* Keith Medcalf: > On: Saturday, 22 October, 2016 17:41, Jean-Francois Mezei > <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: > >> On 2016-10-22 19:03, Keith Medcalf wrote: > >> > This does not follow and is not a natural consequence of sealing the >> little buggers up so that they cannot affect the Internet > >> Problem is that many of these gadgets want to be internet connected so >> mother at work can check on her kids at home, start the cooking, raise >> thermostat etc. > > This does not require that the devices be open to the Internet, nor > does it require that they are under the control of an Internet based > controller.
How would you know? It is perfectly reasonable to send a notification to a device by making a TCP connection to it. This is the way the Internet was built. You are not expected to sign a contract with the network operator for the target device before you can establish a connection to the device. The possibility of denial-of-service attacks is not a sufficient reason to change that model.