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stewarttownsend
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Morning All
So car number two in two weeks !!!! Drove to Sheffield and got back last night with a 2008 Range Rover Sport HTS, feeling knackered but having just spent 1k to repair the jeep and trading it in to take a total of 4.5K hit in 12 months !!! the boss is at least happy for now.
Back to selling and more selling, seem to have lost a kidney in last few weeks but been good fun.
Im out in the baby later on as the wife away and some nice roads to take a spin at night time over to Settle.
So car number two in two weeks !!!! Drove to Sheffield and got back last night with a 2008 Range Rover Sport HTS, feeling knackered but having just spent 1k to repair the jeep and trading it in to take a total of 4.5K hit in 12 months !!! the boss is at least happy for now.
Back to selling and more selling, seem to have lost a kidney in last few weeks but been good fun.
Im out in the baby later on as the wife away and some nice roads to take a spin at night time over to Settle.
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Morning everyone.
On my way back from Amsterdam now. In the lounge with a coffee and a highly Tabasco'd tomato juice to try and wake my brain up. Not working so far.
On my way back from Amsterdam now. In the lounge with a coffee and a highly Tabasco'd tomato juice to try and wake my brain up. Not working so far.
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Cellomedia? DMC?
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Conference - Connections Europe. Mainly Internet of Things / connected home but with a healthy dose of multiscreen TV, which is my thing. I was on a panel yesterday which was fun.
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Interesting - security of such things is my errr thing. Most consumer connected home things have almost no worthwhile security - your chaps interested in talking about that Adam?
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Sort of in the news at the moment with the baby monitors & web-cams exposed on a Russian website. I've always been a sceptic for the Internet of things, but it looks like it's going to happen one way or another...watches, thermostats, in-car stuff, pet feeders, home security, garage doors, lighting control, fridge-toasters...the list will only grow.
And they can't even secure essential infrastructure controllers.
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We are in multiscreen now. Interesting.
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Exactly so - almost everything can be owned remotely with very little skill required. The "heating controllers over the internet" being pushed on the tv ads are pretty lax
It's the ICS surrounding Critical Infrastructure that I'm interested in. It can be pretty much secured, but only for a certain value of secured. There are almost always people involved, and they can often be the weakest link. Mostly though you are right - there's very poor security on such things, and the biggest problem is that it's generally seen as an IT issue. It's not - IT solutions don't work in this field. Got a virus in the system? IT solution = take it off the network, fix it, maybe patch it. ICS solution? Probably can't do any of those things... tricky, isn't it?
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There was a government wonky on the telly this morning saying that people with Internet-enabled CCTV cameras should use a password. No sh!t. But apparently many people don't, or just use the default password. The fools.
Security is important in what we do for setting and enforcing video consumption entitlements etc etc we do but we work with the studio approved DRMs. I see a big security market in the connected / IoT world for securing connected stuff like cars, monitoring systems and so on. Intertrust, Viaccess-Orca, Nagra and Irdeto all seem to be making a play there. First they need to spread fear and paranoia.
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Exactly so - almost everything can be owned remotely with very little skill required. The "heating controllers over the internet" being pushed on the tv ads are pretty lax
It's the ICS surrounding Critical Infrastructure that I'm interested in. It can be pretty much secured, but only for a certain value of secured. There are almost always people involved, and they can often be the weakest link. Mostly though you are right - there's very poor security on such things, and the biggest problem is that it's generally seen as an IT issue. It's not - IT solutions don't work in this field. Got a virus in the system? IT solution = take it off the network, fix it, maybe patch it. ICS solution? Probably can't do any of those things... tricky, isn't it?
Bizarrely my central heating can now control my phone. My house is excessively and unintentionally connected. My house has a bug, FFS. Bloody technology. It'll never catch on.
It's a lot of fun seeing it evolve. Eight years ago not many people believed that one day we would watch any kind of premium content via the Internet. **** came first (hmmm... too tired to rephrase that... you know what I mean), then some sport, then some catch-up, now it's mainstream. Done right it can be lucrative, too.
We should have a chat.
lovely, well done to you!!
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Spiffing! Well done Andy and Liz
Could be toasty in there Dem...
Do you really want me controlling your heating?