678- Networking Us for the Internet of Bodies (IoB) – What’s Your MAC Address? (Free)

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“You put your whole self in You put your whole self out You put your whole self in And you shake it all about You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around That`s what it`s all about!” Crrow777“There is no doubt… it is time to turn this place we call the world around. And right now, that is what it is all about! So, put your whole self in and shake it all about.” Funny how so many pieces of the “TECH-TAKE-OVER” began to move on the game-board right before 2020. Among them is the dream of IoB. Funny how a search for the term “IoB” returns so many associations. It is the name of a corporation and URL. It returns digital banking hits. And it returns the “Internet of Behaviors”, among others. I had to get very specific to finally achieve the return I was after, which is “Internet of Bodies”. This, of course, refers to you and me being networked, with or without permission, as part of the “IoT”, or Internet of Things. Luckily, most of us, if not all of us, have a MAC address now. Don’t you remember applying for the privilege of obtaining a personal MAC address that goes everywhere you do? What is a MAC address, you ask? A MAC address (Media Access Control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use in communications within a network segment. Of the people tested by our guests in this episode, they found 100% of them returned a MAC address emanating from their bodies! In other words, these fine folk are now potential nodes in a network they did not opt into, or know anything about! ( Read more… )

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