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Post by cjm on Jul 7, 2017 7:01:59 GMT
Interesting! I really do need to keep tabs on what's happening in South Africa as well. I've actually been inside that building, a few years ago. That was before it acquired the IoT appendage. At that stage, we used Vodacom to host our servers. Vodacom seems to be on a roll
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Post by Trog on Jul 7, 2017 7:11:50 GMT
Interesting! I really do need to keep tabs on what's happening in South Africa as well. I've actually been inside that building, a few years ago. That was before it acquired the IoT appendage. At that stage, we used Vodacom to host our servers. Vodacom seems to be on a roll Yeah. To think, 30 years ago I bought a ZX-Spectrum from Joan Joffe in a tiny, seedy little shop - in Pritchard Street, I think, Johannesburg, and played chess with her son. Our histories diverged, after that.
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Post by cjm on Jul 11, 2017 12:45:21 GMT
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Post by Trog on Jul 24, 2017 7:07:38 GMT
theswitch.boards.net/post/8583A fundamental, major problem with IoT is the one of 'Trust'. Personally, I do not see any good solutions for this. Would you trust the guy who installs the IoT security system in your house? It's like giving him the key to your front door. Or even the login credentials to your bank account. Of course, I see the potential of building an absolutely brilliant system for managing all aspects of my house, and to add many more features that were previously unthinkable. But then I build it all from scratch, on my own. Very few people are able to do that, or will ever be able to do that in future. Almost everybody who is going to use IoT will do so with devices and systems built, designed and installed by someone else. With IoT, the ability to intrude into other people's privacy becomes trivial. I would guess that some sort of commercial/regulating/management structure guaranteeing confidentiality, similar to what banks managed to do, (or at least managed to create the perception that they do) will be needed in order for IoT to become mainstream, commercially.
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