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Three Impediments to the Internet of Things

The Investing Edge

This post is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things, along with What Nest Just Did for the Internet of Things and Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0. Also, existing Internet connections provide for transactions, not negotiation. Security needs to improve.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Nov 9 - Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers , Roger M. All Things Distributed.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

MINIMIZING OR AVERTING ATTACKS The best protection against malware includes anti-malware and Internet security software. INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE Bitdefender Total Security (2014) Norton Internet Security (2014) Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security (2014) Kaspersky Internet Security (2014) McAfee Internet Security (2014) Table 2.

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The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book

Crafty CTO

A Book Encounter While browsing the lake house bookshelves, John stumbled across Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices and was immediately hooked. Self-Publishing Pre-internet, every successful mail order business was also a publishing business, because—catalogs. I did not quickly locate Bull Cook online.

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If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail

Vox

The story was apparently deleted from the internet for unknown reasons, though not before it was picked up by other outlets. But the news is a reminder that there is little in the way of clear agreement about how the world should handle an authenticated message from an apparent alien civilization, or whether it can even be done safely.

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Liveblog: Hybrid Architectures, Bridging the Gap to the Cloud

Scott Lowe

IAM offers fine-grained access for AWS resources, offers multi-factor authentication for highly privileged users, and can integrate with corporate directories. In this particular instance, the customer was using CommVault, and was able to leverage CommVault’s S3 integration to back data up to S3 directly over the Internet.

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The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area

GeekWire

For consumers, more efficient search has a long history which includes Google’s knowledge panels (2012), featured snippets at the top of the search result page (2014), voice assistants such as Alexa (2014), and now ChatGPT. In response, I have argued for a stronger role for digital authentication of identity (who actually wrote that message?)

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