[Cryptography] USB 3.0 authentication: market power and DRM?

[Ron Garret]

On May 1, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure I like that idea though, because now it means every
> last outlet in your home has electronic devices listening to it
> and people have to trust that that's all they're doing.  Of course
> this whole discussion is about establishing that trust, but it's
> still true that it's easier to trust a copper wire screwed into
> a terminal socket with a hardware-store screw than it is to trust
> a chip with logic you can't see, made by somebody you don't know.

The day is not far off when every hardware-store screw will have an NFC chip in it.

rg