it.
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Patenting X and claiming it covers Y is evil (and fixing that keeps me in business). However, if you invent X and patent X, you get exclusive rights to X in exchange for explaining the world how to build X. Society expects that Y then gets invented, and society is better off. Many countries like that bargain, giving exclusive, time-limited rights in exchange for advancing the state of the art.
> So the Internet of Things have many faces, like a dodecahedron, each face we watch, step by step, and the firmness to defend freedom of the network and users, protect privacy. But all this from an objective and non-fanatical vision that does not help our interests as an organization.
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> The technology today allows develop tools to limit, mitigate or nullify the chances of spy through devices, then let the fanatical philosophy against a company, other or all, and get to work to get open and secure standards, free networks and which we monitor precisely that are not being used as instruments of perverse spying of citizens. Seek allies in technology related to our objectives in this regard, organizations and develop standards, we improve existing, updated the policies and laws, from the constructive work and not from the spurious criticism.
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I think we agree - this is the opportunity for Chapters and the Internet Society.
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> [ESP] Creo que poniéndole nombre propia al problema, mencionando empresas, no contribuimos a una discusión seria del problema. Lo que hacemos de esta forma es ahondar más los fanatismos irracionales sobre políticas comerciales de las grandes empresas. Bien podríamos decir que una de las que menciona Eric, utiliza una empresa esclavista para la fabricación de sus dispositivos íconos. Así podríamos estar engordando la lista de objeciones, pero sin profundizar la discusión del problema.
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> No necesariamente el espionaje me hace repudiar una empresa, también las prácticas abusivas de precios, donde un usuario paga $1000 un dispositivo que costó fabricarlo sólo $25. O aquella empresa que bloquea la reparación de uno de sus dispositivos para generar ingresos exorbitantes en sus centros oficiales de reparación. O aquella empresa que bloquea patentes de tecnologías o dispositivos innovadores que cambiarían la industria, simplemente porque no fue ésta empresa la que lo fabrica o a la que se le ocurrió inventarlo.
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> Así que el Internet de las cosas tiene muchas caras, como un dodecaedro, deberemos atender cada una de ellas paso a paso y con la firmeza de defender la libertad de la red y de los usuarios, proteger la privacidad. Pero todo ello desde una visión objetiva y no fanática que no ayuda a nuestros intereses como organización.
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> La tecnología hoy permite desarrollar herramientas que limiten, mitiguen o anulen las posibilidades de espiarnos a través de los dispositivos, entonces dejemos la filosofía fanática contra una empresa, otra o todas, y pongámonos a trabajar para conseguir estándares abiertos y seguros, redes libres y a las cuales vigilemos precisamente para que no se estén utilizando como instrumentos perversos de espionaje de los ciudadanos. Busquemos aliados en la tecnología, organizaciones afines a  nuestros objetivos en este sentido, y desarrollemos estándares, mejoremos los existentes, actualicemos las políticas y las leyes, trabajemos desde lo constructivo y no desde la crítica espuria.
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> 2016-02-10 9:02 GMT-03:00 Eric Burger <eburger at standardstrack.com <mailto:eburger at standardstrack.com>>:
> It is a more simple question: does history repeat itself or do we learn from history.
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> History repeating itself: Let’s do something like Google that is so easy to use and so pervasive so the intelligence community has a single place to go to spy on people.
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> Learning from history: Let’s do something like Lavabit or Apple’s alleged “throw away the key” and make it so no one can get meaningful data to spy on people.
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> The choice is ours.
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> This sounds like a great opportunity for Chapters to be out in front educating users, governments, and developers about the right way to create IoT infrastructure and applications.
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>> On Feb 10, 2016, at 1:07 AM, Jahangir Hossain <jrjahangir at gmail.com <mailto:jrjahangir at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi Glenn,
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>> Thanks for sharing this news. Now this is seems to be interesting from IoT architecture views  . Is privacy dead in future technology ?
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>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com <mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> US intelligence chief: we might use the internet of things to spy on you
>> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-home-devices-government-surveillance-james-clapper <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-home-devices-government-surveillance-james-clapper>
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>> Glenn McKnight
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