{"id":70289,"date":"2019-03-20T06:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70289"},"modified":"2019-03-20T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:26:54","slug":"internet-of-dangerous-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70289","title":{"rendered":"Internet Of Dangerous And Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not really looking forward to the “Internet of Things”.<\/p>\n

Partly it’s because of the nightmarish security risks – which we’re already seeing.<\/p>\n

Partly I think it’s because it promotes a formo of “connectedness” that isn’t very connected.<\/p>\n

But mostly it’s because, workign in the software industry as I do, I know that software doesn’t just work<\/em>. The more complex it is, the longer it takes to debug, and the more byzantine the errors.<\/p>\n

In fact, the recent Ethiopian Air and Lion Airways crashes have reinforced my desire to fly only in planes controlled by hydraulics and, if possible, mechanical cables.<\/p>\n

Because the problems aren’t even especially new<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not really looking forward to the “Internet of Things”. Partly it’s because of the nightmarish security risks – which we’re already seeing. Partly I think it’s because it promotes a formo of “connectedness” that isn’t very connected. But mostly it’s because, workign in the software industry as I do, I know that software doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70295,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70289\/revisions\/70295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}