Making Smart Homes Secure and Private

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Rather than expose your smart home device data and voice commands “to the cloud” (i.e., to large tech titans as well as smart product manufacturers), this talk demonstrates how you can maintain complete privacy over it. The secret is to run a local WebThings Gateway (the software is free and open source). It provides desirable privacy by not sending data nor commands outside your home, and secure remote management (using any browser) is still available over https, but only to you and your family.

Kathy will show off her own smart home, and describe how easy it is to set up your own gateway. Then she will demonstrate the simplicity of MicroBlocks for building your own “smart devices”, such as motion sensors, temperature sensors, door/window sensors, pushbuttons, lights, and more.


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  • Date: 16 Sep 2020
  • Time: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) Canada/Eastern
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  • London, Ontario
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  • Starts 10 September 2020 12:30 PM
  • Ends 16 September 2020 05:30 PM
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Kathy Giori Kathy Giori of Head of Global Partnerships and Outreach, MicroBlocks

Biography:

Kathy fills her desk with hardware, especially microcontroller boards that can be programmed using MicroBlocks, a learning tool for physical computing. At Mozilla, she worked on the WebThings Project, and is helping to spin out the project to be managed by a non-profit. She has experience bridging open communities with industry to drive faster innovation. She is super keen on equity of access to a good (STEM) education, across the globe, which is part of what drives her strong desire to support MicroBlocks. Prior to Mozilla, she held senior roles at Arduino.org, Qualcomm Atheros, and many more. She received her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and her master's in EE from Stanford. When not at a computer, she can usually be found exploring the great outdoors of northern California.