Ari Gesher and Kipp Bradford on security and the Internet of Things

In this episode of our newly renamed Hardware Podcast, I talk with Ari Gesher, engineering ambassador at Palantir Technologies, and Kipp Bradford, research scientist at the MIT Media Lab.

Gesher is the co-author of The Architecture of Privacy: On Engineering Technologies that Can Deliver Trustworthy Safeguards. Bradford is co-author of Distributed Network Data: From Hardware to Data to Visualization, and he’s spoken twice at Solid.

Discussion points:

• The difference between security and privacy
• Ari’s notion of what it means to be “polite” in a world where everything is recorded
• The need and rationale for standards and protocols for IoT devices

Links to stuff mentioned in this episode:

• The Heartbleed security bug that appeared in OpenSSL
• The Justine Sacco Twitter incident
• William Langewiesche’s Vanity Fair articles on the Air France and ValuJet crashes