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

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Mon May 2 10:31:11 EDT 2016


At 10:43 PM 5/1/2016, Ron Garret wrote:
>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.

The CIA is already dusting people & things with synthetic
DNA to track them.  (No sh*t; check DARPA research from a
few years ago.)

Synthetic DNA is a heck of a lot cheaper.

BTW, has anyone followed the installation of car chargers?

I'd be willing to bet that these public car chargers log
every charge by some unique identifier from the car itself.

Heck, they don't even have to try very hard: simply log
the Bluetooth & Wifi id's.

Yes, a lot of people pay for gas by credit card (which is
obviously tracked), but most public car charging stations
are free (for now).

Of course, they have to get in line.  Tesla already logs
just about everything about your car & uploads the data
to Tesla.



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