The book I read to research this post was Security Of Things by Ollie Whitehouse which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. A while back I did a post on how it will be normal to have cameras that record your entire life and upload it on to a cloud provider with a basic package being free but there will also be premium packages you pay for. Of the biggest problem in the near future is being able to search with in huge amounts of data to find relevant stuff. This book takes it a bit further and looks at some of the problems facing manufacturers of what it calls internet of things devices. These devices can be anything from a heart monitor to the central computer on your car and they will be connected continously to the internet. We are looking at a world where many things will be controlled by your mobile phone. One major headache is security for these devices which generally will be applied mid development and may need to be regularly updated as potential security flaws become known. These devices will often remain in use longer than what the manufacturer intended albet by only a small percentage of users. Already we are seeing encryption like PGP or pretty good privacy which is a method of encrypting data that is very difficult to crack and certainly lives organisations like law enforcement a few headaches to put it mildly. Adding security to devices will inevitably push up their prices and companies will have to put by some of that money for future security updates and support. I did really enjoy this book. It is quite short probably not much more than a hundred pages. It's an interesting subject and certainly makes you think.
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