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At some point I wonder if we might not just start whitelisting domains instead. I think that it could be possible to design a UX that wouldn't be much of a hind
by Mirioron 7y ago
At some point I wonder if we might not just start whitelisting domains instead. I think that it could be possible to design a UX that wouldn't be much of a hindrance to using your computer and phone on the same network. Eg any websites you deliberately visit get added to the whitelist, same with the other services you choose to use.
The amount of mostly unintentional (by the user) data transfers is out of hand.
- Silhouette 7y agoAt some point, a combination of manual/explicit reputation tagging and a web-of-trust system might become a plausible defence against a lot of these user-hostile connections. If your corporate site, where you advertise your new high-end TVs and laptops, starts triggering warnings in all your visitors' browsers that it might be associated with malware and falling off all the SERPs for similar reasons, you're going to stop loading it with junk pretty quickly (and its trust score will improve pretty quickly as a direct result). Likewise, if your smart device tries to phone home and home has acquired negative rep, maybe that connection gets blocked automatically at the firewall. We'd need a system that was guided by interested/aware participants who are unlikely to be successfully gamed and that mostly "just worked" for average users, but we've managed to build those in other contexts before so it doesn't seem completely out of the question.
- myrakle 7y agoActually, white listing is a better idea. You can white list with the PCWRT router too.
- egdod 7y agoAnd then everybody starts collecting data via AWS or whatever.
- Mirioron 7y agoEven then, can't you tailor the whitelisting in a way where it only whitelists specific services on AWS? You could even make it timed so that other IOT devices can't exploit it.