The Resurrecting Duckling — What Next?

Abstract

I’ll start with a summary of the resurrecting duckling security policy model for those who haven’t seen it. It regulates interactions between wireless gadgets: the scenario is one where you have plenty of items that all have a microprocessor in them, like everything has nowadays. The claim is that what is going to happen next is that they will all have a transceiver in them so that they will be able to talk to each other and they will be able to be peripherals of each other and exchange messages. You won’t have situations like your camera having to have a microphone inside to do the voice annotation, because you can use something else that already has a microphone — like your telephone for example, or your tape recorder - and just use the microphone in that to send sound to the things that need the voice annotation, and so on. So everything can use everything else as a peripheral.