On 11/15/11 13:19 , Ted Lemon wrote: > On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Joel jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote: >> plugging things into things seems like a rather short-sightt >> requirement for a relationship. > > I will resist the obvious rejoinder. And no, it is not > short-sighted. Assuming that physical user interfaces are likely to > become obsolete in favor of something else is simply not consistent > with reality.
A decade and a half worth of bluetooth security associations including really bad ones says otherwise. Personal devices by in large are shedding data-ports where possible and especially for low speed interaction. > Physical UIs are easy to understand. Making someone > go to a configuration page on your router is hard to understand. And I see that as a usable outcome, as rather unlikely. > I > think in fact that one of the reasons we fail in security on the > Internet is precisely that we fail to understand how people interact > with UIs, and design protocols that require UIs with which most > people cannot successfully interact. As a consumer I want to bring the thing home, turn it on, and have it work. > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list > [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
