Re: What we need for the Internet of Stings

[Nala Ginrut]

Richard Stallman writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> Most of the devices offered for the "internet of things" are designed
> to mistreat the users.  They communicatte with the user only via the
> manufacturer's server, which means the manufacturer records all
> commands sent to the device and all responses.

Yes, and the firmware are mostly closed.
Let alone the ethics concern of software freedom, this situation causes
many issues in embedded development. Comparing to the prominent area as
web development, the situation makes the embedded development experience poor.

> That is part of why I call it the "internet of stings".
>
> To make these devices respect users' freedom, they ought to be
> designed with standard _local_ interfaces that can talk directly
> with the user's own computer.  Of course, if the software in the device
> is ever to be upgraded, it must be free software.
>
> If the device is designed that way, it may be fine for it to use
> any free kernel you would use in a computer.

I have a plan to offer more embedded software projects to the free
software land. And my projects can work with my web framework GNU
Artanis so that the IoT can be freed from the device to the server. But
I have to make good commercial plan first, I hope my plan can stay longer.

Best regards.


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