The Internet of Hackable Things

TL;DR

The paper discusses the security risks of the Internet of Things, emphasizing the importance of education as a key strategy to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect privacy in an increasingly connected world.

Contribution

It highlights the critical need for security education to address the vulnerabilities introduced by the widespread connectivity of everyday objects.

Findings

IoT increases security and privacy risks

Education is essential for mitigating IoT vulnerabilities

Calls for integrating security education into IoT development

Abstract

The Internet of Things makes possible to connect each everyday object to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. From a security and privacy perspective, this tsunami of connectivity represents a disaster, which makes each object remotely hackable. We claim that, in order to tackle this issue, we need to address a new challenge in security: education.