Escape From The Wearables World, IT Edition
July 21st, 2014What brings these happy thoughts to the surface was an interesting piece in Wired yesterday (July 21) about a wearable vendor's efforts to focus on context in making its device more valuable. It's a terrific goal, but the more IT allows these devices to access, collect and manipulate sensitive data, the more valuable those databases will be to cyberthieves and corporate spies for your direct rivals. In IT, greater convenience often means greater risk, something vendor slides somehow always forget. I am not suggesting a sci-fi plot where these devices learn all about us and then take over the planet and make humans into their slaves. (Dawn of the Wearable World? The Wearables War?) But a few security limits wouldn't be out of line.Read more...