2018

March 19, 2018

Upcoming: Total-Body Virtual Reality

Virtual reality can be very immersive. When you’re “into” a game, it can be easy to forget that there’s things around you that you can’t see (and hopefully you don’t knock over a lamp)! There have been add-ons to VR systems such as the Sense Glove (a glove that allows […]
February 22, 2018

Innocuous Home Devices

Privacy is an important topic in the age of the internet. There are so many ways to find out personal information, it is hard to even know about them all. In an odd turn of events, your vacuum cleaner and activity tracker could be one of those privacy-leaking devices! As […]
January 19, 2018

Reduce Complexity for Better IoT Security

In my previous article (here), I discussed the problems with IoT devices designed with bigger, more costly and more power-hungry components that would be required to support a lifetime of over-the-air (OTA) updates to address the ever-changing security concerns. In this post, I discuss an alternative approach. Reduce the complexity […]
January 12, 2018

Challenges in Security Updates for IoT Devices

A few articles (here, here and here) have prompted me to ponder the question of viable security for IoT (Internet of Things) devices. We are all familiar with desktop computers, laptops, servers, and smartphones (which I’ll group as “computers” in this article), which require constant updating to accommodate an ever-increasing variety […]