The Internet of Things (“IoT”) has arrived, generating an ever expanding range of privacy invading and data gathering technology. The networking of appliances, electronics, and personal assistants loaded with proprietary code allows pervasive tracking and monitoring of customers at a finer level of granularity then ever before. Yet recent news has shown that many of these implementations are severely deficient in regards to security, an ever pressing consumer concern in an increasingly tech-literate populace. Thus the challenge for the free software movement, and opportunity for vendors who want a common easy to work with platform with high security standards, is to create new or modify existing open platforms for internet of things connected devices which give consumers a choice and vendors a selling point. |