And a happy New Year right back Peter :)
Moore's law is the killer as I see it, and as the Internet of things
gathers pace I think the traditional demarcations between security and
safety will start to blur and dissolve.
I wrote an oped piece here, if anyone on the list is interested.
http://criticaluncertainties.com/2013/12/20/the-kettle-of-doom/
What are we all going to do when 'everything' is running Linux?
Cheers,
Matthew Squair
MIEAust, CPEng
Mob: +61 488770656
Email; Mattsquair_at_xxxxxx
Web: http://criticaluncertainties.com
On 16 Jan 2014, at 9:40 pm, Peter Bernard Ladkin <
ladkin_at_xxxxxx
Hi folks, Happy New Year to everyone!
- Peter Neumann asked me to write a short piece for the Risks Forum about
the Bookout/Toyota
events. I haven't got around to it yet. Does someone else feel the call?
- The SCSC SSS'14 program is out and available on the SCSC WWW site. John
Knight is going to be
giving a Keynote, then chairing a panel session, on safety standards. 2014
is the year in which
maintenance of IEC 61508 is likely to start. And, I presume I shall find
out Monday, the year in
which the revision of EN 50128, the railway control systems standard, sank.
- Security is increasingly involved with safety. Not least so in embedded
systems. Martyn pointed
out to me an op-ed piece by Bruce Schneier in which he is very worried
about embedded-system
security, for very good reasons which he lays out. He is mostly concerned
about routers. But we
worked a few years ago in a research project with major automobile and
-component manufacturers on a
largely-software-configurable road-vehicle line, doing the threat analysis
for the loading of SW in
the field (that is, at maintenance stations). I am thankful it is finally
becoming an issue.
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/theres-no-good-way-to-patch-the-internet-of-things-and-thats-a-huge-problem/
- I note that Embedded World in Nürnberg (Nuremberg) is in a couple weeks,
a favorite of Chris
Hills and Nicholas McGuire. I didn't see much in the program about the
matters concerning Schneier.
- Off-topic but related. Sticking with matters that concern Schneier, I am
very concerned about the
situation described in the Snowden revelations. I am preparing a piece
about the consequences for
society of subverting Internet communications protocols - I suggest they
are by no means good and
the public debate I have seen so far give them short shrift and I think
this is even less good. But
it is not ready for distribution. Since November I have been maintaining a
collection of links to
published articles and other matter, which I update on a roughly weekly
basis, for a seminar at
Bielefeld in which we are discussing the issues. Others here might find it
useful. The URL is
stable; the contents not
http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Discussions/CommPrivSurvRefsWS2013-14.pdf
PBL
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Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld,
33594 Bielefeld, Germany
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