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IoT security: Lessons we can learn from the evolution of road safety – Help Net Security

In the world we know today, road safety is carefully enforced to the point where we take it for granted. But it wasn’t always thus. People simply weren’t aware of the risks. When my father was a boy there were no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple zones in cars, nor any roll cages to protect passengers. Indeed, there were few comforts such as radios or heaters and, as my father explained, some people kept warm in wintertime by drilling a hole in the floor of the car to let the hot exhaust fumes waft into the cabin.

My father’s description of the near-total disregard for road safety in a relatively new mode of transport made me think about cybersecurity and how many of the issues we face today as professionals also relate to the interaction of user behaviour, devices, systems and rules.

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