*Hi All,*
I am Interested in discussions related to rapid adoption of open
wireless access for low bandwidth "internet of things" and "wearable"
devices. Specifically the possibility of limiting these Low Bandwidth
devices to HTTPS/SSL to address consumers valid concerns that their Open
WiFi might expose them to significant consequences such as:
* Being sued by copyright trolls for thousands of dollars
* Having "their" secure internet connection crippled by their ISP
* Having men with guns break down their door and holding their wife
and kids at gun point while looking for a pedefile or worse.
Frankly that's just too much FUD "Potential Pain" to justify more than a
few % of non technical Consumers enabling open WiFi. That's a HUGE
PROBLEM for an organization who's stated goal is to get large
percentages of consumers to enable transparent & reliable Open WiFi
roaming on their internet connection.
Fortunately, 99% of the FUD related to Consumers enabling Open WiFi is
limited to high bandwidth activities like Internet Browsing & Video
Streaming (Download), and Media Servers (Upload). That provides Open
WiFi advocates with an opportunity to provide consumers with the option
to enable very low risk LBO-WiFi (Low Bandwidth Open WiFi).
*Consumers Pull Rapid Adoption,
Organizations Can't Push it!*
Allowing consumers to enable safe & highly desirable Transparent "Out of
the Box" and "Roaming" internet connections for their Wearable and M2M
devices flips Consumers Pain vs Gain equation firmly in favor of "YES"
its good to share! Thus adoption of Open WiFi would be positively linked
to Consumers rapid adoption of low bandwidth Wearable & M2M devices
instead of their FEAR of the consequences of enabling Broadband Open
Wifi Access.
My decades long experience with consumer adoption of new technologies at
fortune 500 technology companies has taught me that rapid adoption only
occurs when Consumers are DRIVEN by the opportunity to make their life
simpler. Technologies that are not an obvious YES are a defacto NO,
maybe latter, and thus take the slow boat to no where. Thus the general
consensus is that If your not growing bigger, faster than your
competitors, your just going to be the meal that makes your competitor
even bigger and faster! Added to this is the reality that Tech Consumers
have learned that if they don't love something today, they are better
off taking the dreaded maybe latter stance.
/Smart market penetration guru's drive hard to always have the features
today that encourage consumers to say yes today!//
/
I believe that Low Bandwidth Open WiFi is the feature that will support
exponentially adoption of Open WiFi "Today". Ultimately that
exponential, Internet Of Things, driven adoption will provide open
wireless advocates with the opportunity for exponential adoption of
Broadband Open Wireless access once Consumers are convinced it's safe!
That's called boiling the frog and brand recognition. First secure brand
Loyalty & Trust in the lowlands before you attempt to storm the heavily
defended Peak! By heavily defended peak I mean taking on the fortune 500
ISP's, Cell Phone & Copyright behemoths with rocks and sticks! It's
arguably wiser to wait until you have a MOB of Consumers behind, or
better, ahead of you before making a frontal attack on such well
entrenched defenders of the status quo.
*No Solution is Without it's Challenges:*
Probably the biggest challenge facing rapid consumer adoption of Low
Bandwidth Open WiFi is decisively addressing Consumers concerns that
enabling Open WiFi will make their own devices and or internet
connection less reliable or secure.
Those concerns are easily addressed for Low Bandwidth devices by
implementing existing "Know Device DOS Protection" (KDDP) and HTTPS
security protocols which encrypt device sessions against drive by DOS
hackers after initially establishing open access. The net result of
implementing these Open-Secure WiFi security protocols is that it
eliminates global DOS attacks by preventing hackers from spoofing
devices that were already known to the access point before the hacker
started scanning for victims. Most drive by hackers live by the Big
dog, Big Fence code and thus leave you alone in favor of an easier
nearby target.
Know Device DOS Protection (KDDP) does not protect one time roaming Low
Bandwidth Open WiFi device sessions that were unfortunate enough to be
initiated and secured while a hacker was scanning the consumers WiFi.
This roaming DOS capability has no impact on preexisting known
connections. Thus the consumers existing "known" device connections are
still protected by the bandwidth limitations enforced by their access point.
The bottom line is that KDDP on Low Bandwidth Open WiFi device
connections provides consumers with better DOS protection than they have
on their existing "secured" Broadband WiFi. That's good enough to
encourage "Most" consumers with Wearable and M2M devices to "Enable" Low
Bandwidth Open WiFi.
*The underlying Technologies are Available Today*!
All of the Low Bandwidth Open WiFi security features I have described
above are available as components in various open source WRT router
modules and thus are already technically available to integrate into a
solution. The initial effort thus revolves around quickly agreeing on an
initial KISS LBO-WiFi feature set while in parallel integrating those
features into an open source build which can be releases as a defacto
standard (Example) upon which an international standard can be published.
*Why Me, Why Now?*
Having been a founding member behind the standardization the IDE, ATAPI
and SATA storage protocols, which have shipped more storage devices than
Mc Donalds have sold burgers, I have a unique perspective on How & Why
such standardization is an essential precursor to the wide adoption of
capabilities in the consumer product space. I see the internet of things
access to the internet at the same inflection point as the PC access to
storage was in the 80's where the simple IDE standard won out over the
more complicated and expensive to adopt SCSI interface. Eventually IDE,
ATAPI & SATA provided 90% of the functionality of SCSI but we got their
by incrementally "Boiling the Frog" with only as much functionality as
needed to address 90% of consumers needs.
* Low Bandwidth Open WiFi provides a rare opportunity to rapidly grow
Open WiFi adoption to >70% by leveraging consumers rapidly growing
desire to simplify transparent WiFi connection for their Wearable &
M2M devices.
* Low Bandwidth Open WiFi addresses Consumers legitimate security
concerns related to enabling Broadband Open WiFi.
* The technology needed to implement secure Low Bandwidth Open WiFi
already exists as open source components in use by most existing
consumer access point / routers manufacturers.
* Low Bandwidth Open WiFi is by far the easiest way to rapidly
increase adoption rates of Broadband Open WiFi.
Kind Regards,
Tom Hanan
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