Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast, your source for policy rants and raves from Tech Freedom,

your Washington, D.C. advocate for the freedom to tinker and innovate. On today's show,

cybersecurity and the Internet of Things, 2015 was the year of the

hack with major cyber attacks on Sony, federal agencies, health care providers, really

dominating the news cycle in many respects. And as more and more of our devices get connected

to the internet, the problem becomes more acute.

Joining me in our DC studio to discuss this is Shane Too's. She's a visiting fellow at the American

Enterprise Institute's Center for Internet Communications and Technology Policy, where she

primarily focuses on cybersecurity and internet governance issues. You could check out her work

at Tech PolicyDaily.com.

Shane, thank you for joining me.

Thanks, Evan.

I'm so excited.

I've so enjoyed the podcast.

Well, we're happy to have you.

So at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the hot topic really was connected

cars, connected household products. Explain to our listeners, what is

the Internet of Things? So the Internet of Things is really just the connection to the devices.

It's an IP base. Think about the numbers, the zeros and ones, you know, that say that,

basically they're like small children saying, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here a lot. So depending on what they're like small children saying I'm here I'm here I'm here a lot so depending on

what they're using to broadcast whether it's you know a Bluetooth or what you know Wi-Fi

capability they're looking for something to connect to and then share information off that device

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