Re: The Physical Web

IMHO that's in general very bad idea
Why on Earth people think that IoT should be discoverable?

BTW, fresh vulnerability in wind turbines which allows hackers to switch a power grid off via standard CSRF attack: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/24/wind_turbine_blown_away_by_csrf_vulnerability/

07.04.2015, 08:17, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>:
>  Andrew Betts showed this to me when he was in town a few weeks ago:
>    https://github.com/google/physical-web
>    http://google.github.io/uribeacon/
>
>  Looks interesting, and hitting about the right point; more usable than (for example) QR codes, if it’s done right.
>
>  Domenic / Alex, do you know the folks inside G doing this? Would be interesting to think/talk about some of the problems they identify in the Technical Overview.
>
>  In particular, I wonder if they should be using link relations to cut down on their metadata issue.
>
>  Tangentially - people in the IETF have been talking about putting URLs into DNS...
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  --
>  Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

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