The dark side of the gadgetization

The number of "smart" devices in the service and in everyday life is growing steadily. So, according to Kaspersky Laboratory , on average, on average, there are 3.3 personal electronic devices with the Internet access and the possibility of storing a large volume of information. According to this indicator, Russia was in the same positions with Mexico and China (however, from the leader, Saudi Arabia from its 4.3 devices for the family, not too far behind).

Illustration: Kaspersky Laboratory

According to Kaspersky Laboratory, laptops and netbooks are used by each second family (53.2%), the same with smartphones (52.5%), and the tablet PC has already acquired 10.7%, and they are going to purchase the same device in the next six months.

The increase in the number of gadgets is obviously caused by users' need to have instant access to personal data and documents, to be able to use comfortable viewing and working with them in any situation, and the need to stay “in touch”, which is currently taking into account all types of communications (e -mail, messages, Skype), more likely to be the possibility of being constantly connected to the Internet than simply to be available mobile communications. However, the Internet is necessary not only for people. The Internet seems to be becoming more and more necessary for gadgets themselves.

On the Internet, TVs, game consoles, e-books, MP3 players, watches, radio receivers and even cars and refrigerators are “climbing”. Passing the software for which, as a rule, all these devices are addressed to the Internet, it requires more and more often due to the features of the so-called “accelerated”, or “schem”-method of software development, which replaced the “waterfall method” (Waterfall).

Computer systems at the early stage were owed to their development primarily to the military. And the military, as you know, love to negotiate everything in advance. The programs that the US Department of Defense ordered programmers were discussed until the very little things before they began to develop. This became known as a “waterfall” method of software development. With the growth of civic computerization, programmers encountered competition and began to more and more often realize that by the time of their release their programs were already outdated.

As open platforms develop (PC, Android) and such a type of software as SaAS (Software as Service, as an example-Apple AppStore) programmers changed their approach: development went according to an accelerated method (or “scrum”-method), and all the necessary changes in the steel were made in the way-for this it was intensely interacted Users. In other words, in the development of a modern one -mentioned chance of a mistake in the sacrifice of increasing the speed and learning of the developers themselves.

Open platforms and “holes” in security, which are considered not an emergency, as before, but ordinary and even natural affairs, led to a rapid increase in harmful software on all platforms. Of course, the star of the last year stands out, of course, the Android operating room, which gains more and more popularity not only among honest users, but also among cybercriminals.

The alarms are caused not so much by viruses and harmful software, the growth of which is noted by specialists of the Kaspersky Laboratory. It seems that excessive dependence of feedback devices can carry a direct danger to people. In addition to harmless wristwatch and radio receivers, cars begin more and more on updates. Computer systems in such machines control transmission, diagnostic systems, inhibition, even more often even steering, and the danger of excessive dependence on GPS data has long been talked . Users of the new cars also note the general deterioration of their wear resistance, which, it seems, was also sacrificed to “gadgetization”.

A few years ago, a group of American scientists on the successful remote hacking of a new type of pacemaker, which also provides for the possibility of reprogramming in Wi-Fi, was widely publicized .